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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Help!  Got an email from MIL today asking * DH* what our plans are for Christmas.  In the email, MIL offered to host Christmas dinner or brunch at her house.  We're all local.  DH and I share a home email account, but my MIL either doesn't remember this, realize this and addresses the email to DH only, always.

So, I quickly responded to MIL myself with the idea that I'm also happy to host brunch here late morning.  Typically, my MIL has everything at her house and so we rarely spend holidays at our house.  I thought (selfishly) that it would be so nice to just have the in laws to our house for once.  They are retired, young grandparents and live about 30 minutes away.

Have I done something wrong by offering to host? My DH is angry that I offered to have brunch here...he thinks it's awful that I complain about going to his parents' house and this is my attempt to usurp his mom's control.  I'm just tired of packing up two young kids and spending every holiday at their house when I just want to stay at my own house...[/quote]

Sounds like DH knows what a brat MIL is going to be about it. When we started hosting, MIL would get restless at the lack of control and... leave. Whew![/quote]

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