Moved over here recently and have family coming to visit in 2012. Sister and partner(whom I have yet to meet in person) and Mum(Dad turned weird and will not fly any more).
Sister's partner suggests that my Mum comes with them(!!!!!!) together so she does not have to travel alone from UK.
Whilst that is a really sweet (if a bit strange) idea this was before even talking to us about it.
My husband and I are less than enthusiatic about this idea.
We are renting a 4 bd house with 2 bthrooms. 1 bd for kids, 1 bd for us, 1 for study and 1 for playroom. We can move playroom into living area and out up bed in there , no issue, but then if we have someone else we have to put someone else on an inflateable in living/dining /kitchen area(open plan) for a month ish. Thus they will woken up by kids who are up at 6 am every morning!, and kids stuff will be everywhere in living area (which is no issue) on top of mattress etc.(combined = issue)
Other issue is I see 2 different types of holidays. My sister and her partner, hubby and I are planning on doing some active stuff (underwater rafting etc) whilst kids in school in day and can't see Mum doing that! Mum's visit I see as a little more sedentary and more about spending time with greandkids , driving around seeing area etc. Plus 5 adults =2 cars, not 1.
Plus my hubby will kill my Mum being in that small a space for that long. So I talked to sister this am and asked her to rebroach this with Mum.
Any thoughts?
Am I being selfish? I cannot see disrupting our lives for that long esp with 2 young and active kids.
Thanks.