When you start seeing family, if you aren't already...

[Teacher12345]

Will you be spacing it out a week apart like Boris suggested?
DH is a stickler for the rules and watched the breifing so I think he is going to want to do this, but he will also want to see his mum (or the kids to) next weekend and then suggest mine the week after. His rational for this is fair. The kids normally see his mum every week and mine only once every 4-6 weeks as his mum lives 10 mins away and is retired and mine lives an hour away and still works full time.
However, I really want to see my mum and she has been really sensible, and understanding unlike MIL who is just desperate to see the kids and happy to break the rules to do it.
I don't feel the need to choose. I am happy to see his mum on the Friday morning and my mum on the Sunday afternoon etc. Will you be staggering it or just cracking on?

It would depend on whether they see each other too/their jobs in our case.
Eg, the other day me and my brother both sat in my mums back garden, so I wouldn't mind going to mum's garden again today/the beach with my brother etc.

Otoh if my PILs come to visit us indoors after the 4th July I would wait two weeks before seeing my parents again as FIL is a nurse and MIL a hospital cleaner. (I'm hoping they don't want to visit tbh!)

My MIL doesn't work and my mum is a nursery worker but only watching 8 kids at the moment. We would see MIL first (so no risk from my mum) although she doesn't care about the risk. She is currently living with her 90 yr old mother who also wants to see the kids and they have had others round already.

We debated this. My parents have said no to visits whilst we still socially distance. My in laws want to meet and have invited us down for the day, if my parents had been up for a visit I would have left 2 weeks between visits as in laws are also going to see sil. We still haven't decided if we will visit as unlikely to be able to get kids to keep distance.

In the two weeks you are leaving in between, you won't be mingling with any others? If not there is no point in keeping two weeks. Important thing is to keep socially distanced and meet in garden if possible etc

I told DH I want to see my mum on Sunday, outdoor and take the kids bikes to stop them climbing all over my mum and he is fine with that. I said we would see his mum first so no risk to her (as she is looking after her 90 yr old mum) and he said not to worry about that, she has had carpet fitters in this week and his Dads friend snuck in the back to watch football .
W haven't seen a single other person outside our household or week and WFH so no, we wouldn' be mingling with anyone else anyway.

*for weeks.

I haven’t heard this week thing? What is the point in that?

@RosieLemonade

I haven’t heard this week thing? What is the point in that?

The more social connections you have, the more potential for spread. Plus the connections of those people increasing their risk of exposure.

There's no right or wrong on it. Most people have felt isolated from their normal social balance for months and we have to live and maintain relationships. Many have a low risk of exposure to C19, but are on high risk of declining mental health that shouldn't be ignored.

If everyone involved has a low risk of exposure through their contacts, it matters less about time.

I finally saw DM for the first time in 4+ months recently. She's finally heading out to a small supermarket and has had a little contact with DB, a neighbour and a friend. She's in her 80s and was ill in Feb/ March hence caution.
I'm a SAHM, the DC's year groups aren't at school, my greatest risk is shopping. I did end up seeing a friend also working from home 13 days earlier and was in the house due to torrential rain and had hit my lowest ebb desperate for social contact.
So the risk to DM was pretty minimal. If I went on to see someone else shortly after the risk would still be pretty minimal.

If you've been socialising all over, work in contact with others, have DCs in school, all those risk factors go up and it is a greater hazard to those you visit.

In the circumstances you suggest, a couple of days is fine. No one is really high risk of having the virus at this point, you DM probably less than MiL.