Ok, so my best friend has always had in law issues. They make elaborate plans around holidays (there are four or five different events around Christmas that they're expected to take part in: cookie baking, going to The Christmas Carol on stage, etc.) And it's not "Oh, these are the plans we have, it'd be lovely if you could attend some of them," it's "You will come or else." If there's any sort of hitch in the plans or disruption of "family time", her MIL gets all distraught and everyone rushes to comfort her and give in to her tantrums.
Anyway, my friend just gave birth to her first DC (a little girl :)) less than a month ago. Her family and her DH's family have both been to visit, but now her IL (MIL, FIL, BIL and wife and two sons) are coming to stay in the city where my friend her DH and DD live. They are getting a hotel for four days and three nights and insisting that my friend and DH and the baby stay the whole time too.
Now, AIBU or is it mad to expect my friend to pack all the acoutrements needed for four days with an infant, find someone to take care of their dog, and go stay at a hotel a few miles from their own house? She doesn't want to go at all, but feels she has no choice. (She's much less bitchy than me, y'see :o) So, AIBU about this being absolutely ridiculous?