u/palmtrees2456

Grandparents babysitting at your house?

For anyone that has grandparents come to their house regularly to babysit - what do you do for them in terms of lunch/dinner/snacks? My MIL and mum have my 10 month old one day a week each, and while my mum is set up to have my baby at her house, my MIL prefers to come to ours (which is so fine!). But what should I be offering in terms of meals available to her? I have asked if there’s anything she’d like us to stock that she can have, but she said not to worry. I often WFH so will always make her a couple of coffees and occasionally offer lunch if I’m making something. But tonight she came over about 5pm to watch baby while we went to an event, bought her own dinner, shared it with baby and then we got a doorbell notification later in the night that she ordered food. I feel awful I didn’t think to have anything for her! What do others normally do or find works well? She‘s the type to automatically say “I’m fine!” but I don’t want her to have to bring her own food or not cater to her when she’s regularly looking after our baby in our home.

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u/palmtrees2456 — 8 hours ago