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IL Re: And so it begins
My MIL is recently retired. She spent the summer at their summer house where she has a whole set of "summer" friends. A little voice in my head told me then that I would probably would get a big wake-up call from her in the fall. Well that time has come.
For T-giving have made arrangements to rent a house in Duck w/ them & my parents- any other family members are welcome as well, as the house is huge. The community has an indoor pool, we can walk to town and a fair number of businesses should still be open. Everyone has to travel and no one has to put up overnight guests- win-win! I thought this was a good solution to dealing with who goes where, who hosts, etc.
We are going on the post-Xmas-trip. St. Lucia, involves overnight layovers on our part, but we aren't leaving until a few days after Christmas, which was always one of my issues. I am not thrilled at the prospect but whatever.
So in the last 2 days she has e-mailed us about going up there the weekend before Christmas so we can see her side of the family. Um, no. We are spending a week with you @ Thanksgiving and doing some rather insane travel to spend 5 days w/ you immediately after Christmas. Obviously DH's reply that that would not be going, got her juices flowing because today she invited herself down for the pre-Halloween weekend. Um, no again. Your daughter already beat you & invited herself down for the following weekend. We already have plans for that weekend and I don't need overnight guests 2 weekends in a row. We will see you 2 weeks after that for the Thanksgiving trip.
I am just waiting for her to reply that she and FIL will be down the same weekend as SIL.
Re: IL Re: And so it begins
Having them stay @ a hotel is kind of ridiculous, seeing as we do have 2 empty bedrooms. They did right after Davis was born of course, but now there is no need. I just don't want or need weekends of back-to-back house guests, nor do I need them here 2-3 weeks before spending 5+ days with them.
ETA- even if they stayed in a hotel I wouldn't want them down that weekend, it would still involve eating 2 meals a day w/ them, entertaining them, etc.
I'm sorry
Well, when I started reading your post, I thought you were going to say she was moving down to be closer to you....so I guess it could be worse...right??
Back to back guests as the holiday season gets underway is too much.
miscarriage on 11/26/09 at 5w6d
ZOMG yes, that would be worse. Thank goodness for small favors in that she has lived in the same town her whole life and would never leave her island.