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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP needs to come define "catering to". [/quote]

I agree.  Maybe the ILs don’t really require that much, but as the host OP feels to do a lot of things that they don’t expect or demand anyway.  This is common in our household, for example. One of us feels that as the host you always have to do x, y or z and the other doesn’t — especially with family.  OP wouldn’t be the first person to take things on on her own accord and then complain.

I think it’s pretty clearnwhat’s going on: OP just doesn’t want them around when her parents are visiting. That’s it. [/quote]

OP is simply asking for the period "on or within a few days of her b-day" with her overseas parents. The rest is open for visit.

So what you said is not exactly "pretty clear". It's clear if you disregard the narrative and substitute it with a DIL-hating alternative, which is pretty clear what’s going on.[/quote]

Right.  In other words, OP does want to do something for the kid's birthday -- and wants to exclude the ILs from it.  How nice of her.[/quote]

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