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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of drama.  Absolutely no help, even in an emergency.   [/quote]
Same here, sadly.[/quote]

Us, too.  Please, tell me, what's it like to have functional, financially and emotionally stable family?[/quote]

We have functional, financially and emotionally stable family who lives across the country but we visit with every 2-3 months.  Sometimes DH's parents come for 3-4 days and the FIL flies home to go back to work and MIL stays for a total of two weeks.  They're super helpful (a smidge into gender stereotypes).

- FIL will fix, hang, etc., anything.  He's down for any household project. 
- MIL will take the kids to the farmer's market
- One time they came a week before Halloween and when I came home from work MIL was sitting on a drop cloth spread out in the living room with both DD's stripped to their diapers, scooping out pumpkins and making a huge mess.  I would never have done that with them. 
- FIL will do tons of yard work
- They will read the same stories four times in a row
- MIL will bake breakfast muffins with the kids
- They clean up after themselves and encourage the kids to follow our rules
- They try to pay for groceries (we don't let them) and will pay for a couple of meals out[/quote]

How beautiful - we have my mom 20 minutes away and she helps us a ton but not like that! She's 70 years old still drives and lives independently so we don't want to overburden her with the kids, so we ask for help strategically, like when I'm traveling for work, she'll come to the house before they get home, take them to sports and generally serve as the adult in the house while they have a snack and do homework until DH comes home.  If and when I become a grandparent, I hope to be as helpful as possible to my kids, and would definitely be a little more proactive assuming I'm in good health. Amen[/quote]

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