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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you find a college student through your neighborhood FB? That would be my go-to in this situation. [/quote]
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New poster. Thought this (and an earlier "Just get a sitter" post) seem to be helpful, they're not. They're naive posts. Maybe your neighborhood has college students and sitters just sitting around waiting for a last-second job working SIX freaking days and nights--that is not at all the real world any more. This isn't one night out at dinner and a show. This is a vacation and they couple needs six days of coverage if they were to keep the 12-day trip and MIL will come for only six days.

Even if it weren't this long and this big a deal, there are just not teens and college kids, even in summer, who are available easily and want to babysit much anymore. Certainly not for a week.

OP, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry you and DH have to accommodate MIL and cut your trip shorts. There are some trips where six days is just not enough to make it worthwhile. I'm especially sorry your DH did not read his mother the riot act in a huge way and tell her she screwed you both royally by doing this, especially as you made so many excellent arrangements. She practically has nothing to do except sleep in the same house as the kids. I would have told her she has also cost you a fortune in lost fees, nonrefundable deposits etc. Or rather your DH should be telling her this.

Only if MIL has a medical issue she's been keeping from you both, and she's suddenly scared of being with the kids so long because of that--only then would I give her a pass and it would be genuine.

I hope you can salvage a good trip. The people here carping at you about taking a trip without the kids are likely the kind of parents who think "good" parents must take their children EVERYwhere. Nope. Couples need time alone, and you deserve a trip if it's one you've dreamed of and planned for so well as you clearly have. [/quote]

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