MiL has been here 60mins...

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Oh god. parents-in-law have been here 1 hour into a 7 day visit. They are already annoying me.
MIL likes to help/take over my kitchen and she doesn't listen when I tell her to go and sit down (nicely). If I give her a job to do she just gets in my way and takes forever to do it.
I want to run away for the week.

Oh, sorry. Logistics really.

DPs and DMIL both live about 2.5 hours away from us, 15 minutes apart. Car needed.

DPs decamp to their holiday house about 2 hours away in another direction (about 3.5 hours from our house) for NYE and Easter - its traditional at this stage. So the family gathering is down there. Car definitely needed.

While we have 2 cars, it makes no sense to take 2 to the holiday house. DMIL would be hurt if DD and I went straight, and DH would be incredibly hurt.

But if there is any hassle over going on Sunday, and early, I WILL be letting him, and probably her too, know how upset I am.

And Dh is away with work so much, and doing weekends down with DMIL while we continue our activities at home (DD does Cubs and sailing at weekends, and I am a Cub scout leader) - that we actually want to spend some family time together.

This is the longest DH has not been down home since summer 2015, 3 weekends. It has been pretty much every second weekend, regardless of what is going on in his life or how shattered he is (even arriving home from work overseas at midnight Fri, driving down Sat morning, driving home Sun afternoon, leaving at 4am Mon for the airport again - oh no, he still needed to go down!). For over 18 months.

So I think its partly that he is still not thinking straight - and she is manipulating him. But I will keep my powder dry as its Easter -as long as they stick to the plan.

Missyb1 I think you deserve a medal we are half of the first day into a 10 night stay and I am just about coping and thought that was bad enough.
Aging hippy I agree with you I love mine but 2 or 3 days and I have had my fill. The kids are like caged lions as she never wants to go out unless it's to a garden centre. So they are playing up. I feel I am forced emptying the dishwasher wiping the work surface taking the recycling out and in between cooking making drinks washing ironing and putting clothes away. DH has blinking Doctor Who on so I have had to leave the room.

Forever not forced.