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[quote=Anonymous]I’m not sure why everyone is getting on LW for being scheduled – if DH works every other weekend, there really aren’t that many free weekends available and you have to schedule in order to fit quality family time in.  My husband also works a lot of weekends, and our very limited blocks of free time together are very precious to me.  I’d also be annoyed to give up a pre-scheduled fun family weekend when I was already spending half my vacation time with the inlaws anyways.

If everyone’s local and it’s only going to be a couple of hours, why can’t MIL schedule the event for an evening?  Even if DH is working all weekend, he’s probably free Saturday or Sunday evening (or some other block of time) and they could do a large family get-together then.  Of course, the reason that MIL didn’t do that is that she wants the high quality time, rather than the ‘dregs’ at the end of a work day…..and of course OP wants to reserve the same very limited high quality time for her family.  It’s hard to substitute for a solid block of time to just focus on your immediate family.

Obviously something has to give.  Maybe it’s football.  Maybe it’s DH’s trip with his buddies.  Maybe MIL (she should have asked before she scheduled…but of course, she didn’t because she didn’t want to hear the answer.  Maybe she could take one of the August football weekends instead for her event?) Maybe DH needs to look for another job.  Maybe MIL watches the kids during one of the August football weekends (and commits to getting them to games/practices/ect) so that OP and DH can do a weekend together.  I’m not at all sure that OP’s family’s core time together is the first thing that should go.
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