Visitors from overseas-not looking forward to it now

[dollylucy]

One of my best friends is coming to London with her 2 kids.
Was really looking forward to it, but now my mum and sister and nieces are coming too.
There'll be 9 people staying at my house. It's really not that big.
And day tripping into London.
It's going to be chaos and I can't deal with it.

Do I just need to get on with it?

lol@fire risk

Say no to mum and sister!

Not sure I can site the fire regs!

I'd figured out where the 3 guests from overseas were going to be, but now 4 extras.
It is just for 2 nights for all of them. Another 4 nights for the 3.
Friend from US and her family have hosted us many many times, they're pretty much family.
It's just me, I'm too stressed.
I can sort the kids out downstairs on blow up beds, a big sleepover.
That's not too bad, it's the other times, the hanging around, watching tv, dinners, snacks, mess!
I haven't actually got enough chairs.
I'm not cooking, please no!

But those visitors are seeing your mum and sis after visiting you, or did I misunderstand? 9 people for 2 nights in a small house would drive me mad. If you don't have space then you don't have it and yuor family should stay in a hotel if they are insisting on coming.

Do you have a tent and garden/terrace space? Apparently urban camping is the thing right now so if I were you I'd put your mum etc in the garden.

*In actual fact I'd put all the kids in the garden - we did this on our roof terrace with my sister's children when we had a house full. They loved it.

I thought about putting them in the garden, we have a summer house that is big enough, but we also have foxes behind us, do they wouldn't be that keen

I actually think my mum might change her mind- it's possibly too much for her, her health has not been great.
And I've just booked something for me and ds in the middle of it, so it breaks it up a bit- as lovely as they are, ds doesn't want to spend every second with them.