Quote: Do you think your W would allow them to spend a few days/nights with her parents?
Mama, this is a MAJOR issue around my house right now. W & I had planned on having the kids with her parents for MONTHS now and we were both looking forward to it.
To go back a little bit, my in-laws have ALWAYS complained about our boys not spending much time with them. It was only for our Ireland trip that we left them for an extended period of time (10 days) and since things went well, we agreed to do that more often. W & I both felt a hurdle had been cleared and now we were comfortable with this sitch.
They insisted that we plan to leave them for a week in the summer. When the summer came, W did not enroll them in any programs because the "week" was still up in the air. Since her parents are out of the country a lot, we were waiting for them to pick a week. Well, weeks went by and still nothing. Then July comes around and my SIL makes plans to leave HER two kids with them for 2 weeks (wTF!!! Oh, and there is a LONG history of favoritism in her family for SIL). That pretty much killed our chances of sending the boys down. We were NOT happy to say the least.
So, anyway, like I said, this is a BIG issue right now because W and I both know what that week would have meant to us. Now, instead, she has had the boys home all summer (yes, she COULD have just put them in a program but was TRYING to get them time with the GP's) and we have a lot of additional stress because of it.
I know it's not all their (in-law's) fault, but it's just one more thing that doesn't make our lives any easier.
