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[quote=Anonymous]I never could get a handle on this!  We have family visitors almost every other weekend.  If you can't say no to them, lower your standards for their visits.  Stop cleaning for them or treating them list guests.  Ask them to help.  Once we had our second child, we dreaded the visits a lot less because we took more advantage of free babysitting/time to do projects around the house.  If you plan on another child, it will be a long time before their desire to visit wanes.  Where possible, push off visits for a while (i.e. this is a really busy time, how about xx) until their expectations are lowered.  For the set that was more stressful to host, we would push off and then suggest a quick overnight trip meeting in the middle.  The kids loved a quick road trip and I loved not having them in my house :-).  Now our parents have some health concerns which make them want to visit more and we're sucking it up because we realize they won't be around forever.  Really, as long as you aren't stressed by it, it's annoying for you but priceless for your kids.[/quote]

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