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misjenn
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My random vents: My nights of Throw up and SIL's
misjenn
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Last night Em kept complaining that her tummy hurt (she does this frequently around bed time usually to postpone going to sleep), so I told her that going to sleep would make her tummy feel better that she was just tired. She keeps crying complaining and I keep going in to check on her. I stand her up in front of me to check her throat, head, etc and she throws up all over me and the carpet in her room. She is hysterical, so I calm her down, get her to rinse and spit, drink some water and put her in our bed. Around 2am she starts throwing up all over our bed, walls, herself, us, carpets. Ugh it was bad she was running a fever at this point. I am rushing to get a trash can, which she does a couple more times into, I put her in the shower, get her all cleaned up and just let her sit in there for a while.I am stripping the bed, scrubbing carpets (this is about 3:30 now) getting laundry started. She proceeds to tell me she feels all better. YAY! No more throw up no more spaghetti for a while. I have cleaned everything over and over with carpet solution, vinegar, and even laundry detergent and my house still smells like throw up. I really hope no one is wanting to look at the house because it will be a no go.
Small vent. My SIL called us yesterday to ask DH which she should get the ipad or the mac Air. She is using the money that her parents and guests got her to buy this item. Which is whatever this is why I didn't give her $$. But what irritates me is that her dad recently lost his job, hasn't found another one, she still accepted 10K from her parents that was suppose to get stuff for baby she is pg with all this after they just spent 15K on a wedding in Vegas treating her husbands friends to a weekend of free meals at really nice restaurants. So stupid for me to be irritated about but I would never take money from my parents especially if they just lost their job.
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Re: My random vents: My nights of Throw up and SIL's
I'm glad E is feeling better.
And regarding your SIL, some people just aren't as compassionate as others and see their parents only as a personal ATM. Like you, I wouldn't accept any money from anyone I knew was in a financial bind but I know many who do not share the same sentiment.
Poor girl! Ha, you know, I vaguely remember getting sick from spaghetti as a kid. Its like a rite of passage. I couldn't eat tomato sauce for like two years after that incident.
And yeah, the SIL thing would frustrate me too! It reminds me of one of my cousins, who routinely mooches off his mom (who allows it), and goes off and buys ridiculously expensive things he (and his wife/kids) can't afford. It pisses me off to no end. I've noticed over the last couple of years though - his parents really enabled them to be that way, and never made them earn anything. Whether it be with grades, or cleaning, whatever.. as a kid or as an adult, he was just given everything and never really learned the value of money. Its really hard to watch, but I just try and keep it in mind as a lesson learned for my future kid. Bleh.
as for the SIL, that would irritate the bejesus out of me too. My SIL is similarly selfish, and it frustrates me that, while DH accepts no help from anyone, SIL takes from the ILs and the ILs take care of a lot of the child related expenses, even though SIL and her husband make more than we do and their mortgage is half what ours is. But that's not something I or you can change, and I can only hope our children will not be raised to be so selfish.