Re: some more advice please :+(
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When you told your husband this, did he agree to go with you BEFORE telling you about his mother’s plans? Because based on what you wrote, it does not sound like there was a plan/agreement on his part for the outing YOU planned.
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I have no idea why after being married for several year and being the mother of 2 children, you’re not able to deal with such a simple situation like an adult. I don’t care what your husband or MIL does…what’s YOUR excuse for being so inflexible? You want to go out shopping right? Hence the reference to the shops closing. Well, plans change. Your husband is already at a place where its more convenient for him to take his mother to visit the relative…both of them are already at the camp (relative lives next to the camp), and you/him/kids going shopping is not a big deal. Its not like you guys had dinner reservations where you spent an hour getting ready or tickets for a show/concert whatever. Its a frigging shopping trip!
Unless the shops burn down, they will re-open tomorrow.
Besides, you already know how your MIL is. If your husband tell her that he can’t take her to visit a relative b/c he has to take you shopping, that would’ve led to her getting upset & start an argument with him…which would’ve put your husband in a bad mood. Why on earth would you choose to put your husband, a man you supposedly love, in a situation which would upset him in order to visit a shop? 