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Re: Finally Friday
Normally annoying? Why, yes, she is. lol!
She is really funny about food. It is how she takes care of her family and she loves to get praise for her cooking. She'll ask everybody repeatedly through meals how we like it. She brags about how many of her recipes made it into the church cookbook. And she points out when other people's dishes aren't as well received.
Mike's Dad has helped us out a lot on our house and whenever he is up here I make him a meal. I guess he tells her about what I make and how much he likes it. One time when we were all together she said to me, "I know you are a good cook." And FIL said, "An excellent cook." Gulp. Hahaha.
Other times, Mike's Niece and Nephew have requested specific things I make for their birthday dinners. And all they asked that MIL bring is fruit.
It hurt her feelings that they didn't make a special request of her.
She wants to be top cook in the kitchen. It is just a bummer when it keeps good food from holiday parties!
Uh, sorry that was long! I clearly have MIL issues.
Ha...in a way my MIL is like this, but she isn't a that good of a cook.
I think her issue is being needed. If we have them over, I have to make sure I ask her to bring something or I think she gets offended. After we had kids, we started asking them over to our house more because it was easier that way. This way we could run upstairs put the kids to bed and still talk. Whenever we would ask them to come over, her response was always "well you know you can come over here too." I polietly told her that yes we know that since we would always go over there, and continute to still go there. However if they would like our visits to last longer that 6:30 pm or would like for us to play a card game with us than they need to come over our house.
One time MIL said that she wanted to watch the girls to play in the sandbox, so I invited them over and she said you know you can come over here and I told her that well since she wanted to watch the kids play in the sandbox, they would need to come to our place, We couldn't pack up the sandbox in our car and bring it to them.
So I'm annoyed at my MIL right now about my FIL. He has Parkinson and for the last five years they have seen his PCP for it, not a specialist. Their PCP FINALLY referrred him to a specialist and MIL was all worried because the neighbor's husband saw a specialist and the medicines he took made him fall down. (what???)
So the specialist refers him to PT which should have happened five years ago once he started on his meds and had gained mobility again. Well, MIL decides that as long as the weather is nice and FIL is outside puttering around he doesn't need PT. But they aren't going to go if the roads are bad. So basically she is going to put off making a appt until she can use the excuse that the roads are too bad.
Enable much????? And this is why her 43 year old child still lives at home.
That seems really late. Was it an emergency? Is she at HF?
Good luck to your mom! And thinking of you as you wait for news.
I don't know where she is. St. John's is where we've gone in the past. It was an emergency. I guess it's outpatient, and she'll be going out tomorrow, as planned. Christmas is still on for Sunday. Crazy.
gvsu - How frustrating about your MIL. I feel really bad that the treatment your FIL needs is being pushed off because of her.
GRsp - Oh my. I hope your mom makes a quick recovery.
Oh, no! I hope everything went well. Is it the same retina that detached previously, or the other eye?
My mom went through this just a few days before Thanksgiving last year. The holidays are crummy timing to have sore eyeballs and blurry vision!
I hope your mom heals quickly.
Glad to hear that things went well. Enjoy your family celebration tomorrow.