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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd point out to the posters suggesting inviting MIL over instead to avoid the 2-4 hours of driving that hosting someone is often as much work and disruptive to your schedule. I know that I always clean my house before my MIL comes and would not want to entertain a visit while I was under work deadlines/husband traveling. I also would not want her coming over right after I got back from my own work travel because when DH is on his own with the kids the house looks like it was ransacked even when it was perfectly clean before I left. [/quote]

This makes me so grateful for my in-laws!  When DH was gone for a year, my husband’s aunt would call or text and ask what was a good time to come.  She would come for lunch, and usually work it out with DHs brother to drive together.  The two of them would go to Costco before they came and bring enough food to feed twenty people :).  Then they would set it all up, eat, talk with th kids and play with them, then clean everything up and put the food in the fridge.  My brother in law even learned how to make balloon animals that year so he would always have something to do with the kids.

It would have been so hard to have parents and in-laws who expected me to always come to them, or to have a perfectly clean house and “host” them when they came.

I’m sorry, OP.  I wish your family was more thoughtful.[/quote]

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