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[quote=Anonymous]I'm in this situation, and our solution is that we stay in a hotel with a pool and onsite breakfast.  We wake up, eat at the hotel, drive to my mom's and have "breakfast" with her, something the size of what my kid consider a snack (half an english muffin with jam, or a sliced apple to share).  Then we spend some time together for a few hours, and then I tell her I'm taking the kids back to "swim and nap".  She approves of them exercising to burn of all those calories (in the half apple).  We find a restaurant or take a picnic to a playground, and then come back for dinner.  We stop for ice cream on the way back to the hotel after dinner, or I'll have a treat waiting for them in the car.  My kids know that when you visit Grandma you get dessert every night (not our norm).

When we've tried to be flexible, she has tried but she just doesn't get what we actually need.  One time when my kids were pretty small I insisted on lunch.  She was like "well but it will be a mess, who will clean it up" an I assured her I would.  My older kid, who was 5, finished and needed the bathroom, so I told him to put his cup and plate in the sink and go, and was wiping my younger kids' hands and getting him out of his booster seat when my mom came in and was like "I can't believe you promised to clean up and there's a mess in my kitchen".  The "mess" was the one child sized plate and cup that were in the sink for the 5 minutes between the time one kid finished eating and the other.

Based on my experience, I wouldn't tie the hotel thing to food in any way.  I'd simply say "we've decided to do this". [/quote]

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