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August 2012 Moms
mmdailey
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S/O Family Guilt vent
mmdailey
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Gah! This is not how I wanted to spend my weekend! So, as some of you may remember, my air conditioner went out this month. It costs 250 bucks to fix. Normally, this wouldn't be a huge deal, but this happens to be the month where I only get paid from one school instead of my normal two, so I was forced to ask my parents for money. I hate doing this because I hate owing people money and my parents will always do it, but they'll always remind me of my debt.
So, my mom called me Thursday and said she had a meeting Friday morning at 930, so she'd come over before then and drop off the check and have a cup of coffee. She told me to call her when baby was up so she wouldn't wake her. Fine. When I called her yesterday at 730, I told her we were up. She told me she hasn't slept well and still had to go to her meeting and she had not even started getting ready. I figured that meant she was postponing her plans. I couldn't be more wrong! She instead shows up at 1130, tells me my dad is right behind her and they want lunch. Mind you, we are still in pjs because it's my one day a week I get to sleep past 6. I explain to her how I need to go shopping and I don't have much in the house for lunch. Then my dad shows up and while I'm picking up the living room, since I had no warning, she tells my dad when he mentions he is hungry that I was supposed to make him lunch, but that I was ignoring them. I told her I wasn't ignoring them; I just hadn't made plans to feed everyone lunch. To this, she said, "We're loaning you 250 dollars and you can't make us a sandwich? That's pretty sad!" I had no comeback.
Then today, my dad calls me at 9 and asks if I can give him a haircut later today. I say sure but to call ahead of time, since the baby might be sleeping. I finally get the baby wrangled into falling asleep at about noon and I decide that since she has had us up since 6 that I would go ahead and take a nap too. Of course right when we both go asleep, he calls. I ignore the call and fall asleep. Then, about 10 minutes later, I hear my dogs barking downstairs. I finally get up at 12:42 and there are 3 missed calls on my phone and a voicemail. I call him back and he says, "I called and came over. I did everything I was supposed to. I even called from your living room and no one answered!" This means he used his key to let himself in while I was asleep. I said, "Well if I didn't answer, don't you think I may be asleep or something?" He keeps insisting he did everything right and "It's ok, I'll just wait for your mom to get home to cut my hair." I said, "Are you sure? We are up now." And he says, "I've already been out today. I'm not going out anymore." I reply, "OK" and he hangs up on me.
I swear, if I didn't have kids in my house, I would have waited till July to fix my ac and just silently suffered through the 100 plus degree weather. Grr.
Thank you if you got this far. I owe you (and my parents)!
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Re: S/O Family Guilt vent
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She's all about the passive aggressive guilt trips! That's her MO!
We must have the same mom! She's always saying stuff to try and make me feel like crap lol. Mostly followed up with "oh I was just joking".
Sorry you have to deal with that crap, but you're a great mom for putting up with it to keep your kids cool!
Totally! I go through the same too, except mine says "What? I can't just talk to you anymore?" when she says something that offends or irritates me. DH also puts up with my mom for both me and Avie, so that there's "peace" around us.
Mine says that too, or just, "You're too sensitive!"