Since I'm still awake and bored, AND annoyed, I figured I'd start this off early.
I'll nominate my FIL's girlfriend. This lady has zero personality, and does NOT know the meaning of boundaries. Just over this weekend alone, she's managed to piss off half of the family. Starting Friday night, she gave my one year old coffee. All because he kept reaching for her cup. Apparently that makes it okay? Then while we had DS's first birthday party, she went out of her way to invite several people without asking me or my husband. We had no idea these people were coming until they knocked on the front door.
Since last week DH's grandmother was in the hospital and she keeps bragging about how she and my FIL are paying for her hospital bills (when in reality, not a penny has come out of her own pocket). Then because she used to work at the L&D (she worked in the records portion of the floor) she thinks that she can start throwing around medical advice. She seriously said that they should tell the nurses to stop giving the grandmother her pain meds if she refuses to eat!
And finally, she's been "reaching out" to my husband's aunts and uncles about them reconciling with their mother before she passes away.... she's pissed off several people in the course of 3 days... i could write a book just from the stuff she's done in the last 6 months.
Can I nominate my alarm clock? I so did not want to get up this morning. I hit snooze 4 times, and said screw the shower. Being clean is overrated anyway.
I nominate myself for having zero motivation when it comes to work. I have just stopped caring. I have so much to do and just don't want to do any of it. I was also just informed that I have to travel to Cincinnati in mid-March and really do not want to go. I'm tempted to say that my dr doesn't want me traveling but I know they'll ask for a note. I really want nothing to do with my job anymore.
I wanted to nominate the snow, but I just got the call that we're closed for the day. Spending the day in jammies with DS doesn't sound so bad... so thanks, snow!
Snow. We are only on a 2 hour delay today, which is JUST enough time to mess up everything I had planned, and not enough to be a legit excuse to not have accomplished things in a timely fashion. Thanks mother nature!
Also, my cat keeps trying to sleep on my keyboard while I am trying to type. Cute, but annoying.
DHs work is the twatwaffle. He got rear ended last week in a company vehicle on the clock and sprained a neck muscle, and had a slight concussion. So obviously he's a mechanic so he can't work while on muscle relaxers and on a limited work load. So his manager tells him to stay home so that workmans comp will cover him, he gets sent to the workmans comp doctor, does everything he has to and then gets told by the lady in the office "oh well you weren't out long enough to qualify". He was out a whole work week and did everything his manager told him to do to get qualified for coverage. Luckily he and his manager are calling HR today to find out WTF is going on and to get a copy of the insurance statement saying they won't cover him instead of someone just saying "oh well". The best part is he got hit while coming back to the shop after fixing the flat tire of the other company vehicle which was taken to Dunkin donuts by an employee who wasn't supposed to be there.
Props if you read all that. I've been so stressed I've given myself acid reflux. Guess I'll work on the nursery today to calm myself down.
My co-worker gets today's vote and I haven't even walked into work yet! Ugh every single day she can't come because well yesterday the roads were bad... Ok well I drove 40 min in a ice storm and still made it... Now today her son is sick..... Sure he is! That kid is sick more than any kid I have ever met! So f#ing annoying!! Ugh my rant is over she moves in June so let the count down begin!
Also nominating weather. School is cancelled, again. Students haven't been there since last Wednesday, and we only had yesterday off. I used a personal day today that I put plans together for last week cause I knew it wasn't likely we would be there Thursday or Friday and now I don't have a sub. At least I get my personal day back, but seriously this is out of control.
I have to nominate someone I know through my business. She takes the "humble brag" on FB to a new extreme. She has two kids, and her son (who is 2) has been in the hospital 27+ times (yes, 27. Not a typo) since he was born with breathing and lung issues. She brags about how she constantly takes time off work to take him to the hospital and care for him. What... else would you do? Ship him off to daycare?
What she fails to mention is that she is a 2-3 pack per day smoker. Every doctor she's ever been to has said that this directly contributes to his issues, and have urged her to quit. Spare me with the "I'm such a good mom" crap.
