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my eyes were almost swollen shut this morning
from crying so much last night
DH and I talked about the whole situation with his family last night. Well, mostly I talked and cried (damn pg hormones). He doesn't want his brother and his family there every night either. He is going to call and try to talk to his brother again today. He said that when he called his brother yesterday he woke him up and it was difficult to have a good conversation with him (so why didn't he just call him back later?!). I told DH that I am not packing a thing until he talks to him. I would love to just NOT go but then I would feel like DD is being punished for something that doesn't have to do with her. She is so excited about going to visit her grandparents. It is all she has talked about for weeks. I hate all this damn family drama.
Glad this baby is due near the holidays so I know I won't have to travel or deal with all this then:)
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Re: my eyes were almost swollen shut this morning
You DO sound like a hormonal mess.
Your DD is totally excited to go see her grandparents and cousins? Your DH is excited to see his family? And you're pitching such a fit that you caused your DH to walk out and then you whined/yelled and cried about it all night once he got back. Good thing you're pregnant so you have an excuse for overreacting so much.
Your DH either will convince his brother to not stay every night, or it won't happen. But you need to chill out and make the best of it and not harass your DH any more. We call it "family time" because the family gets together. If you have to hear a 3 mo old in the next room, so be it. That's your neice/nephew and your kid's 1st cousin. Jeebuz.
If you are the same lunatic who was pissed that your DH wanted to go visit his recently-deceased-father's gravesite on Father's Day, I renew my prediction that your marriage will not make it many more years.
And another comment.
When you go to a hotel room, each person gets about 100 square feet, or less, of space, if you calculate it that way, for a family of 3 or 4. There could easily be a baby or loud kids or a 'loud couple' (LOL) in the next room, and those walls are pretty thin. Why is it such a darn BFD to stay at your in-laws' house with your DH's brother's family too? Maybe for them it's a bit of a getaway where the MIL serves food and they get a break from their own routine, so it's kind of like a little family vacation even though their house is 10 minutes away?
I'm guessing you wouldn't be so damnedpissedoff if your MIL/FIL had rented a beach house somewhere fabulous and tropical and all of you were staying in it!
I had a night like that recently. It blows. I even went to bed with a cold washcloth over my eyes to try to keep the swelling down, but it didn't work so good.
Hope your situation resolves itself in the best way possible!
Gibs-
I'm not the one who had a gravesite issue on father's day. I'm not sure where you got that I need a particular amount of square feet per person. A beach house wouldn't matter-I still wouldn't want to stay with these people 24 hours a day for 7 days.
Apparently from all your comments, you get along great with all of your family. That is great and I am jealous (gasp! yep jealous of gibs!).
Of course she does. She lives in her mother's basement! Or maybe MIL? That would be even better.