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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here again

We did try to split it up as much as possible with MIL doing the evenings (4-7pm) and FIL doing the nights (7pm-8am) and the older kids went to friends over the weekend.  We even offered to have the nanny come on Saturday for the baby but they insisted they would be fine for one day and BIL came in to help them.

FIL's wife never had any kids - they got married when she was 50 and she's an only child so she doesnt even have nieces and nephews and I TOTALLY understand that she was overwhelmed and did not quite realized how much work it is.

FIL is incredibly capable - when he was in between jobs, he took care of our older kids and their cousins (ages 6, 4, 3, 3) for 2 weeks from 9-5 every day while they were between camp and school.

I guess I have become so used to changing sheets, sleeping in 4 hr increments, loading the kids in and out of the car that I dont realize how hard those things actually are.

I understand the feeling that it was tough, but I feel that anger and hostility is way too strong for 5 days of being inconvenienced (though I would NEVER say that to them)[/quote]

They are old, they are exhausted. I don't think the hostility is too strong. They wee probably pissed that they wee getting up at night, cleaning pee while you were having the time if your life.[/quote]

They shouldn't have accepted. [/quote]

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