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Our house, their party Update #20

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suekel:
I wanted to give a little update to this. The party is coming up next weekend, so on Sunday our nephew and niece in law came over to our house to see how much shade there would be at the time of the party, so they could decide whether to put up some canopies or not.  In the course of talking about the party and logistics thereof, neice in law said, unsolicited, "Feel free to invite a few friends, like Andy and Amy, and Bill and Betty" (friends of ours who she has met before).  I thanked her and said what I would do is invite them to come by a couple hours after the start of the party, so she could be sure they would have plenty of food for their invited guests first.  She told me that was not necessary, as they'd ordered more than enough, and she was just so appreciative of our offering up our home. 

So, crisis averted, and DH and I can stop bickering about this once and for all.  Unless he now tries to invite, like, 30 people.  :P  That would be an entirely new issue.  But I don't think he will do that.   

ETA - Unrelated to this particular issue, I wanted to praise my niece in law - she actually offered (practically insisted) to pay to have my house cleaned after the party.  I demurred, but thought it was awfully kind of her.

TootsNYC:
One point that occurred to me is that, by saying what she did, your niece-in-law actually indicated that she DID think you'd need her permission to invite people to her party.

She confirmed your own point of view, actually. So in fact, she DID care. (it's just that the way she reacted to this was to be generous and grateful.) How much better it was that you waited for her to offer, instead of springing it on her.

Thanks for the update!!

I hope it's a lovely party!

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