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[quote=Anonymous]We are about 8 minutes from DH's parents and 8 minutes from his sister and her family. We all have keys to each others places and help with pets when needed. We would never barge in/would always text, but we are all welcome to drop in. For 20 years we were across the country no where near family so this is a welcome change.

Before we moved we had a conversation where his mother was like "I am here for you. This is a dream come true. Whatever you need. Just ask" and she's good for it without guilting us.

We get kids off to school ourselves and DH's mother picks the kids up 4 days a week and takes them either to her place where I meet them, or our place, or to their after school activities.

We have three kids and she heavily schedules them in sports/arts but they like it. When she starts new classes she pays for them. She often buys them dinner or snacks and if they need clothes/anything she will often buy them things.

I tell her to make a tab/let us know asap if we need to pay for something, but she often declines. On our own we wouldn't be scheduling them so much so in some ways she costs us a lot of money (tennis, swimming, martial arts, gymnastics tap/ballet) but we are excited to finally live near her and her overscheduling created my great DH so it's more than fine. We no longer pay for childcare, so that money goes to their classes.

In a pinch we can drop them off for a sleepover if we need to get in to work early the next day or have an event to go to.

DH's dad isn't so into all the events/chauffeuring but he has developed a special relationship with our dog where he hangs out with him during the day and works on projects around our house.

The inlaws owe us nothing but we are so happy to have them and we owe them so much. I really love them.[/quote]

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