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August 2012 Moms
bigbootyjudi
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HOLIDAY TWATS.
bigbootyjudi
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We skipped Twatwaffle Tuesday because it was Christmas and we were all enjoying our completely sane family who weren't throwing parenting advice at us or slices of ham at our babies, right?
So, holiday edition! It seems like everyone needs somewhere to vent about their MILs, parents, etc, soooo who shall earn the award this week?
So, holiday edition! It seems like everyone needs somewhere to vent about their MILs, parents, etc, soooo who shall earn the award this week?
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SCANDAL!
SCANDAL!
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Re: HOLIDAY TWATS.
Disclaimer first. My parents are saints. Dad's temper just...is awful sometimes.
The day went off without a hitch...until Dad decided to nap on the couch. Mine and DH's room is right above the living room and our bed creaks really bad due to the mattress and box spring basically being held up on particle board slats. DH was sitting on the bed on his laptop and I could tell he was trying to get comfy. To my dad, though, it apparently sounded like torture. We explained for the millionth time about my bed and told him to go nap in his room, but that wasn't good enough for him. He went upstairs and chewed DH out. Later on, when Mom was doing the dishes that Dad was supposed to do, she discovered that he had put the cast iron skillet in the sink on top of our antique glass plates we'd eaten dinner on. She was pissed and when she brought this up to him, he brought up the bed thing again and accused Mom and I of belittling his problems and that we were ruining Christmas. I told him it was just fine until he ruined it by being childish. He started going on and on, and now his yelling had woken the baby up, so I yelled the aforementioned as I headed up the stairs, and he slammed the bedroom door and didn't come back out until this morning to go to work. DH took over baby duties so I could go back downstairs and help Mom clean up.
SO's mom showing unannounced at my house at 8am and letting herself in...while we were sleeping. I'm still like "WTF" over that. I don't get his family's spontaneity. It is all sorts of inconvenient.
Myself because jokingly I told SO I "clocked out" for the night. I told him he was on baby duty all night. He put S to bed, but he took me seriously and got up all night even though he wasn't feeling well...OOPS. I slept for 8 hours. I can't say I feel guilty though...haha.
SCANDAL!
I have to re nominate DH's friend's "fiancee" (She proposed to herself, hence the word fiancee in quotes).
She sent an EVITE this past Sunday for the wedding reception/ceremony. TACKY
Then, on Christmas morning, she sends another EVITE. This is for the "drunk bus" they are hosting/renting the day after their wedding. They met on the St. Patty's day Drunk Bus 5 years ago, so she wants to relive the day? Mind you, they are not young whoo hoo party people, I'm talking mid to late 30s. Not exactly the age range that shows up to these things in our circle of friends. Oh, and they would like everyone to pony up 10 bucks for the rented school bus. So you are hosting a drunk bus after your wedding, but you want everyone to pay?
Oh, and she also put on her grandmother's engagement ring, took a pic and posted it on Facebook Christmas morning as if she got a ring for Christmas (and no, her man did not propose with it)
KRAZY KAKES
And MIL. As always. Trying shove turkey in ds's face, and convinced other family members that he needed it and I was depriving him.
She also told me it was disrespectful to nurse ds in public and I should use a bathroom. When I was nursing ds [I found a quiet secluded area], she told DH that I was embarrassing her.
Burp cloths the size of a tissue
Newborn size bibs
A binky bib...???
A baby shower gift basket
Wee wee tee pees
Decorative socket cover
The last one gets me the most. Yes it was a cutesy craft thing but let me tell you this, if you put something bright and fluffy on a socket cover, the baby is going to WANT to touch it and pull it out of the socket and potentially get hurt.
At least I'm not the one getting useless junk this year. There was one time I got a pirate frog wine bottle holder. While I like pirates and wine, all it did was take up space and collect dust on the top of my kitchen cabinet.
My mom freaked out when she saw that I brought a Rock'n'Play with us for LO to sleep in. She said "he needs to lay flat, he can't sleep in that!". Well, plenty of babies do sleep in those; and the doctor even told me to have him sleep with his head inclined when he was sick last week!
DH's uncle. He never says anything DIRECTLY to me, but he'll say it within ear shot. This time, it was "oh, they finally bought you some pants!" (he made a loud-enough-for-me-to-hear snarky comment over Thanksgiving about LO's BabyLegs, something about how boys shouldn't wear legwarmers, especially colorful ones). And then he also said something about that I was going to give the baby acid reflux because I laid him down on the floor to play after I fed him.
