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[quote=Anonymous]I’ll try to make this as concise as possible. Here goes!

We hosted a small gathering this year. We don’t typically host, our house is small so ILs always host. Because they are in the middle of some kitchen remediations, we offered to host them and in-town BIL and SIL and their three kids for dinner. We let everyone know that while we were more than happy to host, because of space constraints, it wouldn’t be the same spread ILs offer, but we’d make the most of it; small would be better than nothing at all, which was the alternative.

We cooked a smaller spread but everything was nice. We even had special offerings that were catered towards the children. We let ILs know ahead of time what would be on the menu, to let SIL know in case she wanted to bring something additional for her one picky child. ILs asked what to bring, we told them a dessert would be nice, and thought all was well.

ILs show up and MIL has this large sale platter of fruit with yogurt dip, and requests we refrigerate it, it’s for SILs kids, because they like fruit with each meal. Short on space, we sort of disassembled the thing so we could put the dip in the fridge, and then put the covered fruit in our unheated garage to stay cold, letting SIL know where everything was so she could prepare it for her kids if needed, also letting the room know, if they wished to have fruit. I’ll admit, I was kind of annoyed to have to deal with the thing, especially considering I was already stressed trying to make a nice dinner for DH family in our small house.

Well, this upset MIL who called ME unappreciative and rude for “attacking” her with my anger as we “ruined” her fruit platter by leaving it in the garage and taking it apart. DH tried his best to talk her down, but she’s still really upset about it, according to SIL who DH had coffee with this AM. Did I handle this wrong? [/quote]

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