Vacation and Travel

I'm on a family vacation right now, and something has come up that I'm really struggling with. My in-law's have been talking about having my son spend summers with them since he was only a few months old (they live 10 hours away on the far western side of OH). We've told them that that's absolutely out of the question. After all, I'm a stay-at-home mom, what would I do in the summer without my son? And I hardly want to miss a summer of his growth and experiences.

Well, Thanksgiving is approaching and with it another in-law conundrum. To start with, sleeping at their house is extremely uncomfortable. I'm a very light sleeper and every year my husband and I try to cram ourselves into a full-sized bed. At home we sleep in a King so this is beyond cozy. Both of us feel as though we're sleeping on the edge of the bed and I have fallen off before. The bed is hard and creaky...neither of us sleep much when we stay there and we're always miserable.

Hubby and I have been having a discussion lately about whether or not to buy a DVD player for the car. We have a 10 hour (one-way) drive this Thanksgiving to get to the IL's house. We break it into 2 days (although there was a time when we did the whole thing in one exhausting day). So we've discussed getting a DVD player for the 20 hour car-time this year...but we're unsure. First of all I feel that the absence of the television helps build imagination and creativity.