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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So here's a positive opportunity that could come from this: one of the days you could offer to take your brothers kids with your side of the family on an outing to give SIL a chance to have some alone grown up time with her parents.  Then you would get a day with just your side of the family and SIL could have an opportunity to get quality time with her parents.

I know my folks come to visit a lot and while they *adore* my kids they also really like when I can arrange a sitter and they can have time with just me without my attention being split with my kids.  So this could be a chance for a win-win.[/quote]

But then OP should expect that they'd suggest reciprocating and I don't see her wanting to hand over DS to them even for a day.[/quote]

PP here.  I don't follow. Brother would have his own kids so there isn't really a thing to reciprocate, and don't know why SIL's parents would want time with OP's kids anyway.  This plan just gives OP exactly the family dynamic she had been hoping for minus her SIL, and since what she'd wanted was time with her family of origin I doubt that would bother her.[/quote]

OP is upset because SIL's family is intruding on her vacation. She had a specific vision of what she wanted, nothing wrong with that, but it seems to me that even having her brother's family along is just to benefit OP's mom and her DS. She even claimed disappointment based on her DS missing out on time with his cousin. SIL is just the necessary vehicle to get the cousins together. SIL's family does not benefit DS.

Of course OP would take the cousin so SIL could disappear with her family. But if OP's brother said, we'll take Jackson so you can have time with just mom and grandma I doubt OP would want that.[/quote]

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