Back history - my mum lives 5 miles away from me, but never looks after my dc, either at hers or at mine. She's in her mid-60s and is a healthy woman, so no health problems. She makes all the 'right' noises, and tells my children that they can stay at hers etc, but has never actually had them. My dc are 14 and 6 so long history, and not asking her to care for babies.
Now for the last couple of years on a regular basis she has said that we should go away for my dh birthday, and that 'as the kids will be older they can stay with me'. Now dh's birthday is in a couple of months time, and I'd like to take him to NY for 3 nights.
Would it be wrong/am I likely to be disappointed to ask my mum to have the children for these 3 nights, bearing in mind they will be at school whilst we are away, can get a school bus from her house at 7.30am and get dropped off to hers at 6.30pm. Therefore very little effort for her (no school run, they'll be knackered so no occupying them after school, and they are no longer babies).
I feel like IABU to even ask her/take her up on her offer. What does MN jury think?