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FFF
Because I have a feeling it is gonna be one of those days...
Re: FFF
I will start. I have never participated in FFF but I am super annoyed today!
My MIL is CRAZY! Like seriously crazy. Like people wonder how my husband is a functional adult in a healthy marriage. She has never really had a stable job but spends money like crazy. Anyways, she inherited like 200k from her mom and basically she was supposed to buy a house and get herself settled so she would be ok in the future. She has decided to move from Indiana out here and bought a short sale in White Settlement and totally got hosed, really didn't get a good deal at all....and will have a ton of work to do to maintain this house!
We found out on Friday that she is flying out for a few days to sign her closing and that she had only put down a small amount because she has spent the rest of this money on plastic surgery (she wants to meet a rich man here), an expensive dog, new Lexus and a bunch of other s--t she doesn't need! So now I am stuck with her visiting while my husband is working insane hours (training with a new job) and I don't think I can be nice!
The flammable part is that last night on the phone I told her that we were really busy while she was in town and that we were trick or treating with friends and that I wouldn't feel comfortable asking them if I could bring another guest to dinner....I feel like a total b but I can't deal with her. Last time she was here, she was talking on the phone to a friend and I overheard her make a snotty comment about my parenting!
We got a card/letter from DH's grandmother yesterday. It was a congrats on the new house and baby on the way. So my first thought is, oh that's nice of her to send a card. Then I was reading the letter in which she first says that "I wish you were having a girl, for your mom Josh (dh), I know she always enjoyed buying things for Jenna (dh's only female cousin on that side)." So this pisses me off, who says that?! If you feel like that tell your daughter, not your grandson and his wife! So since I am already pissed off the other stupid things in the letter make me more annoyed that she even bothered to sent a card, "I really like his name it goes well with the last name", (thanks but we wouldn't change it even if you didn't like it) followed then by an update of everyone else in on his mom's side of the family and ending with "Well we all knew Judy (DH's aunt) would raise a great child."
I don't know the whole thing was a little weird and awkward sounding, but I guess that is where MIL gets her awkwardness from!
Well, I don't have any flames but after those posts I am annoyed for both of you. Your MIL sounds like a real whack job and your DH's grandmother sounds like a real piece of work. Who tells people I wish you were having a girl?!? In my mind I'd be thinking, yeah and I wish you were a billionaire and gave us millions of dollars but that isn't happening either. Sorry you ladies are having to deal with their issues.
Thankfully his grandma lives in WA, so odds are she won't see Jake for a long time, and we generally don't have to deal with her!
blech - they both sound like just a barrel full of fun to be around!
my mom has never understood when to hold her tongue - she wants us to move out to Powderly (which it is possible that we may do so) so she can keep the baby because all of the good, well adjusted people she knows in life always say that they were 'raised by their grandparents'
huh? wth does that mean? please woman - you had your chance to raise your children and mess them up, now it is my turn.