ILs are too nice/polite to be overly outspoken about what they think, but I could tell they thought I was crazy for trying to give LO a little bite of turkey mixed with breastmilk. MIL did say something in passing about babies not liking meat and that she never fed meat until over 9 months old. (Side note: He didn't like it. He made a face and cried. But heck, that's the same reaction as when they gave him a taste of formula in the hospital after he was born too (in a syringe when we were having trouble getting latched). I just don't think he's ready for any solid food yet, I think the texture freaked him out.) I do appreciate that my ILs let DH & I take the reins, instead of trying to tell us what to do all the time, even if they do think we're crazy at times.
It's a triangular shaped bib with a loop to hook a pacifier to at the end of it.
The school I did training at. I was told on the 7th I'd have my payment in a week and a half. I don't have it and we really wanted that money for Christmas shopping. I spitefully hope they didn't paid by Christmas either!
DH's aunt. After DD was up off and on every hour for 4 hours, she called FIL's house twice at 7am. She left a 5 minute message both times to the effect of, "Hello. Wake up. Hello. 'FIL' wake up. Hello. Hello. Hello." If no one answered, they are in bed! This woke up DD for the morning and I'm now running on 4 hours of sleep.
DSS's bio mom. She never called back to see him. She's an asshat. What kind of mother cares about her son so little? She didn't even invite him over for Christmas when we told her we'd only be 5 minutes from her house. I think her boyfriend, and father of her youngest, doesn't like the fact that she has children with other men. He won't let her see DH or DSS without him present.
My mom for not calling me back on Christmas.
Me for forgetting to call my dad on Christmas.
Try Hobby Lobby. Their ad said 66 percent off.
I usually don't post in this thread but I will nominate my brother for being late for Xmas dinner for the billionth time and expecting all of us, including my 4yo, to wait for him. Thankfully we didn't wait. I think my mom was annoyed too because she knows that DS is a grouch when hungry, but she also knows my bro is always late
You should have asked her if SHE would like to eat in the bathroom. Your DS is a person just like everyone else.
I nominate myself partially. SO has the dreaded man cold, and asked me to get up with the baby last night. He usually does it. I didn't want to, but said yes. I got 7ish hours of sleep total the two nights before, and was so hoping to sleep last night because SO napped for hours yesterday.
He woke up as soon as we got in bed. I changed his diaper, and hung out in the living room until I couldn't keep my eyes open anymore. Took him in the room, and he was kicking his legs around. SO complained, but they both fell asleep. I couldn't fall asleep for a while.
He wakes up again about 2 hours later. Instead of feeding him right away, I just gave DS his binky, and turned on the seahorse. He went back to sleep. So did i.
Wakes up again a while later, I replace the binky, lay back down, we both fall asleep. Wakes up again, I replace the binky, go to heat up a bottle. He fell asleep so I put the bottle on the night stand, and went to the bathroom. When I got out I forgot about his bottle, and feeding him, and went to bed.
He wakes up AGAIN, my SO jumps up mad as hell. Asks me did I feed him... I look over at the full bottle, and say no. He yells at me, I yell back telling him I'm sorry, but I've gotten next to no sleep layely, he takes the baby into the living room, and I go right to sleep.
I wake up again, and it is almost noon. I couldn't even handle one night! Then despite my b!tchness, he let me sleep in. I'm a horrible girlfriend.
I nominate MIL. She gave us all the most random and insane Christmas gifts!
I posted last night but mil for buying off ds's wish list and giving the gifts to my nephew which meant his list didn't have gifts for others to buy because they were marked as bought. And then mil for waking DS up from a nap today because she had to "share HER BABY" with others at Xmas. I hate when she says that... He's mine!!
The guy who left my firm and left me with a full brief to write today... When I finally took a day off. Icing was that he sent our packet of evidence to the judge and didn't save a copy so I had no idea what he used. I worked 15 hours on my day off :-[
He belittled my daughter's feelings. She was expecting to see him Sat. She sat waiting fir almost 5 hrs. I called wondering where he was because I was pissed my daughter was hurt. He started focusing on me saying I was stuck in the past. Wtf did that have to do with my daughter expecting to see you? Note: I'm so over the past and have forgive him and myself over the past. He hasn't. Which is why he brought it up. Anyways...it took him took Christmas day to see her. Pissed!!
His wife
She has a really bad habit of putting herself in stuff that doesn't have anything to do with her. I understand that's your husband but if the situation has nothing to do with you don't make it about you. Have a seat. She texted me a,10 pg text about how ungrateful, disrespectful, jealous and rude I was towards him. I'm none of these things. She likes to just pot herself in stuff because she thinks herself my mother. I have one, even if I don't talk to her, no one is going to replace. Especially not an attention seeking, nasty old women.
My lil BIL
He and his fiance are struggling. She's in school and he's working. No one knows exactly where hid money us going because his fiance us spending aol her money on their son. For Christmas he shows up with a new outfit and she's looking like I don't have any extra money because I've spent ask on our son. His response, its ok, my soon is the greatest gift I could want. Brah, you said what! Take a seat and I promptly fussed him out. So now he's mad st me because if it had came grim his sister, who has already cussed him out him out for not manning up, it would gabber been better received. Whatever. You're wrong you're wrong. Don't be mad because you don't like who told you it. Just do better.
