Ok so I’m very close to my cousin, she got married last year and had an amazing wedding.
In February she said she was organising an anniversary dinner for the 22nd December (even tho her anniversary is the week before) i said it sounded lovely but couldn’t commit as I was pregnant with our second child. Baby would be 8 months.
The dinner is for immediate family in the hotel they got married in. It’s also very pricey.
It came to room booking and she told me dinner would be at 8. It’s a very formal hotel and not really baby friendly. I declined but said my parents would drive the 3hr journey and take our daughter.
Nothing more said until her husband phoned me saying how much we would be missed. I was taken aback and said we would think about.
The logistics are a nightmare and then the whole family including my cousin and husband would come to stay with us from Christmas Eve. My baby does not sleep and evenings are still very hit and miss. Quite frankly I’m shattered.
Now, my parents live in England, we are in Ireland and they have been caught in the Gatwick disaster and are now only arriving tomorrow after travelling to an airport further away from them.
My cousin is now suggesting they drive from Dublin to Belfast to collect my mum and dad and then they go to the dinner and get the train back to Belfast on Sunday. My parents aren’t spring chickens and get nervous in new places, they are already stressing about getting to a new airport.
Now I can’t understand if we are being unreasonable. I’ve had so many txts and conversations that I can no longer think clearly.