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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 369565" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">GVC - you CAN do this. You will create a well planned two day visit. You will create a menu and stick to it. You will pre-make/bake anything and everything you can and freeze it so YOUR life is easier while they are there. You will plant a smile on your face and just mottle through. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">I have in-laws who announce when they are visiting. For a few years there, we had them stay at a local B&B (they can afford it) because when they stayed at our home, they would take over two bedrooms....both pcs and difficult child's. Why? Because I had the forethought to send my girls away while the in laws visited (they are not bio-grandparents and treat my kids like poor orphans - why should they have to put up with that?). Other times when sending them away was impossible, I made sure they kept busy with playdates, etc. My father in law isn't too bad, mostly because he's so self absorbed that he just goes about his business and we all ignore him. mother in law can be a real pita and she often has attention lapses, as in she just lapses in and out of our reality, so it's very difficult to have a conversation with her. Also, she takes it upon herself to go around my house and start folding laundry if there's any in the dryer and then commenting on how I should buy H new underwear!!! Or that cutting string beans is not as good as snapping them. She even sent us a huge xeroxed copy of dietary guidelines after a 4 day visit with a letter she typed about how we should prepare food better. That one even po'd H, as we are very healthy eaters and I had completely overhauled our normal holiday menu to make it diabetic friendly just for HER! Argh. Now I'm mad too. LOL.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">We were going to spend a week at the ocean with H's mom, dad, sister, her H and daughter, and his brother in August. I cannot tell you how happy I was when H told me that we're only going Wed-Sat. Thrilled!</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">Best of luck - you can do this. Go for walks when you need a time out, take difficult child with you. Run an errand, go water your garden, walk the dog - anything to give yourself little 10 minute breaks. That is what I do and it saves my sanity!</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 369565, member: 2211"] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]GVC - you CAN do this. You will create a well planned two day visit. You will create a menu and stick to it. You will pre-make/bake anything and everything you can and freeze it so YOUR life is easier while they are there. You will plant a smile on your face and just mottle through. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]I have in-laws who announce when they are visiting. For a few years there, we had them stay at a local B&B (they can afford it) because when they stayed at our home, they would take over two bedrooms....both pcs and difficult child's. Why? Because I had the forethought to send my girls away while the in laws visited (they are not bio-grandparents and treat my kids like poor orphans - why should they have to put up with that?). Other times when sending them away was impossible, I made sure they kept busy with playdates, etc. My father in law isn't too bad, mostly because he's so self absorbed that he just goes about his business and we all ignore him. mother in law can be a real pita and she often has attention lapses, as in she just lapses in and out of our reality, so it's very difficult to have a conversation with her. Also, she takes it upon herself to go around my house and start folding laundry if there's any in the dryer and then commenting on how I should buy H new underwear!!! Or that cutting string beans is not as good as snapping them. She even sent us a huge xeroxed copy of dietary guidelines after a 4 day visit with a letter she typed about how we should prepare food better. That one even po'd H, as we are very healthy eaters and I had completely overhauled our normal holiday menu to make it diabetic friendly just for HER! Argh. Now I'm mad too. LOL.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]We were going to spend a week at the ocean with H's mom, dad, sister, her H and daughter, and his brother in August. I cannot tell you how happy I was when H told me that we're only going Wed-Sat. Thrilled![/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]Best of luck - you can do this. Go for walks when you need a time out, take difficult child with you. Run an errand, go water your garden, walk the dog - anything to give yourself little 10 minute breaks. That is what I do and it saves my sanity![/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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