Everyone except you ladies. That's all I got. Literally, just talking today makes me hate you. DH, whining C (I don't hate my daughter, I hate the whining), coworkers, boss, boss's boss, random lady on the conference call I have to set up once a quarter....all of them. And Mother Nature. I hate the snow, and I hate it more when I'm in charge of clearing the driveway. Blergh.
Anthem Blue Cross and their nonfunctional search for providers tool! Now I get to call individual doctors offices to see who is in network because this big ass insurance company can't have an online search that works. Or customer service people who know anything when you call. Yes, I too can read my benefits information. I'm calling for more details which you apparently can't tell me. So how do you determine what I should pay if no one knows the details about covered amounts or allowances. Canada is looking better & better everyday
The thought of Münchausen syndromehas definitely crossed my mind. We aren't exactly friends, and even if we were I don't know that I'd have the balls to say anything. I'm not sure you can call CPS for a parent smoking (even excessively) around their kids. It's not a mystery how the kid is getting sick; I would have thought the hospital that they are VIPs at would have pursued that avenue further if that was an option?
My body - I'm starting to get to that angry stage of pregnancy where everything hurts, I feel like a giant cow and no matter what I do I cannot get comfortable in any position.
1) my insurance. Our plan has some good points to it, but mostly it sucks. No one knows how to bill it because the name on the card doesn't match the payor ID they need to submit, so I have to wait for denied bills and resubmit them to get them covered, it takes 8 weeks at best, but I'm still waiting on one from August to clear properly.
2) Said insurance's crappy provider options. There are 34 OB's in my area and I can see 2. One was such an ass that I cried leaving his office. The other is a half hour drive, and only works at a hospital 45 minutes away. Not terrible until I remember that I share a car with DH and there is no bus service out that way. They also will only cover 40% of midwife bills so that isn't an option.
3) The scale. Mostly the eating disorder voice in the back of my head that has been creeping up.
I have the longest nomination ever and I'm sorry but if I didn't explain the whole situation, you would never truly understand how big of a Twatwaffle she is...
My stupid, stupid SIL.
Some of you might remember this thread - I didn’t want to announce to her because we found out that she recently had a MC and that they had been trying for baby #2 with no luck. WELL…she didn’t actually have a MC – she only told her Dad that because she wanted the attention. We had talked to their Mom about it (we’re super close to both of them – they’ve been divorced since my H was 2) and she ended up asking my SIL about it. Her response was, “Well, we did it at the right time so I should have been pregnant. And then I got super crampy and my period was SO heavy.” THIS…..THIS MAKES ME SO UPSET. How DARE she! But, this is his sister, the attention seeking whore. And I’m sorry but I have no pity on her because I’ve known too many people that actually WENT through a MC and my heart aches for those people. So my H decided that we tell his whole family all at the same time on Thanksgiving. I agreed since this was his family and I was fine with however he wanted to go about it. When we arrived she got right in my face and said, “Any news yet? Huh? Huh? You pregnant yet?” RUDE. I replied with a fake smile and a ‘we’re working on it’, since we wanted to wait until more people got there. When everyone got there and the Packer game was going to start in like 10 minutes, we went behind the bar (we were at his Mom’s and they have an awesome basement) and we made sure everyone had a drink in hand and my H announced what he practiced. Everyone started saying Congrats! And How exciting! She on the other hand, who happened to be right across from me says, ‘So wait…you’re ACTUALLY pregnant???’ To which I respond, ‘yep’. She gives me an awful look…more like a glare, whispers something to her husband, grabs her drink and says (in a very snotty tone) “I’m going upstairs.” Imagine my shock. *When I told my H I didn’t want to tell her, he assured me that she would be very happy for us and supportive just like he was when she told him she was pregnant with her 1st.
