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[quote=Anonymous]Every Friday night my aunt and uncle hosted my grandparents and my family for dinner.   We lived with a single parent (parents died and  my mom’s single sibling adopted us/ never got married).

My aunt and uncle had the means to pay for it, they usually had someone cook the meal or we ordered take out.  They never allowed anyone else to pay.

Honestly, this is a memory I cherish now as an adult.  There are fun stories that came from those nights.

When we went to college and one of my grandparents died they continued it. Their kids were younger  and they talk about the dinners still too.  I babysat for their kids, but Friday nights were sacred.

We all lived in the same area 5-10 minute drive maximum between all three homes.  I now live with my family states away from both sides (my side and my spouses side).  I am so grateful I had a childhood filled with family including these dinners.  I feel for my kids who won’t have that experience.

Could you have them come to your house sometimes?  Like others say your husband take the kids sometimes?

When I had an event in high school I would sometimes miss the dinners or stop by before I left.  When I missed them I came home to left overs from the meal.

If my aunt and uncle had an important event on Friday (rarely) I would babysit my cousins, my aunt and grandmother would come over for a take out dinner with all of us and leave early OR my aunt would take her parents/ mom out for a meal.

Could you ask them if you might drop the kids occasionally and you and your husband go for dinner?

My grandmother is on hospice now so maybe I’m just being sentimental, but what I wouldn’t give for one more of those dinners.

Life is short.  I wouldn’t stop them all together but you don’t always have to attend.  Once kids activities start to ramp up maybe do them less or invite them to yours for breakfast before say a soccer match or something.

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