Both of our parents live 5-10 min away. They are both crazy about DS, yet they will never call us asking to come see him. I am always the one inviting myself over to their houses so that he can see them, and I'm getting sick of being the only one to make the effort. DH's mom will call ocassionally to see if we want to come over for dinner, but its rare.
I decided that I'm not calling either set of our parents anymore since I made sure to tell them last time we saw them "If you ever want to see Sam, just give me a call and you can stop by anytime!" So I want to see how long it is before they call asking to see him.
Of course, DH is ruining my efforts for this due to the fact that I have a dentist appt tomorrow that I scheduled for when he'd hopefully be home, and of course they have to work overtime now most likely so I may have to cave and call one of our parents to watch him.
Anyone else in this situation?
Re: Anyone else have to make the effort for GP's to see LO?
We had this problem in the beginning, particularly with my MIL. LO is her only grandchild, and at 6 weeks old she had seen her maybe 3 times. It got back to us through SIL that she wanted my DH to WANT her to come over.
Anyway, DH told her that it was absurd, and that we are perfectly fine sitting down as a family and don't think about calling, because if we did we'd have to call EVERYONE and that's unreasonable. He told her if she, or anyone else, wants to see LO, then she's gonna have to call - we're not going to beg her to come and see her own grandchild.
Needless to say, she started calling.