what did the inlaws do at christmas?
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thought id start a thread on ranting lol!
mine on xmas day told us all how p1ssed off she was that she didnt receive a xmas card, as her friends were phoning her and saying how nice they were, yet she didnt get one. shes also been telling other people how p1ssed she is about it. she was angry with me. my husband wasnt even in the room when she was expressing this. anyway, in mid november i wrote the xmas cards (with los picture on the front) and told hubby to put a personal message on the one to his mum and dad. he said "right." i posted the pile of cards on the 3th of nov. hubby hadnt written his parents cards. two weeks ago he got round to it and posted them. they ahve not received them. i wasnt aware that he hadnt done it when i asked him (and i asked him a fair few times!). yet i was the one who faced the wrath.
so, what did yours do?!
mine on xmas day told us all how p1ssed off she was that she didnt receive a xmas card, as her friends were phoning her and saying how nice they were, yet she didnt get one. shes also been telling other people how p1ssed she is about it. she was angry with me. my husband wasnt even in the room when she was expressing this. anyway, in mid november i wrote the xmas cards (with los picture on the front) and told hubby to put a personal message on the one to his mum and dad. he said "right." i posted the pile of cards on the 3th of nov. hubby hadnt written his parents cards. two weeks ago he got round to it and posted them. they ahve not received them. i wasnt aware that he hadnt done it when i asked him (and i asked him a fair few times!). yet i was the one who faced the wrath.
so, what did yours do?!
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My hubby is just the same. I remember one year I bought HIS sister a birthday card (because he would never have remembered) but I didn't know I was supposed to buy one with the word "sister" on the front. Anyhoo she went into a massive strop and I got it in the neck from hubby cos he had been given a row by his mum. Oh, and can I point out that his sister was in her 20's when this happened.
My outlaws were ok this Chrimbo, mainly cos I didn't see them. But believe me, Christmas is traditionally a time of enormous rows with the old outlaws, so I earned some peace this year!
I might come back in a while with some rants, at the moment I am feeling quite contented but I do like a good old rant!
*Using the word dick to refer to birds when talking to LO, when I have specifically asked her not to!
* Going on and on and on and on about how LO should be on full solids now and only one bottle at night - she's 19 weeks!
* I caught her trying to feed LO chocolate! I went mental and she told me that I was depriving my child of a good Xmas! Aaaaarrrrggghhhhhh!
* Shes told EVERYONE we came into contact with that I've tried to drown my LO, how bad does that sound? I had to put everyone straight and explain that I take LO to waterbabies which helps her become confident in the water and that she is taught by qualified professionals!
* She threw a hissy fit because I insisted that the dog be locked in the kitchen whilst we ate as LO was asleep on her rocker and if the dog went for her I wasn't close enough to stop it, granted it's never gone or anyone yet but I wouldn't leave LO alone with ANY dog!
* Oh and just to top it all off, she told me at the dinner table that she didn't think me and OH would last and end up divorced! Even OH was shocked at this revelation!
Aaaaaarrrrrrgggggghhhhhh!
I refused to go up today, no doubt she'll be telling everyone that I'm stopping her seeing LO!
Xxx
I must be lucky, my mother-in-law is really nice and very good to us.
other than that, she was quite well behaved!!!!
When we got home we had a voicemail message from SIL saying how we ought to go visit on Xmas day because MIL has been complaining that she never gets to see her Grandson.
FIL was brill, as per usual, but insisted on passing out sweets without asking me if it was okay for them to have any first - its pretty much the only thing he does that bothers me, compared to his wife, he's an angel.
*aunty 1: stop calling my child by the name of a ITNG character, you have been told repeatedly that daddy does not approve of it and it is banned in our house...it is completely disrespectful of us as parents to keep calling her this and to keep buying INTG toys when you have been told! :x
also, do not tell my 11 month old not to 'whinge' when she is getting ratty because you and your sister would not leave her alone to go to sleep because 'she has to open her present off me'. you are in your 50s, grow the F up! this also goes for you aunty 2!
*aunty 2: do not tell me repeatedly that i have to get my baby christened because you have bought an expensive christening present...you were told before she was born, and since! that she was not being christened so it's your own stupid fault if you've wasted your money!
*aunty 1 and nana: she is not called emma or emily, she is called emmy-lee, she is almost one, learn her bloody name! (nana i don't mind so much that you get it wrong coz you get everyboddys names wrong and often call your own kids the pets' names lol)
*cousin: sweetie, she wont smile at you because she thinks you're going to eat her, don't bare your teeth at an 11 month old when you want cuddles it doesn't help lol
*father: you are a **** of royal proportions! no matter what i think about you it is not acceptable to not even get your only grandchild a christmas card. **** :x :x :x
*cousins & partners: you all earn more than i do yet between 4! of you you can only manage to buy a ??5 tin of biscuits for people who have spent hundreds on you over the years...yet you can spend 50/100 on your brother/sisters gf/bf...get your priorities sorted, you're not kids any more!
step daddy: i love you, that is all xxx
for example my mums godson is a domestic violence child so is not allowed any form of 'violent' toys. i've bought water pistols for my step bros party bags for DDs party but i've made sure to buy him something else as i would never knowingly give him something his mum doesn't want iykwim?
unfortunately they're all the idiots on my side of the family!
my inlaws are awesome and i love them to bits! lol
My own mother has never seen Sophie who is now 21 weeks old and my Dad has only seen her about 5 times.
They live 81 steps away from our house - just round the corner on the same road!!
My mil finally made the 20 min car drive from her house yest to give my kids xmas prezzies.
She got Ben a couple of toys and gave him ??20.
She got Sophie fuck all and gave her ??20!
Why on earth would you give both kids the same amount of money but buy 1 toys and not the other??
My parents bought couple of toys each for the kids and some clothes that do not fit and in Ben's case is not his style at all - something they would know if they took any interest in their grandchildren!!
Parents?? - who'd have em??
lol
This year, OH and I sent Christmas together for the first time as we now have our little baby. We stayed at MIL and FIL until 2pm, before driving the 40 mins to my Dads house. There were Sooooooo many digs about OH not being there both on the day, and then all over the festive period. They were obviously looking for a reaction but I said nothing.
SIL was very poorly on Xmas day, so stayed away from the baby. Still Poorly on the 31st and went to the Docs- doc said she was getting over swine flu. I always spend new years day with OH family but this year was very wary. She had been googling and told me that she was not contagious anymore, saying this between sneezes and coughs! I said I was just being wary. She said she understood, but still proceeded to touch the babies toys, and her hand - my little girl is putting everything in her mouth at the moment. Grrrrrrrrr. She lives abroad, and is only here for a few more days, but I'm still wary about her being close to my LO.
LO is a bit of a mummies girl at the moment. She takes a while to settle anywhere new, and once I get her settled, I tend to lie her on the carpet, and take her tights off - she loves to kick her legs about. FIL always sticks his face in hers, and she goes nuts. Then he picks her up, and she screams! I go to take her, and he turns he away from me! EXCUSE ME! SHE IS MY CHILD! God, I get so mad! MIL wanted to carry her round the room, whilst she was sitting with me quite happy playing with her book, and she screamed. WHEN I SAY SHE IS FINE! PLEASE JUST LEAVE HER IN PEACE!
Ahhhhh, that felt good!
We had a better time without them!