At this point I didn’t know what to say so I went along and chatted with everyone else that was super excited for us. After a while I asked my H if he could go upstairs to grab our U/S pics. He went upstairs and she was bawling her eyes out on the couch. Tells him she’s just really sad because she’s not pregnant and to not tell me. He quickly grabs the pics and comes back downstairs. She literally spent the whole first half of the football game upstairs crying. She came back down during halftime and as I was in mid-conversation with someone she comes up to me and gives me this awkward half hug and says, “I still love you guys.” Like we did something wrong??? I said I needed to use the bathroom and walked away because I was so mad.
After dinner, her mom asked her to move her stuff out of the spare room and into the office so that her H’s Dad and his wife could spend the night because they were too tired to drive back. She threw a hissy fit about this and went into said office (where we had our coats and a few other things) and started throwing our stuff around to get it out of her way so she could throw their stuff into the office. OMG – the grandparents are in their 80s! And just because she’s a ‘bigger’ girl, she doesn’t like to sleep on a futon. I literally had to walk over to the hallway and pick my coat up off the floor because that’s where she threw it. I was like, “If you need something moved, you could just ask us.” I MEAN SERIOUSLY??
Then later after most people had left, I was upstairs packing up our stuff to leave and she comes up to me and asks where my H was. He was in the bathroom. She says, ‘Any idea what you guys want for Xmas?’ REALLY?? I just sort of shook my head and said, “we did give a list to your mom with some movies on it but other than that, Amazon gift cards would be nice since we’re just trying to save up for baby.” She then says (in that lovely snotty tone again), “Well I guess if you have a boy you can have all the stuff in our basement seeing as though you’ll probably have your kid before we even get pregnant with a second.” I just looked at her and said, “No thanks, my sister has saved up all her clothes for us so we should be good.”
We said our goodbyes and left. A half an hour down the road I realized all of my black Friday ads were missing from our stuff. So I called to see if I had left them behind and sure enough, when she was throwing things around the office, she put them where no one would look. I said, ‘Ok, no big deal, I’ll just go buy another one.’ Told them they could use those as fire starters in the fireplace. Then later, my MIL called back saying my SIL could drop them off on Friday on their way home – which wouldn’t be until the afternoon. And I said, ‘No, that’s fine, I need them tonight to plan out my morning so it’s not a big deal, I already bought another paper.’ My MIL and I are pretty close and she realized something was wrong and asked. I told her that we were both pretty pissed off that ‘SIL’ couldn’t even say Congrats to us and then walk away and deal with her own issues then and that she had to make this all about her, just like everything else. And left it at that.
Black Friday – my H goes to work and I set off to go shopping. I was out all day and decided to go home, grab some food and continue shopping online because I was sick of standing in lines. Our doorbell rings – it’s literally like 2p.m. I look outside and their car is in our driveway. I contemplated pretending like I wasn’t home but then answered the door. It was my SIL’s H – he hands me the paper (obviously they don’t listen) and then says, ‘You know ‘SIL’ is happy for you guys right? She’s just having a hard time because of our situation.’ ARE YOU FRICKEN KIDDING ME??? YOU SEND YOUR H TO DO YOUR DIRTY WORK??? I literally said, ‘Well, that’s great and all, but she has an awful way of showing it. Her reaction was very hurtful to me and H and it was pretty crappy of her.’ And I said thanks for bringing the paper and shut the door.
A few days go by and SIL tries to call H like a week later and can’t leave a message because H hasn’t set up his VM on his new phone. So she calls her mom and asks if we’re really that upset about this. MIL says ummm, yes they are upset and they have a right to be. So SIL publicly says something to him on FB. (She’s the most annoying FB friend in the entire world, literally has FB diarrhea of the mouth). In the meantime, MIL calls me and starts asking me why H hasn’t called her back, etc. etc. H was shopping in a mall and had no reception. So when H gets home, I told him he needed to call his sister and tell her to stop this. He ends up talking to her and she starts crying and throwing on the pity party saying her reaction was THE ONLY WAY she could have reacted and that we just don’t understand and blah blah blah. To which my H responded, ‘You are an adult, you choose how to respond to something. You could have put on a happy face for 2 minutes and said congrats and then went and dealt with whatever, but you chose to be rude.’ Then she argued with him and spoke over him and finally he said, ‘we’re going to agree to disagree here, you should just drop it.’ She kept saying things like ‘I’m sorry…but…’ or I’m sorry you took it that way’ which to us, is not a heartfelt apology. He was very disappointed in the whole conversation.
