Hi all, I'm in the Big City!
Solil, is the in-law visit imminent, or is there anyway you could put it off?
If you can't put it off, then my suggestion would be to come clean at the outset. Explain that you're exhausted emotionally, and "hope they don't mind but you will need plenty of rest and Time to reflect, if they would like to help, then taking the children under their wing for a while each day would be great". Could you say something like that to them?
Goodness city life is busy. But I was expecting some smog, and there doesn't seem to be any, Times have changed since I was here in the Victorian era
See you later.