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Pregnant after 35
Maybe I'm just being a crabby b!tch today!
I sent my dad an email today. Told him about us probaby coming down earlier than we thought for Christmas. Also told him about the baby shower that we are having and that he and his wife are invited. I asked him how his week had been and how business was going (he operates an online business).
The response? Not what I had hoped for.
"Business is better so things are improving. We haven't made any plans at all about anything so I expect we will be here regardless, especially since Nancy is working too."
That was it. I was hoping for a little excitement. I only talk to him when I initiate contact. He never asks me how I'm doing or anything about the baby. I am constantly updating my FB in the hope that something will interest him.
Maybe he is mad because I didn't wish him and his wife a happy 6 year anniversary. That was kind of hard to do since they celebrated 2 days before the 8 yr anniversary of my mom's death. Yes. I guess I am bitter. There are 11 other damn months in the year. They couldn't have picked a different month to get married? They had to get married within 2 days of the anniversary of her death? Sorry to get on that tangent! 
I guess I'm being over sensitive huh???
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Re: Maybe I'm just being a crabby b!tch today!
No, you aren't being crabby. My dad never asks me about the baby, or how I am feeling, but he asks about my teens all the time lol. I think it is just their generation.
I bet he gets on board when the baby gets here.
((Hugs)) Sorry about losing your mother, I can't imagine it ever gets easier.
Thanks! We no longer live in the same state so maybe that is part of it too. I know I can't worry about it though. lol. Maybe it's a man thing too!
There are definitely some times that are harder than others. It's most sad that she won't meet this baby. She loved my boys so much and had such great relationships with them.
I think I posted this to someone else around here yesterday....
But NO ONE is going to be as psyched for your baby than you and your husband. Really. Except for maybe a grandmother/mother.
It's like a wedding. You get all wrapped up in the details and the planning and the excitement. But outsiders, especially relatives who don't live nearby, usually don't get all that jazzed. It's just not something they think about constantly like you do. Don't take it personally.
And he's a man, too. Stereotypical, but a lot of older men get that "been there, done that" attitude and just don't express themselves the same way a woman would.
Probably the part that upset me the most was the fact that we haven't seen them since our wedding in May. When he found out we were going to be able to come down earlier for Christmas than we thought I guess I was expecting him to be excited about that. Not just about the baby, but about seeing us.