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Can I just vent a sec?

RissNRussRissNRuss member
in June 2013 Moms

Ok... mini-background. I am the oldest of two.. except when I moved out, my parents each remarried, making me the dead center of 7. I'm close with my stepsis and stepbro on mom's side, so much that I usually just say sister or brother. So brother married back in '05, and it didn't work out, and in '07 he met wife #2. Cool, she seems sweet and we all try to really include her in the family. Flash forward to the last year or so. She and bro are going on kiddo #3 (due in about 8 weeks, yay!). Right before #2 was born, they had to move, to be closer to her church. Ok, they were like an hour away, so fine, she wants more than 10 minutes between them and family. There's alot of us, it gets crazy ok. So now they are living an hour from my stepdad, and an hour and a half from his exwife (bro's mom). My mom and stepdad have given them shelter through major storms where they lost power, bought them a gunsafe when Baby #1 arrived, helped them update the house to sell, and then spent a 16 hour day moving them with NO offer of food or thanks. They are really awesome, a bit overbearing at times, but with the best of intentions.

So... reason for the major vent. The last 5 months or so have been really bad- between us finding out the kids are hospitalized via Instagram or Facebook (seriously, call your dad bro!), or snide commentary about putting my mom in a nursing home (she's not even 60, and besides being a tad forgetful, she's in pretty good health overall) and SIL getting to choose said nursing home... grr. Now she's started up with monthly posts about how wonderful and perfect and special bro's mom is on facebook. But come on... my mom does just as much for them. Ok, she won't pay for their vacations, but she doesn't pay for mine either! I want to smack her and my brother. They basically haven't let my mom and stepdad see the kids much at all- they don't even really know them. It is so sad and makes my heart hurt.

My kiddo will have 6 grandparents because of the remarriages. I doubt my stepmom or stepdad will have kiddo without my parent there too, at least not often just based on  how the parents are in general, but I want the kiddo to know them all.

Ok... vent out... thanks for listening... here's Topher in his amusement for your patience! 

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