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[quote=Anonymous]Local grandparents who live down the street. They usually pick the kids up from school and walk home with them. They make us dinner 2x a week. They babysit on Friday nights and have a sleepover once a month. They give us 9 days a year to go on big vacations as a couple while they babysit. They love taking the kids one at a time and doing special things with them like baking cookies, a play, swim lessons, library story time. I also want to say that we have childcare and don't beg for help, this is all their own initiative.

It's wonderful and I can't imagine them being more helpful. We're eternally grateful. They're not pushy either.

I will say that this has caused tension with the inlaws. They want us to visit more to compensate how much my parents help us. They want more holidays. But I'm an only child and it's just not fair to give them more than 50% of the holidays. My parents go above and beyond all year and then get abandoned for Christmas? no way. I host a lot of holidays and invite inlaws, my parents, and dh's siblings. Inlaws want us to visit whereas my parents always defer to us and visit us.[/quote]

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