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[quote=Anonymous]We take zero time off when they visit us. If we took time off for their visits, we literally could not visit them. I depleted all my leave twice with maternity leaves (and saved every ounce between them to cover the next). Right now I have 4 days built up and I'm using it to take the kids to my parents' for 4th of July (my H can't come because of work). He is welcome to use his leave to take the kids to his parents to make it even if he wants, but there's pretty much a snowball's chance he'd be willing to take that on solo.

His parents come once, at most, a year. We used to go there once a year. We continued to go to my parents once a year between kids because I worked from their house while my husband and parents took turns entertaining our one child. My parents come to us much more frequently - probably 6 times a year. Both sets are retired and money is not a barrier for either set. His are very tit-for-tat and think we should pack up the kids and come to them for every visit they make to us, but given there's a 5+ hour plane flight involved and multiple time zones, that hasn't worked so well the 2 times we tried it with just one kid. Not to mention it's just simply more costly for us to visit them with now having to buy 4 tickets and rent a car. They don't rent a car when they come here since we are Metro accessible.

We have yet to take a vacation since we've had kids because what leave/money we have has been spent to visit his parents. (Mine live a 5 hour drive.)[/quote]

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