5 days later…she messages me on FB. She just can’t leave this alone. Says she wants to ‘smooth things over from Thanksgiving and that she’s trying to move past the whole situation because that’s what my H wants but it seems like I’m still mad at her. (Funny since she didn’t talk to me at all during this whole time). And that I should correct her if she’s wrong. She never meant any harm to us and she’s sorry she hurt my feelings. She never meant to cause any tension between all of us and she wants us to be on good terms again and that no matter what she loves us and wishes the best to us, ‘despite her own emotional problems’ <--her words not mine. Then she says she never intended to hurt us and that their own shortcomings with failing to get pregnant should not take away from our happiness.
Even though this came at a bad time, I thought it was an ok apology, but I was still angry that she couldn’t let it go. And I was sick of being so stressed out because of this. My response was very thought out and I basically repeated everything my H said to her. Here it is:
“You are absolutely right, it shouldn't have taken away from our happiness, but it did. I was right there when H talked to you. I know he tried to explain the situation and that you refused to see that it could have gone any other way. That is your choice, and the reason that H has said to just move past it, because you will never see it from our point of view. I fear that the only way that you would actually understand, is if someone did the same to you - and I sincerely hope you never have to go through that. What hurts me the most is seeing H upset about this. I've never seen him happier about anything in the entire time that I've known him, he's very excited to be a father and for his own sister to not be supportive and loving towards him because of things happening in her own life is super upsetting, to both of us. I know that we will never fully understand what you are going through right now, and that doesn't mean we aren't sympathetic to it, but please try to put yourself in our shoes for a second and realize how hurtful your reaction and your words to us were. I accept your apology and thank you for doing that. Please understand though that I will have a really hard time forgetting this. This is our first child, this is our first experience with any of this - especially the emotions and that just wasn't an emotion that I was ready to deal with and I'm trying to get past it, but it's not easy. If my sister would have reacted that way, I probably would never talk to her again. But I know that my sister would never do that. And to be fair, I didn't want to even tell you in person because I was afraid of your reaction and didn't want to even deal with something like this happening, but your brother was the one that stood up for you saying that you wouldn't do that to us, that you would be happy and supportive, etc. etc. So I believed him - and then this happened. Which I think you can see now why it's even more upsetting to both of us...”
Harsh? Probably. But like I said – I was SO sick of stressing about this and talking about it. She never responded, but later that night my H got an email from her H. Again, she sends her H to do her dirty work. SMH. He tells us that we are the selfish ones here for not understanding and that we SHOULD have told them before telling anyone else and we should have done this and we should have done that, etc. etc. My H was so pissed off…he didn’t even respond. He was like, “I’m done. Just done.”
So Christmas rolls around and we had to see them at 3 different houses. The first house she kept coming up to me and touching me and trying to hug me and I was getting SO angry. Like seriously – I would rather a stranger touch my belly bump. I think she got the hint to back off because she wasn’t so touchy feely at the other 2 places. She’s very rude though…like got her mom a box of Weight Watchers food, which MIL didn’t ask for. Who does that? And then she got me a bottle of wine – HELLO? You’ve known for a month that I’m pregnant…whatever. And while giving her 3 y/o a bath, she left him in the bathtub to come watch tv - she LEFT HIM BY HIMSELF. I told H we had to leave...I was so angry.
