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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the PP with the, ahem, stomach flu.

It's not that this really is any objectively big deal, and it's not that I don't value family. I do. I think you can express that value in different ways.

It's no big deal because yeah, the kids can eat other food for awhile. If it were just me and DH, I'm sure we could punt through it without any fuss. But kids, especially picky eaters, at an emotionally sensitive time when people are peobably already feeling defensive, or at the very least stretched thin?

I'd bet dollars to doughnuts one of my kids (despite prep) would forget and say "this isn't as good as your chicken nuggets," or "why can't you make the good pizza?" I mean, it's 5 days of family with a new baby in the great beyond. They're going to be tired and stressed too. They won't be able to be on best behavior for the whole time, even if trying not to be rude. And they might meltdown, or cry -- and there's probably already some discussion going on with the new baby's family, and grandma is goign to feel like she has to stick up for someone, and . . . ugh.

I can value family by spending some extra money just this year in order to keep the smouldering branch of my picky kids (I know my kids) from landing in that tinderbox,a nd I can do it in a way that keeps any breath of judgement about anyone's choices out of the mix. I just wouldn't be able to have that much control if we went and could not get away.

No judgement on anyone that would go,t hough. You know your own kids, marriage, family.[/quote]

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