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Breathe in/ breathe out
DH and I are going to an Oktoberfest on Sunday. As such, I'm taking Monday off as the holiday (DH is off already). My plan was to still send DS to daycare and we'd have the day to veg, perhaps recover, and just deal w/ some other stuff around the house.
We obviously crossed wires somewhere along the way.
He just tells me that his parents are supposed to come up Monday afternoon to see DS. As they don't get to see him a ton (even though they did see him yesterday), I know it's important to DH.
BUT - it's just not what I mentally had planned for on my day off. His parents coming over is always a cluster. They always show up late, then they want to do lunch - even though its WAY past our lunch time. And then they spend most of their visit eating and watching TV and not really spending it w/ DS.
DH is like "well, I like your plan for Monday too". Well, dude, maybe if you had bothered to LISTEN to me when I told you my plan for Monday, you could have talked to me about it in more detail before calling your parents.
Seriously- this almost makes me want to come to work instead.
~Benjamin Franklin
DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10
Re: Breathe in/ breathe out
That is probably what I would end up doing, ha!
If it's too late to change your requested day off at work and/or you don't feel like going into work when you wanted a day to unwind, why not just go out by yourself for a little when your IL's are over?
Take yourself out to lunch or for a pedicure...tell DH since he didn't listen & you had planned on having a nice day together - just the two of you, that he can stay home and entertain your IL's why you're out. Before/after their visit, maybe the two of you can resume to the "actual plan".
Oh man I hate communication fails like that!
Have a liquid lunch on Monday?
Currently Reading: Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
~Benjamin Franklin
DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10
Won't say that I won't have a beer in hand, though!
~Benjamin Franklin
DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10
Well, knowing that they are always late, can you plan around that? How far away is daycare?
Why not send DS to daycare, "veg" or do what you need around the house for 1/2 of the day, and when the ILS arrive (which you know will not be early!), tell them that you will go pick up DS while they have their lunch.
If he is napping at daycare, let him stay until naptime (or pick him up before naptime is scheduled). And YOU pick up DS, so your H can hang with his parents.
If you find yourself feeling agitated, put on your gym clothes and go for a walk for 20-30 minutes.