Got a little dilemma. Our son will be getting married this coming Saturday. Tomorrow we will be taking the car for oil change and DH will be getting his hair cut (all around noon time). On Thursday, I'm getting my hair done at 1pm.
Thursday evening we drop our dog off with friends for the weekend to babysit. Friday we drive in the cities to check into the motel for Friday nite/Saturday nite - and a BBQ at the bride's dad's house.
So here's the problem. DH's mother called me a little while ago to inform us that one of DH's sister-in-law's sister died and the wake is on Wednesday from 6-8 and funeral is on Thursday at 2:30.
I told her that we had hair appointments, etc. and were probably not gonna be coming in for either - especially the funeral as my hair appointment is at 1pm on Thursday - so that was out.
Its a 2 1/2 hr drive to the cities for us. With the price of gas, etc., we only do driving when necessary. She's trying to lay a guilt trip on us for not dropping everything to attend this wake and funeral. "Well we all have plans (with the wedding)"
Its only 1/2 drive for her and a lot less for others in the family who already are downtown.
What would you do? Call the SIL and express our condolences and explain that we are sorry we can't come into town for the wake/funeral? I'll let DH know when he gets home about the situation. The thing is that I don't even KNOW the SIL's sister. MIL acts like we have money to burn and its no problem. She doesn't even have gas money and thinks that everyone should just stop everything and attend this funeral - a few days before our son's wedding!
Thursday evening we drop our dog off with friends for the weekend to babysit. Friday we drive in the cities to check into the motel for Friday nite/Saturday nite - and a BBQ at the bride's dad's house.
So here's the problem. DH's mother called me a little while ago to inform us that one of DH's sister-in-law's sister died and the wake is on Wednesday from 6-8 and funeral is on Thursday at 2:30.
I told her that we had hair appointments, etc. and were probably not gonna be coming in for either - especially the funeral as my hair appointment is at 1pm on Thursday - so that was out.
Its a 2 1/2 hr drive to the cities for us. With the price of gas, etc., we only do driving when necessary. She's trying to lay a guilt trip on us for not dropping everything to attend this wake and funeral. "Well we all have plans (with the wedding)"
Its only 1/2 drive for her and a lot less for others in the family who already are downtown.
What would you do? Call the SIL and express our condolences and explain that we are sorry we can't come into town for the wake/funeral? I'll let DH know when he gets home about the situation. The thing is that I don't even KNOW the SIL's sister. MIL acts like we have money to burn and its no problem. She doesn't even have gas money and thinks that everyone should just stop everything and attend this funeral - a few days before our son's wedding!