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Come on, you know you want to get on board the in-law venting train!
Wife, Musician, Fed, WW-er, and Mom of three little kids - not necessarily in that order.
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Re: Come on, you know you want to get on board the in-law venting train!
ditto this. My FIL is the nicest man on the planet and does really thoughtful things for us and DD. I know DH would give anything to have his mom see DD (she passed away 20 years ago).
My ILs are great with J, and he's very comfortable with them even though we don't see them that often. My biggest baby-related complaint with them is that they give him too much stuff. Every time we see them, they bring more toys and so many clothes. They're sending him Valentine's Day outfits, for chrissakes! That and we do get a lot of "Well, in our day we didn't use seatbelts/started rice cereal at two weeks (!)/put babies face down to sleep and [DH] turned out just fine!" etc etc.
Their relationship with me and DH is a whole different story . . .
TTC #2: BFP 12/17/11, m/c 1/7/12 and D&C 1/12/12
baby blog/cooking blog
I also love my in laws. Sure, they've got their flaws, but the person I'm most excited about telling about the baby is my MIL.
My parents, however, leave much to be desired. I could *** about them all day and all night. And I'm sure I will.
mm 2/17/11 * dd born 4/20/12 * bo 1/3/14 * edd 1/21/ 1/15
I have awesome ILs (partially because my MIL has her own hellish MIL herself, and knows better).
ETA: I do not envy yours or Jitterbug's at all.
I jumped on board on the Nestie side too but I will gladly get it off my chest here too.
The ILs are mad that someone else cuts his hair other than his mom. He had long hair and recently got it all cut off by the guy that cuts his hair (and my hair). Instead of his dad giving him a nice compliment it was, "We don't understand why you don't let your mother cut your hair."
I get that she was a hairstylist for forever and that she used to cut my DH's hair till he was in college but people, she cut it like he was still 5.
DH is now afraid that he's going to pick DS up from her house one day and Bambino's hair will be cut....trying not to preemptive panic
My IL's are 85 and 81 respectively, and don't have central air or a proper heating system in their house. Not to mention that they have junk everywhere!
They always complain that they don't see DS enough and that when we do come to visit we stay at SIL's house. Sorry, I value my son's safety, and I don't want him to get hurt by going to their house!
Well I'm glad I'm not the only one that was having a "bad inlaw" kinda day. Now if I could only get DH to stop asking me whats wrong... Whats wrong you fool is that you went behind my back without regard for my thoughts or feelings!!
I better stop while I'm ahead... I'm still pretty fired up about it. ::running to get my coffee so I can calm down::
Well, twist my arm...
My MIL is going to drive me insane if she doesn't stop calling. This is the woman who called every day for 2 weeks before H was born asking if we had any news. Since H has arrived now she calls every other day. (It was every day but she settled into this schedule now.) And she always calls in the evening when H is fussy which means I have to watch her -after watching her solo all day while she's been fussy- while DH talks to her for 15 minutes about nothing. Literally, she's either telling him the same stories again and again, or asking us for pictures for the umpteenth time...
The other day she said she was up all night worrying about us the first night we were without power during the snow. I think I want to get her a prescription for valium and a notepad so she can stop freaking out over everything and remember whatever she is just dying to tell us so we can go to maybe 2x weekly calls.