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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - greetings from well north of nowhere!  I wasn't sure I should check back in but I guess there is enough interest that it is only fair, considering all the support I got (thanks guys!).  If I wanted to write a spinoff it would be titled 'hungry and tired in the north woods.'  It is day 3 and my kids have survived by eating a lot of snacks including all the GF junk food people keep giving them, the occasional piece of fruit or cheese stick, and a few clandestine turkey and pb/j sandwiches made on paper plates in our room and eaten down at the dock with a good hand washing thereafter (these were the rules of the road).  So pushing DH to get that one allowance has really saved us, because they have refused to eat any of the GF options (again, thanks to those who helped me decide this was reasonable).  Not that I can blame them.  One fact I failed to mention is that MIL is a bad cook in the best of circumstances, so combine that with the GF restriction (no frozen garlic bread as a backup) and the poor shopping options (nearest decent market over an hour away), and let's just say I'm pretty hungry too (for ex. Barbecued chicken made with boneless skinless breasts = dried out shoe leather; frozen ribs, prepackaged with bbq sauce, cooked in oven = mush on the bone).  She has been controlling the kitchen for every single meal, so there is no polite way for me to get in there and cook myself something decent, and not much in the way of ingredients anyway (I did pull off a few scrambled eggs yesterday thank goodness, but it isn't as if there is a farmers market nearby so I could offer to grill some veggies for everyone).

As for the tired part... Remember those who said BIL and SIL sounded selfish?  I never chimed in on that - I would not have said so at the time, but guess who has been wandering into the main cabin at 6:30 am with baby and toddler every morning... I asked DH to ask them to give us until 7 at least, since it isn't as if they can't make the baby a bottle at the guest cabin.

All in all it has been not my idea of a good time, but you guys helped me at least keep my kids fed so many thanks. As far as the recent debate about skipping it, I would absolutely have been in huge trouble with the family for doing that, but I pulled my husband aside already and explained that this feels like prison to me, being told when I can sleep (when the party leaves the main cabin), when to wake up (when they arrive back), when and what I can eat, and none of it good, and that with as little vacation as I get I really don't want to do this again.  That conversation didn't go so well but I can move that discussion over to the relationship forum :-)[/quote]

I feel for ya sister!  Hang in there.  Hopefully some good karma comes your way![/quote]

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