In three weeks' time my parents are coming to stay for a weekend, and my brother and family are coming for a (day)visit, primarily because, due to work commitments we can't make it to the family get-together this Christmas. Its also our wedding anniversary, and I was hoping that my Mum would offer to babysit so that dh and I could go out for a meal, the first since long before dd was born 10 months ago. Dh, however, has other plans and will be spending a large part of the weekend 150 miles away at his teenage sons's school play. He did discuss going to the play with me, and we did agree that he would go on his own, but he absolutely did not tell me that it was that weekend. I know I'm a selfish cow,and that the date of the school play can't be changed, but neither can my parent's plane tickets, so I'm faced with spending our anniversary with my Mum! We're fairly new in the area, and not particularly sociable(!) and I don't know anyone around here I'd be happy to leave dd with for an evening, so chosing an alternative date for a meal out won't work. It'll probably be another year before my parents can get back up here