My mother-in-law is upset that my husband and I paid for an all-inclusive vacation for my parents but didn't do anything for her. The vacation was a thank-you because theyve been our childcare providers for five years!

Five years ago, my parents moved to be right in my neighbourhood. Since my kids were born, they have been there almost daily. My dad works, but my mom is retired and between the two of them, they have been our only childcare providers. My parents have refused payment and genuinely love doing it. They're great, and while we've done little thank yous here and there, my mom and my dad have essentially given us five years of full time daycare at no cost.

We decided to send them on an all inclusive vacation this past March as a thank-you. The cost of that wasn't even close to what we would have spent on daycare in those five years, but we made sure that everything was taken care of. It's come at another cost though: my husband's mom is very upset that we did this for my parents but not for her.

We explained that this was our "thanks for taking care of the kids for five years" and truly, it's none of her business. She doesn't live close to us, but she said that if she knew we were "giving out supreme vacations" she would have moved closer to us and looked after the kids.

I'm honestly not even sure what to tell her. She shouldn't want to look after her grandkids to get a vacation. We see her once a month as it is, and she's never looked after the kids because she says she hates babysitting. She doesn't do anything for us, which is totally ok!

It's honestly just made our relationship with her really sour and she's been dropping hints for expensive gifts and vacation destinations and we're like, why the heck would we buy you that when you're acting like a brat and also... No! We were able to save a lot of money because of what my parents did for us, but we still set aside money each month to do this vacation for them. We don't have money shooting out our butts! We can't afford to just start giving all of our family members vacations!

She will not drop it and I'm just at a loss. My husband has her blocked right now because she's just been a brat.

Also, to answer the question of why she knows: My parents had posted some pictures of their trip on social media. My mother-in-law decided to contact them and say that she felt sad that they had to resort to this to get away from being used for free child care. My mom wrote back saying that actually we'd paid for everything and this was our thank you to them.