Holiday with the inlaws.

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Jags..class said:
It would be respectful to eat all the main tea meals together unless they state that they would like alone time, breakfast and dinners would be your own choice, that how i would do it.
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Haha love some of the replies here.

Slight twist is its my parents who are wanting to pay for us to go away with them and my sister. Kids are toddlers sothe extra help would be great. But the mrs says she wants time for just us, and to eat with just our family once every other day.

I agree as above evening meals always together. I get on really well with my family and think it'd be nice and a break from the routine at home but she's not so keen.
 

JamesEFC said:
Rather you than me mate
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This. I once went on a week's holiday with a girl i'd been out with for nearly a year, her family and some friends of theirs. I'd met her family before but only a couple of minutes here and there as i collected my girlfriend up from her house. Anyway, as luck would have it, my girlfriend and me had a major disagreement on the second day of the holiday which resulted in her sulking with me forever. I swear the rest of that holiday felt like it'd never end
 
Little Ralphy said:
Haha love some of the replies here.

Slight twist is its my parents who are wanting to pay for us to go away with them and my sister. Kids are toddlers sothe extra help would be great. But the mrs says she wants time for just us, and to eat with just our family once every other day.

I agree as above evening meals always together. I get on really well with my family and think it'd be nice and a break from the routine at home but she's not so keen.
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Ungrateful of the Mrs that if you ask me!
 
Clearly by the end of the holiday she will have said "Never Again" about 50 times, you will be firmly in the doghouse in the middle. She'll have accused them of spending more time with your sisters kids and have a log of every movement with him/her, she'll have accused them of favouritism and at some point you'll end up babysitting her kids while they go out on the razz, surfacing late the next afternoon walking through the foyer in the same clobber.

Just make sure you keep us up to date.
 

shouldn't be too bad with a bit of give and take. The oldies will function at a different speed / rate than you, they will maybe get up earlier but want to go to bed earlier. Mrs Oldie will lap up the time with the grankids as will Mr oldie....up to a point. Don't be afraid for both you and him to slope off and leave the women to it, they love it.

A bit sid sexist I know but 9times out of 10 thats how it works

Breakfasts and Evening meals should be, as far as possible, an all family affair. The in between is optional

play it by ear, but don't sell your soul.
 
Holidays with parents / in laws are ****e by definition

If they're paying your missus needs to keep a sense of perspective before she starts demanding anything IMO
 
We all went to Presthaven last year. My daughter paid. I suggested she invite her grandparents to fill the caravan quota. I told them we'd only asked them along as it would be an extra car for luggage :P. Was quite a good week. They were so pleased that someone had asked them to go. Their OWN kids do nothing with them. I, as their son-in-law, do more for them tbh. Anyway, grandma did all the cooking ( as she insisted ) and it was a full-English each morning (y).
 

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