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Babies: 6 - 9 Months
how about some horrible in-law stories before the weekend?
here's mine... we spent a's first christmas with my in-laws. i think it might be our last. they wanted to go to tahoe, because dh's pa died last christmas and they wanted to be somewhere where it wouldn't hurt as much. i understand that. however... they all fight with each other all the time, and when we travel with them, we're trapped with them. christmas dinner, dh's uncle is just trying to start a fight and he's mean to the waitress at the restaurant we're at. eventually, dh's brother goes for it when uncle flips him off from the hall behind our table. they argue with tons of expletives for a long time... bil says, "i will put you in the ground old man!"... h had to physically restrain bil... eventually great grandmother flips and shouts that she hates all of us...
and that was lo's first christmas. my one consolation is that our waitress said she was writing a book, so maybe this will be good material.
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Re: how about some horrible in-law stories before the weekend?
Can I call it early? FTW
Or you can just have sex with him and have him pay you
ETA: posted pic from last night, my bad!
that is awesome.
Really? I mean, reeeallly????
at least they are hilarious, right? the next day, uncle says that when he asked bil if he wanted to go outside, it was so they could discuss their differences without bothering other patrons.
mm hmm. at least bil had the decency to be embarrassed.
If you have several in-laws and you don't have a bad story about them does that mean you and your family members are the bad ones?? Maybe that's why they call themselves the in-laws and us the out-laws??
Mine isn't an IL story but from my dad however I like him about as much as a grain of salt so I think that kinda counts?
I got a nasty email from him today saying that he's very disappointed in me and how I don't make time for him to see DS. He lives in Houston and I live in Austin, he's 3 hours away. He's been here 4 times in the last 6 months that I know of to see my stepsisters kids for an entire weekend. He's met DS once for 30 minutes on his way out of the city. He's disappointed that my FIL who lives in Albany, NY gets to see him more. HELLO!!!! He flies down to see us!
It took everything I have in me not to write a nasty email back.
that sucks! my fil just never sees us at all. h's parents are divorced and his mom's side is hilariously dysfunctional but his dad is just never here. he remarried and spends more time with his new wife's children (who are great, don't get me wrong...). i just know it hurts my h that his dad has only seen lo once since he was born in september. they don't live that far away.
My FIL used to live up the street, and saw Gavin only about 3 times in six months. We moved 20 minutes away from our previous city, and FIL works here as well, yet he still has not come to see him. I just don't get it. He is the happiest, proudest grandpa whenever he does see Gavin, but doesn't make the effort to visit him more often.
I could go on forever and ever with some great stories, but here are a couple of the good (mild) ones. (The real juicy ones could take me days)
She offered to watch Noah while I went to a two hour baptism class. The day before I asked her if she was sure she could watch him because if not my dad could. She said that it wouldn't be a problem. So the class ends up getting done an hour early. I get back to her house to find that she isn't there and Noah is with a neighbor. Yeah, so I will never be leaving Noah with her again.
When she labels the pictures she takes of Noah on her computer they are all labeled with Noah's "firsts". "Noah's first lunch out, Noah's first time sitting up." I want to go through her computer and add "with grandma" to all of her titles because not a single thing she labeled as his first was actually his first.
And her new thing is buying things for Noah, and then not giving them to us unless we have been at her house for a significant enough time. She uses the excuse that she needs to get pictures of us opening the gifts. Then she gets angry when he doesn't have his Valentines/St.Patricks etc. things on time. As if we haven't seen her at least twice a week since he has been born. If she didn't give it to him on time it isn't really my problem.
Oh, I totally would have. I wouldn't have been able to stop the fingers from flying.
Huh? Why was he with a neighbor? Did you leave LO with said person??
1.) MIL told me that because I have a "mental disorder" that she wants to take DD away from me and DH
2.) SIL had a son and told me I was jealous of her because she had a healthy baby boy and my son died
3.) MIL told me the worst day of her life was when I married her son and "stole" him from her.
oh yeah and Im a bi-polar alcoholic...
cheers
I most definitely did not leave him with the neighbor. I dropped him off with my MIL. MIL had to drop my SIL off at a meeting and left my son with the neighbor while she was out.