My BF is that if you go out in a group to eat, your kids should sit in between you and your husband. Your kids shouldn't sit across the table from you so that other people are forced to help them eat and behave. DH's brother and sister in law do this everytime we go out to eat. They sit next to each other and let their brat children sit wherever they want. They typically end up between me and their grandparents and I can't freaking stand it. Their grandparents have to let their food get cold so they can monitor the kids, and feed them. Halfway through, the kids start getting up and running around the restaurant and their parents just sit there. The grandparents have to get up and chase them around. Take responsibility for your children and don't pawn them off on others to take care of everytime we go out to eat.
@heatherlynn321 Is it possible that the grandparents have asked to do this? My MIL insists on DH and I "taking a break" when we go out to eat with her. She wants to sit next to DS and let me and DH sit next to each other across the table. I used to feel guilty about the fact that she never got to enjoy her meal, but the fact that she keeps insisting on it makes me think that actually she really does enjoy it an doesn't mind her food going cold.
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Me & DH: 32 Married 2013 Kiddo #1: Sept 2015 BFP: 1/19, EDD: 9/30
"I'm having fruit salad for dinner. Well, it's mostly just grapes, actually. Ok all grapes. Fermented grapes. Fine, I'm having wine for dinner."
@ColoradoHiker You should see my face the whole time. I make no effort to disguise what I'm thinking. DH's parents can't stand that they always do it, but they're too nice to want to say anything. The little girl sneezed all over my food one time, and then laughed. I was so livid. It's to the point where if I know we're going out as a whole family I just don't go. I can't stand eating with them, but since yesterday was Father's Day, I went anyways.
@Lizlann The grandparents don't like it, they're just too nice to say anything, we've discussed it before. Also, they babysit the kids 4 days each week while their parents are at work, so it's not like they don't get to see them.
@heatherlynn321 Well then I would side eye them too. After the sneezing I probably would have picked her up, placed her in one of their laps, and said "if you want to sneeze on someone's food, there's mommy's/daddy's plate right there." But I have no filter and most people think I'm a b.
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Me & DH: 32 Married 2013 Kiddo #1: Sept 2015 BFP: 1/19, EDD: 9/30
"I'm having fruit salad for dinner. Well, it's mostly just grapes, actually. Ok all grapes. Fermented grapes. Fine, I'm having wine for dinner."
@Lizlann I wish I was bolder, for now I just avoid eating with them. I thought of doing something like that, but it was like 5 hours after we had left, I think I was just so taken aback that she did it in the first place I didn't know what to do. If I ever get up the courage to tell them off, I have a laundry list of things to tell them in my head.
The thing is that they're going to Disney World this year with just them and the kids, and I'm kind of concerned they're going to lose one of their kids because they're not used to watching them or being responsible for them.
Ugh, I don't know if it's the pregnancy hormones or what. But I cannot deal with our summer interns at the office at the moment. Neither of them seem capable of figuring anything out for themselves and instead ask me 19373781 questions about everything. Sigh.
Ugh, I don't know if it's the pregnancy hormones or what. But I cannot deal with our summer interns at the office at the moment. Neither of them seem capable of figuring anything out for themselves and instead ask me 19373781 questions about everything. Sigh.
@heatherlynn321 I would be "assigning" seats if we went out to dinner with them again and say and "sally and john can sit here between you two since we have our hands full too" We always sit with our child between us. That's so rude of them.
@jessieR358 I used to do this when I was a teenager at Christmas and Thanksgiving. My aunt and uncle used to do the same thing with their bratty son who was significantly younger than me and my siblings. I used to print out name cards/place settings under the guise of being fancy, and I always placed their son in between them.
My bf is this heat wave. 104-110 degree weather for two weeks is ridiculous and the nights have been hot, too. It's too early for this crap. I'm dreading the rest of summer.
Re: Bitchfest Monday 6/19/17
DS2: EDD- 09.08.17
Married 2013
Kiddo #1: Sept 2015
BFP: 1/19, EDD: 9/30
"I'm having fruit salad for dinner. Well, it's mostly just grapes, actually. Ok all grapes. Fermented grapes. Fine, I'm having wine for dinner."
Married 2013
Kiddo #1: Sept 2015
BFP: 1/19, EDD: 9/30
"I'm having fruit salad for dinner. Well, it's mostly just grapes, actually. Ok all grapes. Fermented grapes. Fine, I'm having wine for dinner."
The thing is that they're going to Disney World this year with just them and the kids, and I'm kind of concerned they're going to lose one of their kids because they're not used to watching them or being responsible for them.