@aevan011 Ugh I know! And I mentioned that FI and I were still trying to agree on a name and he said, " Well he's not having the baby so he doesn't get a say." Just a bit of background info, he named all 4 of us kids, according to my mom. She ultimately liked the names he picked, but he picked them nonetheless. So I came back with, "I don't know, why did you insist on naming us?" lol he didn't really know what to say to that.
@dmontgo - wow! You are just getting awkward WTF moments from both sides!
Also, the fair skin thing totally varies. I'm half Mexican, medium light skin but tan like crazy. My man is full Mexican and doesn't look one bit like it, he has fair skin and burns like crazy in the sun. Our first daughter got my darker/tan easy skin and darker hair and eyes. Our second daughter looks just like her dad- fair skin, burns easy, light hair, but her eyes were blue until she was 2 and now they are green. It's all a coin toss of the gene pool! I love it each child is like a surprise when they are born, ours looked soooo different at birth that I was kinda shocked everytime I looked at my 2nd (also polar opposites in personality) I'm so excited to see what our 3rd and last baby is like, personality and what genes they got! I'm a total science nerd though, that could be part of it. Lets just hope we can raise our kids to not give their family WTF moments like the ones on here!
MIL has said she wants to buy us a crib as thats tradition in her family. I was skeptical (because of other *gift* issues in the past) but said we would send her the link once we picked one, reminding her we're house hunting right now and we probably won't be ready for one until October-ish.
Today she sends a tracking email to a "crib" she bought. Yeah. It's a $30 pack n play. Very bare minimum. Not something we would use.
So DH gets to decide if he wants to just shove it in the closet and not use it, donate it, or start a fight once he tells her we'd like to return it. Fight because we're "too good for them, don't appreciate their efforts, blah, blah, etc. blah.". My vote is to just donate it.
@cgss11 That is not cool. I would think about if you will go visiting anywhere for several days before I donated it. We have one and it's really nice and easy to pack up and take if we go somewhere for a couple days. Plus, if you put a blanket over the top they are as mosquito proof outdoor play pen.
Formerly known as Kate08young August '18 Siggy April Showers:
Me: 28 H: 24 Married: 7/22/14 Baby L: 8/4/2015 August 2015 Moms Baby E: 11/18/2016 December 2016 Moms TTC #3 08/2017 BFP 11/27/2017. Twin B lost 11/22/2017, Twin A doing well.
Ugh. I was predicting my family drama would blow up sometime over the holidays. Nope... my parents chose now to implode our relationship with. All because we don't want to be at their house with my violent drug addict brother for father's day. We set appropriate boundaries. They can't handle them. They act like the immature assholes that they have been to me my entire life.
This is so sad. My husband it visiting his dad who just found out he has pancreatic cancer and has 3-6 months to live... Maybe even less (potentially, slim chance more). He went with his dad and mom to the oncologist today and then went home to tell his sister and husband who live with my ILs what the dr said. Basically the whole time he was trying to tell them his sister kept derailing the whole thing and making it about her, how she doesn't need to know what the dr said because she's read webmd and knows he's going to die in a few months... Even the dr said she can't verify its cancer with out a biopsy and that time will tell. It could be two things one he might live up to a year, but it's a slim chance. Everyone (even her husband) kept saying "just listen" but she was being totally irrational and then started verbally attacking my husband saying we have no idea what their life is like and we don't care about her and all this personal crap! She did this at our wedding too... Almost ruined the whole thing because we weren't doing what she wanted. After she left her husband told mine, "this is sad to say, but I'm glad I saw that because I thought she only did that with me..." Now she won't talk to anyone. It's so sad. Everyone should be caring about my FIL, but she's making his death about HER... How sick is that?
@maamawaabangi ; that sucks. i'm sorry your SIL is being a douche. it sounds like she is not coping at all and is trying to deal the only way she knows how, by turning it all around to her. it's immature and sad, but unfortunately a lot of people behave this way. I lost (step)FIL to metastatic lung cancer a couple years ago, he managed about 1 year from diagnosis to death, MIL was diagnosed with breast cancer at the same time, and now my mom was just literally diagnosed with colon cancer a couple days ago. my point, if you need to talk to a non-judgy internet stranger, i'm here.
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Also, the fair skin thing totally varies. I'm half Mexican, medium light skin but tan like crazy. My man is full Mexican and doesn't look one bit like it, he has fair skin and burns like crazy in the sun.
Our first daughter got my darker/tan easy skin and darker hair and eyes. Our second daughter looks just like her dad- fair skin, burns easy, light hair, but her eyes were blue until she was 2 and now they are green. It's all a coin toss of the gene pool! I love it
I'm so excited to see what our 3rd and last baby is like, personality and what genes they got! I'm a total science nerd though, that could be part of it.
Lets just hope we can raise our kids to not give their family WTF moments like the ones on here!
Today she sends a tracking email to a "crib" she bought. Yeah. It's a $30 pack n play. Very bare minimum. Not something we would use.
So DH gets to decide if he wants to just shove it in the closet and not use it, donate it, or start a fight once he tells her we'd like to return it. Fight because we're "too good for them, don't appreciate their efforts, blah, blah, etc. blah.". My vote is to just donate it.
Formerly known as Kate08young
August '18 Siggy April Showers:
Married: 7/22/14
Baby L: 8/4/2015 August 2015 Moms
Baby E: 11/18/2016 December 2016 Moms
TTC #3 08/2017 BFP 11/27/2017.
Twin B lost 11/22/2017, Twin A doing well.
Everyone (even her husband) kept saying "just listen" but she was being totally irrational and then started verbally attacking my husband saying we have no idea what their life is like and we don't care about her and all this personal crap! She did this at our wedding too... Almost ruined the whole thing because we weren't doing what she wanted.
After she left her husband told mine, "this is sad to say, but I'm glad I saw that because I thought she only did that with me..."
Now she won't talk to anyone. It's so sad. Everyone should be caring about my FIL, but she's making his death about HER... How sick is that?
Due December 27th with baby #7
I lost (step)FIL to metastatic lung cancer a couple years ago, he managed about 1 year from diagnosis to death, MIL was diagnosed with breast cancer at the same time, and now my mom was just literally diagnosed with colon cancer a couple days ago. my point, if you need to talk to a non-judgy internet stranger, i'm here.
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