DH's sister is throwing a birthday party at her sister's home 8 hours drive from where we live. It is on a saturday evening. We have 3 DC aged from 5 to 10 years. Our DC are the youngest children in the family.
They do not cope well at all with late nights, which result in terrible behaviour the following day.
DH is proposing we leave home on the saturday morning and arrive as the party starts. We will leave the following morning, and spend the day driving home. The DC fight like mad in the car, and we all get stressed.
We hve to stay in a B&B as there is no room in the house. DH's sisters and his mum will stay in the house where the party is.
When my mother-in-law asked if we had had our invite, I said we weren't sure we'd be going, whereby she got very shirty with me, and said that we had to go!!
Mother in law gets on my nerves, but I do like my sister-i-law and would go if the party was nearer.
I know that it will cause us all alot of stress going, so am I unreasonable not to go?