So here is my mini-rant/DML for the day. Mainly because I need a sounding board to hash it out before I loose my mind and just sound nuts when I go off on someone.
My MIL/FIL are mainly pretty good people that I really enjoy and get along well with for the most part. They live a couplel states away but they like to come visit my family a couple times a year, and they like to use my house as a stopping point on their way to visit other family as we are a good mid-way point for them. So we see them every 3-4 months.
My only issue with them is that they are not responsible with their medicine at all. I have talked to them about it in the past, but they seem to be getting worse with it. MIL takes 20 different pills a day, and FIL takes like 12. They will leave their pill boxes out on the kitchen table or on their bed and then invite the kids into their room. This past week while they were visiting MIL dropped a pill in the couch, and just got out another one to take. I was shocked and told her she couldn't just leave the pill in the couch because one of the kids could get it later and swallow it. She acted like I was crazy. She dropped all of her pills at the kitchen table during dinner, and they scattered all over the table in bowls, on plates, etc... We had to spend several minutes picking pills up and making sure they were all accounted for. Then today, almost a week after they left, my one year found an empty pill bottle with no lid in the living room and started chewing on it. I took it away right away, but I have no idea if it is empty because they used all the meds in it, or if it had meds in it and the lid fell off and now there are pills somewhere in my house.
I don't want to ban them from the house. I have asked them to keep their medications in their bedroom where if they drop them they can be easily found. Then to also keep the kids out of their room, so that they don't accidentally get into their medications. However they seem to think I am being silly. They babysit their grandkids back home all the time, and no one has an issue with their behaviors there. My husband just blames it on their age and being stuck in their ways. (they are in their 60s) But I can't let a safety risk like this go in my house, it is driving me BSC...
Is there any other option I am not seeing or am I making a mountain out of a mole hill?
ETA: I have a 16 month old, a 3 year old, and a 9 year old.