My mum has said again (she has mentioned it every now and then over the years), that she would love to hire a villa and we all holiday together.
MIL lives abroad and we use up approx. 1-2 weeks of our annual leave seeing her each year with either us going there (which I loathe but do very gracefully) or her coming here. Lovely though she is, she's a couch potato and is happy to just admire DD and drink tea.
Prior to DD it would have been my worst nightmare to holiday with my parents - my dad is ok but my mum is very intense and moody and I can't stand the way she speaks to everyone and I usually try to keep meetups very short - few hours or a day at most as I find it SO stressful.
Now then, it would be a HUGE sacrifice on our part (I think more mine as I find my mum so difficult) to do this and it would be purely to esuage the guilt I feel about only seeing my parents out of duty and for DD to get to know her extended family better. DH leapt down my throat when I mentioned it as an idea but then quickly realised that I put myself through the same thing with his mum every year, year in year out and said he would do it. I was thinking it would have to be all of us when MIL is over to save on annual leave and safety in numbers etc. BUT I essentially still do not want to do this - what do you think?