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Dear god my mil ticks me off sometimes
She sent me a big long text last night that started off with this 'thank god theres email because no one ever answers my calls' crap.she has not called in weeks and I always pick up when she calls. Whatever. I answers it right off; dh and I were out having ice cream so we composed our reply and sent it, to her, me, dh, and both ds's since some of her questions concerned them.
I also sent her a forward regarding graduation dates and times, from school.
So today I get another email from her with a single line; did you get this?? In all caps. Hell yes I got it and I answered. So I forwarded my response from last night with a polite YES I did, here it is.
The. To be pissy I re-sent her the graduation email and asked her if she had gotten it since I had not gotten a reply.
Re: Dear god my mil ticks me off sometimes
Drives me nuts some days.
If you hadn't deprived her of her pretty princess day part deux she would not dislike you so much. You have only yourself to blame.
And she's a mean meany. And you aren't afraid of her. How dare you not be afraid of her. She has waited her whole life to be the evil MIL and you are destroying her fun. ****shakes her fist and storms off*****
let's just say i'm with you right now.
if my ILs, all of them, could stop making it quite so obvious that talking to me and my husband is secondary to the primary visit purpose of monopolizing every waking moment of my kid's time in a way that i hope to god pisses L off as much as it pisses me off one day so that she will act out the aggressive feelings i have to suppress, i'd appreciate it.
the ILs are coming this week. they were JUST HERE. they come every 8-10 weeks and stay 4 days every time. i'm over it. and then in four more weeks my SIL is coming. i've already received three emails and a two text messages with "questions" about "L's schedule" or "reminders" about how they're "happy to babysit." yes, i get that this is a diamond shoes are too tight issues, but HOLY FVVCK LEAVE ME ALONE. text and email your freaking blood relative (aka my husband) about this. i'm not in charge just because i happen to have two X chromosomes. and these "helpful" reminders and questions are really just veiled "get out of your own house and leave us alone with your kid so we can undermine your authority and talk to her in a weirdo sing song voice and put our shoes on your couch which we should realize makes you postal." i work a shiitton. i'm tired. can't you just play in another room while i lay on my couch and listen to my own television at a reasonable volume?
oh, and also, "wouldn't it be fun to get pedis/a massage/a facial?" sure it would. because i always pay.
i don't say this to them. because i know it's coming from a good place and the more people who love my kid the better. and hello, the gift horse of free babysitting. but OH.MY.GOODNESS. i just need a break from these people. all people. i haven't had work-free weekend in months except last weekend, when i was drugged with 4 gaping holes in my mouth.
i made this about me. but i needed it.
sorry.
Lol it's true
Lol it's true
brutal.
i'm right there with you. because he's a stupid dramawhore, my dh mentioned to her that we want to move out of TN. she LAUNCHED into a crazed tirade about the "type" of people who would leave their families....which is exactly what i did for her son.
also, she can't believe we would do this to her.
My FIL tells people that I lied to him about moving back my H's hometown after we got married. I "promised" we would move there eventually according to him. UMMM no thank you!! There is a reason why your son is perfectly content 8 hours away!
maybe we can work a strangers on a train type deal?
ha. i know i have it pretty good. i really do (in part because if there was an issue, and i needed something done, my husband would be all over it like white on rice). but i'm just at my wit's end with pleasing other people. especially them. because they've made me their pointperson for all things annoying.
i hope my sil has a kid soon, to take the heat off of L a bit. i worry about all this focused attention on her (mine included). and i know a lot of it is just plain old annoyance on my part with A) sharing my space (i'm not good with that) and
sharing my kid (because i feel that my time is limited). mother theresa stopping by for a cup of tea would piss me off in certain of my moods.
Great. So I send her the email she says she didn't get, with the date/time and her email address on it and ask did you get this? And all I get back is 'Nope...'
Godi am going to kill her
Great. So I send her the email she says she didn't get, with the date/time and her email address on it and ask did you get this? And all I get back is 'Nope...'
Godi am going to kill her
Dot dot dot
She must live in the same time warp that my MIL does. She never gets her email. If she does get it there's usually a problem and she "can't open it". And if you call and she doesn't answer it's because her phone never rang.
But she sure as shiit gets the ridiculous "forward this to the first 900 people you know and you will get a million dollars but if you don't you'll die by rabid squirrels" emails that she likes to forward.