After Christmas, she decided to delete and block me on FB. Aw shucks! I didn’t have to see how constipated she was on FB anymore. She kept my H as a friend so anything I tagged him in, she would see anyway. She literally likes EVERYTHING – every comment, photo, etc. But anything we posted about baby, she didn’t ‘like’ but her H did. Then we announced that we were having a girl and her H liked the post. 8 days after that, my H posted a thank you for a little present that was sent to us in the mail to some of our friends saying that we’d take a pic of her with the present. And SIL commented saying, ‘I didn’t know you were having a girl – congratulations!’ FIRST OF ALL – OMG that word IS in her vocabulary! And second of all – I guess her and her H don’t talk? I don’t see any of her posts so literally I hear these things from my H – and he was super annoyed. Because then he gets an email from his mom saying ‘I know you called your brother and told him you were having a girl but did you call your sister because I’m getting questioned over here’. His brother lives in FL and is barely on FB so yes he called him. And it was his decision to NOT call his sister and I don’t blame him. If she really thought he was going to personally call her to tell her after the way she reacted to our original news, she’s stupid.
Then on Valentine’s Day she posts “I love you, my brother, and not just bc it’s a holiday for love! Happy VD!” He was so weirded out by that, he just ignored it. (Who says VD btw? Happy Venereal Disease! Whoop!)
So here is the latest…man this post is long and if you’re still reading you get a gold star for the day! On Sunday she posts something that super pisses my H off. She’s been known to publicly post things on FB about family and get herself in a lot of trouble. She ended up posting something, CLEARLY about us but didn’t say our names. She is also known to be a very high and mighty person because SHE goes to church and she knows better and she’s better than everyone else. (This also really pisses my H off). She says,
“Today's sermon: how the weight of the sin of anger is equates to the weight of the sin of murder, and to go and make things right between you and others before presenting your offerings to God, or you will be subject to the fires of hell (or, thrown in jail, in their time). All week, I've had it in my head to make something right that's never really healed properly, despite previous attempts. It even came up in the worst of moments during the week. I remember how I've tried once already to make things right (a few times), but to not much success. Now, after one more attempt, I find that I may not be able to try again, at all or for a very long time (when next an opportunity should present itself). I've been shut out, in more ways than one. I feel sick. What do I take away from this? Is it too late? Maybe for someone else's forgiveness...but, what about God? It's never too late with Him, I know. And, I know He knows my heart. But, will they ever? I just don't know. I guess God's the only one who can intercede for me, now. Thank God for God! Let no one boast of themselves, in any way. For all goodness comes from the Lord.”
My H looked at me and said, “I just want to say ‘did God make you act like such a C*N#?’” I don’t even know what to say – this is so stupid and childish and I’m so over it!!! I just don’t want anything to do with her. I don’t want her to come visit us in the hospital, I don’t want her to touch my child, I don’t want to talk to her and I don’t want to hear any advice she’s been trying to give to my H. How can I get this woman to BACK THE F OFF??? And she keeps dragging her poor mom in the middle when she has clearly asked all of us to be kept OUT of the middle. Honestly…we think she is bipolar. She’s all over the place, just like some others in her extended family that have been diagnosed with it, she’s up, she’s down, she’s ‘SO DEPRESSED’ blah blah blah. I’m sick of the pity party - go get help! I've also recently found out that she has a crappy job so that they purposefully don't make enough money so that the state pays for everything. She has to hurry up and actually HAVE baby #2 before #1 is 5 y/o otherwise they have to pay for their own groceries and healthcare, etc. I'm absolutely disgusted that there are people like her in the world.
@shakeweights - Yikes! I am so sorry you have to deal with so much drama. I can't imagine how anxious you are to attend any family event. Your SIL sounds like a peach. (Heavy sarcasm on that one!)
@shakeweights -
Yikes! I am so sorry you have to deal with so much drama. I can't imagine how anxious you are to attend any family event. Your SIL sounds like a peach. (Heavy sarcasm on that one!)
@AndreaC428 - you get a gold star for trudging through that whole mess! LOL! You're right though, I don't want to ever be at family functions. And for her whole life - the family says things like, 'Oh, that's just 'SIL'' - and they excuse her stupidity because 'she means well'. There's only so much of that you can take...and even less when you're pregnant! I'm proud of my H for standing up to her!
