We have been in the UK for 2 and a half years. My DD1 was 15 months when we moved. Our second DD was born here and is 8 months old.
Since we moved not one of the grandparents have come to visit and the only communication was over video chat, but DD1 has never been interested in sitting still and talking to them.
We are flying in a week to go back for a visit and having DD2 christening while we are there. We are going to be staying with my FIL as his house is big enough to accommodate us all.
My parents is expecting me to leave my DC at their house for a sleepover. They do not have a spare room, planning on throwing a mattress on their bedroom floor for DD1 and having the Camping Cot for DD2.
I am very reluctant as my DD1 doesn’t even allow my husband to bathe her or put her to bed. He is allowed to read a story with us, but then he has to leave. My parents do not know the DC bath time or bed time routine. But they are expecting me to leave my DC with technically strangers as DD1 was too small to remember them other than over a screen.
They are already going to be in a different home, different bed, different country, which is already making it difficult. I do not want to upset them further by leaving them alone in another strange house, another strange bed with, seeing it from their perspective, strange people alone.
Am I being unreasonable by saying no.