My brother! I read that introducing cereal to early can increase chances of Celiac disease. My BIL has it so although it is a slim chance my son has it, it is still a concern. So on Christmas, my brother was mocking me that I was concerned about the disease. He then proceeded to feed his 2 month old son applesauce and ice box cake (chocolate wafers and whipped cream filling and icing).
I'm so sick of the comparisons of the 2 boys. Everyone says it will be so great for them to grow up the same age. But my brother and I don't get along. This is not a good thing for me mentally. I know - flame away!
Oh where do I start???
MIL - - - For obviously choosing EVERYONE else over my DH and LO. She had to work the weekend of x-mas, and only had x-mas day off. We invited her to our house. My family was going to be there. And it is LO's 1st x-mas! She said she didn't want to come becasue she was going to her new BF's daughter's house. But she made plans to see us the weekend after x-mas. On x-mas day DH calls his brother and g-parents to wish them a merry x-mas and learns that his mom had already called them both that morning. Yet his mom never called him?!?!? He calls his mom to wish her a merry x-mas and fins out that she is busy cooking x-mas dinner. Apparently they changed plans and decided to have her BF's family over. DH was pissed that his mom wasn't going to be there for LOs 1st mas, then pissed that she called other family members and not him, and then even more pissed that she not only woould rather celebrate with her BF's family, but they were all going to her house.
FIL and family - - - We went to thier house for x-mas eve. We've done this every year for the past 10 years. Nothing has changed! On the way there (2.5 hour drive) we get a text from DH's step mom "are you guys spending the night". WTF - we never spend the night. Where is this comming from. We reply "no". She replies "are you coming down today". Again, WTF, of course we're coming down today. It's x-mas eve. We made plans to do this remember! We reply "yes, we're about an hour away". She replies back "will you be here for dinner". Again, WTF. Seriously! Do you not remember any converation we have. Plus, if I'm going to be in a car for 5 hour round trip, you better feed me! LOL! We reply "yes". Then when we get there, DH, FIL, and BIL all run out to get FIL a new phone. It was the plan, so obviously FIL and BIL knew we were coming that day. BUT then DH's step mom and step sister run out x-mas shopping (btw - I know they were getting our gifts). So I'm at the house all day with LO and BIL's new GF. Don't get me wrong, she's nice and we get along. But it was just frustrating that we drove all the way down there to not spend any time with them! They were shopping for our gifts while we were just sitting at thier house!
My entire family - - - on x-mas day - - - I made dinner for 11 people. They always show up literally 30 minutes before dinner. Which is so annoying because anyone who had cooked a huge turkey dinner knows that everything happens in that last 30 mins (cutting the turkey, cooking the veggies, cooking the rolls, etc). They start trying to talk to you about stupid stuff when your trying to put dinner on the table. Call me crazy, but maybe if you just showed up at a decent time, then you could socialize BEFORE dinner.
My brother and SIL - - - on x-mas day - - - My brother calls 30 minutes before dinner and says they are running late and they are just leaving the house (he lived 2.5 hours away). He says not to wait for him for dinner. I should mention, he was bringing the wine! So then I'm raiding my liquor cabinet looking for wine. I didn't drink much when we were TTC and not at all while pregnant or BF-ing. So it's been over 4 years since I've bought wine. At dinner my mom complans that the wine tastes like communion wine (i.e. strong and bad). I just snapped and said, well, brother was supposed to bring the wine. Then brother and his family show up right when we were finishing up dinner. They see wine on the table and say "oh i thought we were bringing the wine". I snapped again and said, well yeah, but you weren't here and I had to give them somthing!".
My dad - - - also on x-mas day - - - I tell the family that dinner was on the table and to come on in to the dinning room. My dad is always the first one to sit down. I'm literally still putting the food on the table and people are literally still coming in and sitting down. I see my dad start to put food on his plate! (I was taught that we weren't allowed to put food on our plates until after we say grace). So I say, "dad we haven't said grace yet". Of course my 15 yr old neice sees her pop-pop putting food on his plate, so she starts putting food on her. My dad says something "smart", I can't remember what. So I'm like "I guess my family is a bunch of savages!". So he stops putting food on her plate. But my neice doesn't stop. My nephew says something to her like "why aren't you stopping too", and my neice says "well, she didn't tell me to stop". Seriouisly!?!?! Then as I'm making my way to my seat, my dad is b*tching about how I called him a "savage". Whatever dad! Way to set a good example in front of the grand kids.
I don't mean to complain, but my family just really urks me. They seriously want to be the next "Griswolds". Only they aren't as funny.
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