I know you weren't asking for advice, but my two cents: Don't look at her fb. Tell DH not to look at her fb. If MIL, BIL, whoever, is playing messenger tell them very politely how this is making you feel and that SIL needs to communicate to you (or you and your DH) herself and not through others.
ETA: is my tagging not working? Grr... Try again: @shakeweights
@Rachel5130 - we are definitely trying to cut ties for now but she doesn't understand. Who knows if she ever will. Ugh!
@Valie18 - You're absolutely right, I did ask my H over the weekend to bring this up to his mom. I also don't need her thinking that I am the reason he has decided to distance himself from her. I refuse to be blamed for her stupidness. I don't understand why she goes to everyone else, including social media before actually TRYING to talk to her own brother. I take that back, I do...because she wants the pity.
@shakeweights I'm so sorry you have to go through this with family. I totally get you point of view and I pray that you stop letting it get to you and focus and the better part of your situation. Hopefully your SIL let's it go and go get help because it seems to me something is wrong upstairs. Hope everything gets better though after all it is your DHs sister. (Side note: I totally get that gold star, lol)
I nominate the twat waffle that takes their child to preschool sick. DD has had two tummy bugs in two weeks! She only had school one day last week because of snow and she threw up for two days after she went to school. She had school yesterday and low and behold she was up all last night puking again. Preschool isnt cheap and how is she going to learn if she is not there?
@shakeweights Yikes! I give you a ton of credit for dealing with all of that! I can't imagine... Hopefully some sort of resolution happens soon so you and your H can stop stressing and being involved in this ridiculous drama!
@shakeweights All I can suggest from my own experiences is that you remove yourself from the situation and not engage. I've found that it may not make things completely better (and it could make them worse), but it takes a lot of stress off of you.
Yup, this. I have a crazy SIL and a crazy sister. Do not engage.
My morning coffee is the TW! Pouring the coffee is the last thing I do before i skamper out the door for work. I filled it too high, and when I put the lid on it splashed all over my white shirt. So, I had to quickly find something to change into (not easy with the new bump). After all that, I forgot my coffee on the counter!
My parents dog is the twatwaffle of the day. I was working from home when we got an emergency call that my aunt, who has stage 4 cancer throughout her body, was rushed to the hospital with a brain bleed. My mom, who was watching my boys, had to leave quickly without feeding them. I decided, which I never do, to get a pizza delivered for lunch. Anyway, I didn't realize my parents crazy psycho pug was downstairs. When the pizza guy got there, i thought i had him blocked but nope, he gets past me, he's pretty small, I try to grab him and realize he has no collar. So he proceeds to bite me (more like a scrape with his teeth) on my arm and pant leg and then bites the pizza guy (he said he just got his jeans). I felt my stomach tense up when I was trying to hold him back so now I'm uncomfortable and having panic attacks that something is now wrong with the baby, which I know is irrational. Fucking dog.
@shakeweights do we have the same SIL?! Mine acted very similar during our engagment/wedding. And yes, she defriended me from facebook too. How frickin sad. What I can tell you though, is that at least with my SIL, it was all complete jealousy. It sounds like the case with your SIL too if they are trying to get pregnant (even if for the wrong reasons.)
Truthfully though, your MIL should be able to put a stop to being the middle man. All she has to do is tell SIL, "It's not my issue, work it out like adults." Maybe over and over till she gets it. Like you said, the family seems to just give in to her. I know you're trying not to involve FIL & MIL too much, but it seems like they are a lot like mine. In my opinion, you never stop being a parent. So if your kid is acting a fool at 3, 45, or effin 80, you still do something. Put a stop it, don't just shrug and say "that's just her." I think once the IL's clearly state they want no involvement, maybe SIL will back off you a bit and give you the space you need. I'd have DH block her too. At least from his newsfeed so you guys aren't bombarded all the time. And take some comfort in knowing most of the people she's FB friends with probably think shes cray cray too.
Good luck to you and your DH. I know this kind of stuff is crazy stressful and frustrating. Just keep your head up knowing you did nothing wrong. Hugs, lady!
