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[quote=Anonymous]Is you sister fully on board with the plan to leave kids with sitters for so much time while you are together? I could see my sister coming up with a plan like this for my visit, and (perhaps unknowingly) pressuring me into it, when it’s never something I would have chosen without the pressure. Dropping $300 (or even $50) on a sitter is a big deal for us, and something we only do a couple times a year whereas for my sister, it’s just part of their normally budgeted childcare expenses. Especially with a two month old, which is easily portable and not even daycare aged, it seems likely that the notion to leave kids with a sitter and go do adult things unimpeded is likely driven by your needs and desires rather than theirs. Unless they suggested dropping the kids for an all day music festival or something, I’d guess that they’ve been trying to be accommodating to your wants for the visit but the $200+ price tag has just pushed them over the line of what they feel they can do.[/quote]

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