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[quote=Anonymous]I get the impression that you don't really like your MIL as much as you say you do. Maybe you can see the good qualities she has but you don't really like her - otherwise you wouldn't be looking for excuses to back out of celebrating a milestone birthday and attending a family reunion so the family could meet your one year old.

You say it is DS#1 sensory issues and he doesn't play well but you also propose sending DS1 with your DH and you staying home - in that scenario it doesn't really seem your concern is DS1s sensory issues.

Also why would anyone go all that way then stay 25 miles away in a hotel? Then you have none of your stuff, no room of your own for naps, rests or to get away during the day, no place for DS1 to decompress during the day given his sensory issues and it would be removing yourselves from all the evening visiting and catching up while you sit in a hotel room.

Also given your concerns with the children sleeping in the same room - how would a hotel room solve that - would you rent two rooms so that the children were in separate rooms? Then you and DH would not only spend your evening away from the family but also away from each other watching sleeping children.

Suck it up. Go. Realize that sometimes you have to adapt for other people rather than always trying to make it exactly how you want, and how you have made it at home. Different isn't bad. Flexibility is a great skill to model and teach your kids. And admit you don't like your MIL - pretending to like her then trying to think up every possible reason not to go makes you sounds very disingenuous. [/quote]

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