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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a PP noted, I think the relationship with your niece's mother is fragile.  The relationship you have with your SIL is not.  I'd either:
1.  Claim illness and skip the baby shower
2.  Tell niece's mom that you have a commitment between X-Y time and see if:
     a) work around that commitment
     b) let you leave niece at your home with a babysitter for a couple hours (that you pay for)
3.  If #2 won't work, I'd back out of the baby shower.[/quote]

I'm all for OP having a relationship with her niece and niece's mother (and have advocated previously in this thread for being honest about this with her own family), but I think some people are taking this to an extreme with the whole "the relationship is fragile, everything has to cater to the relationship" notion. OP already had the commitment to the shower before niece's mom asked her to babysit her niece, not the other way around. OP isn't bailing on this woman, she's simply not available. If this woman were so fragile that the concept of OP having a life that doesn't revolve around her and her daughter so that having to say no this time would destroy the relationship (which I don't get the impression is the case from OP, I think people are reading that into it), I think OP would need to rethink her relationship with this woman.[/quote]

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