another MIL rant

CBomback · April 2013

Ok, today she was working my last nerve. MIL comes every Tuesday to "help out". Except, she's not helping me because there's nothing for her to do.

First thing she starts in on telling me what LO's cries mean. She's nearly 5 weeks old, I know my daughter better than anyone else, and I know what her cries mean. I don't need someone telling me how to take care of her needs!

Then, she snooped through our trash and read some cards that I threw out. I know she read them because they were under some other garbage, and I had used them to push the trash into the can, so they were creased in the face-down direction I put them in. Suddenly, they're at the top of the can, face-up. Seriously? Who goes through someone else's garbage to read their personal mail?

Then, she said she wanted to stick her finger in LO's mouth since she was crying a bit and we don't give her a paci during the day (she doesn't really like them). Are. You. Kidding. Me? You just dug around in my kitchen trash and now you want to stick your finger in my baby's mouth? Needless to say, this mama was running over with a paci. Plus, it just grosses me out that anyone besides me or my husband would think it appropriate to stick a finger in her mouth. Not cool.

Then, she did every stalling tactic she could think of to stay past the time she was supposed to leave (I have to place limits of 4 hours with her for my sanity). Including, hey, the baby's crying, so shouldn't I stay until you have everything under control? Um, baby's cry - that does not mean that things are out of control. What it does mean is that baby is picking up on mom's stress at an overbearing MIL who WILL NOT LEAVE.

Grrrr. Ok, rant over.