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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just hire a sitter[/quote]

Yes but on 3 days notice I am scrambling. This is something I would have liked to know about before booking so so could have taken the kids or interviewed sitters and found a good fit [/quote]

If you want to abandon your kids for two weeks that’s on you but clearly she does not want to be responsible for them.[/quote]

I cannot help but feel the same thing. Anybody would think a 12-day vacation away from the kids these days is appropriate is also somebody who steamrolled grandma into saying yes in the first place. I would cancel that trip and get serious family therapy.[/quote]
This is just ridiculous. Plenty of people are happy to watch their grandkids for a couple of weeks.[/quote]

Not my parents or inlaws. This type of ask is not that common. [/quote]

Yes, it is. Your personal parents and inlaws are immaterial.[/quote]

Well OPs own parents are MIL aren't stepping up so, doesn't look good for her either. [/quote]

YUP. And if MIL so awful and OP’s parents are so great, why wasn’t that the arrangement or the ask in the first place? It makes more sense for two grandparents to take this on than a single grandparent. Hmm….[/quote]

My parents are unable. One is deceased abs the other is disabled in a wheelchair. The reason she was staying in our house is because the camp in less than a mile from our home and we had neighbors/family friends driving them to sleepover and go to birthday parties on weekends. I also had a babysitter helping 20 hours. It was set up so she didn’t have to watch the kids really at all. [/quote]

Sounds about right. Having multiple sets of grandparents willing and able to swoop in for this enormous ask isn't as common as a few posters on here seem to think. OP is struggling the way many people do because this is real life. Many people struggle just to find child care for the summer, let alone a 2 week international vacation. When the child care falls through, even the best laid plans inevitably blow up.[/quote]

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