Dear In-laws,
I know you have good intentions but we really, truly, absolutely do not want you to give us a Great Wolf Lodge weekend as a Christmas gift. I don't want to go!!!! And it's going to end up costing us money between traveling and eating out, etc. And your daughter's are lovely people, but I really don't want to get roped into having to spend an entire weekend together trapped in a urine-infested, germ hole of an indoor water park.


Dear DH,
You have no problem saying "no" to me, why can't you say "no" to your parents? Sisters? There would probably be a lot less hurt feelings if y'all just learned to speak up a bit.