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[quote=Anonymous]Father in law moved nearby several years ago to a 3 bedroom house. We have a larger 5 bedroom house. We had discussed how nice the situation would be as FIL could invite family over and we could host overflow guests since our house was bigger. This was pre kids and when I WOH. 
Since then, FIL converted 1 of his bedrooms in to an office leaving him with his bedroom and 1 guest room. I now WAH from our home office and we have 2 kids. Due to the economy, positions at my company are under scrutiny and those that under perform are let go so my home work environment must remain conducive to work.
FlL recently invited SIL, BIL, and their 2 sons out for a 1 week visit with the expectation that they would stay at our house.
DD will be 4 months at the time of the visit and may not yet sleep through the night. DS is 2 and still wakes up at night and has been waking up when the baby cries. I will just have come off an unpaid maternity leave (which we saved for)  but money will still be a bit tight. We will not have accrued much leave time for the New year yet and I am hesitant to take vacation so close to returning from maternity leave to host guests.
I am concerned that due to finances, job stressors, and the kids not sleeping through the night that hosting a family of 4 with 2 young kids for a week may be too much. DH agrees and told FIL and SIL. 
Were we reasonable in saying No? It's probably one more thing FIL will hold against me. FIL has decided he will host them at his house with just the one guest room. The kids will sleep on the floor in the living room on floor pillows.[/quote]

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