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[quote=Anonymous]We live on the East Coast. Mother in law lives in LA and so does FIL
MIL and Father in Law are divorced and FIL is remarried. They live 5 miles apart. We always stay with FIL and his wife because he has a huge house and MIL lives in an apartment with roommates. They host all the Xmas activities and MIL is always invited and comes to about half of the parties. We also take MIL out to dinner X-mad eve. We generally split our time between them. We have two young children under 4.

We are traveling December 19-29 to LA.
So today MIL tells me she is disappointed that she doesn’t really experience waking up with the kids with the tree in the house and all the sweet home traditions like baking, etc. She sends us a text and asks if it’s ok to come after Thanksgiving to visit us. To be honest, from now until we leave for our trip we have holiday parties, commitments, etc pretty much 3-4 times a week. The two weeks before we leave are always pretty chaotic and stressful getting ready for the holidays and our trip. I told her the best week to come is Thanksgiving week, any day since the kids have off school all week, our home will be decorated for the holidays, we have a light week because we don’t have plans and it’s basically the only time my husband isn’t dealing w an insane work schedule. He travels 3-4 days a week. She got pissed and wrote a pretty rude text back about how it’s not going to work and she wants to go on a girls weekend with her friends bc she’s stressed out.

How inclined would you be to accommodate her? Btw, we are paying for her flight and always do. She’s never had to buy a ticket to see us. We have a lot more money than she does so it’s fine but I feel like she’s asking too much and not considering when it would work for us. [/quote]

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