Thanks @yellowbird219! I think I will have that conversation with my H again tonight so that he talks to his mom about it. I feel like we've done our part in keeping her out of the middle and we deserve the same thing back you know? She shouldn't be bringing things up to us that SIL cries about to her.
I've also recently found out that she has a crappy job so that they purposefully don't make enough money so that the state pays for everything. She has to hurry up and actually HAVE baby #2 before #1 is 5 y/o otherwise they have to pay for their own groceries and healthcare, etc. I'm absolutely disgusted that there are people like her in the world.
If I remember correctly, the cutoff is 5 years total per applicant, meaning Mother, not per child.
I've also recently found out that she has a crappy job so that they purposefully don't make enough money so that the state pays for everything. She has to hurry up and actually HAVE baby #2 before #1 is 5 y/o otherwise they have to pay for their own groceries and healthcare, etc. I'm absolutely disgusted that there are people like her in the world.
If I remember correctly, the cutoff is 5 years total per applicant, meaning Mother, not per child.
Oooh, interesting tidbit! I'll have to look it up since she lives in a different state than we do.
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I'll nominate my FIL's girlfriend. This lady has zero personality, and does NOT know the meaning of boundaries. Just over this weekend alone, she's managed to piss off half of the family. Starting Friday night, she gave my one year old coffee. All because he kept reaching for her cup. Apparently that makes it okay? Then while we had DS's first birthday party, she went out of her way to invite several people without asking me or my husband. We had no idea these people were coming until they knocked on the front door.
Since last week DH's grandmother was in the hospital and she keeps bragging about how she and my FIL are paying for her hospital bills (when in reality, not a penny has come out of her own pocket). Then because she used to work at the L&D (she worked in the records portion of the floor) she thinks that she can start throwing around medical advice. She seriously said that they should tell the nurses to stop giving the grandmother her pain meds if she refuses to eat!
And finally, she's been "reaching out" to my husband's aunts and uncles about them reconciling with their mother before she passes away.... she's pissed off several people in the course of 3 days... i could write a book just from the stuff she's done in the last 6 months.
I nominate the snow. Another 5 inches? Really?
Guess I'll have breakfast outside today?
PS - I still really hate the snow.
Props if you read all that. I've been so stressed I've given myself acid reflux. Guess I'll work on the nursery today to calm myself down.
Baby #1: expected June 2014
Eta: present tense/past tense issues
What she fails to mention is that she is a 2-3 pack per day smoker. Every doctor she's ever been to has said that this directly contributes to his issues, and have urged her to quit. Spare me with the "I'm such a good mom" crap.
Omg I know right. We have another snow day today. That means 2 last week, 2 the week before and 1 this week. Crazy!!!
At least I work in a private school so we don't have to make them up.
We also have the last two weeks of March off.
Married DH 7/30/11
CSC arrived 5/7/12
CHC arrived 6/2/14
@joules235 I agree! She sounds like she has Munchausen's. What healthy mother does that to her child?
The thought of Münchausen syndrome has definitely crossed my mind. We aren't exactly friends, and even if we were I don't know that I'd have the balls to say anything. I'm not sure you can call CPS for a parent smoking (even excessively) around their kids. It's not a mystery how the kid is getting sick; I would have thought the hospital that they are VIPs at would have pursued that avenue further if that was an option?
BFP: February 2016 EDD: October 17, 2016
Yikes! I am so sorry you have to deal with so much drama. I can't imagine how anxious you are to attend any family event. Your SIL sounds like a peach. (Heavy sarcasm on that one!)
I know you weren't asking for advice, but my two cents:
Don't look at her fb. Tell DH not to look at her fb. If MIL, BIL, whoever, is playing messenger tell them very politely how this is making you feel and that SIL needs to communicate to you (or you and your DH) herself and not through others.
ETA: is my tagging not working? Grr... Try again: @shakeweights
Sorry you have to deal with her drama. I think I would be drawing hard lines and cutting ties too.
*GIF failed