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mini MIL vent
I just don't get her! Evie is the only kid in the family. Everyone else is 20+. But she schedules Christmas 'dinner' at 2:30, right around Evie's nap time. We brought it up to her and she knows it is Evies nap time but doesn't care.
Um excuse me. I have had a sick kid for 2 months. We are going to her doctor to look at her ears again (have had this ear infection since Halloween). Yes in general she is a happy girl. But christmas morning we do our own family thing. I cannot guarantee what time she will nap, or if she will do an early and late nap. She has been pissed off lately because of her ears. Has not been sleeping well. Just what we need for christmas is to have a tired cranky sick baby at a house she is rarely at with people she sees sometimes.
So we decided, we will go on her schedule. If we make it by dessert we make it by dessert and will have a backup meal ready at home.
Just pisses me off to purpously schedule it near her nap time so that we get there as they are serving food so we can't exchange gifts or such and hang out since usually peple are out the door after food. Thanks. I guess scheduling to your ownly grand daughters schedule is just out of the question.
DH and I would so rather just do our own thing at our house for Christmas. Still hoping for a freak snowstorm to snow everyone in.
I know the right thing to do is to go there early and have her nap. But I know her, she will not nap with people around. So we will end up with an overtired sick kid. No fun for anyone.
Re: mini MIL vent
It would be so nice if in a perfect world everything went by our own kid's schedules but they don't. I think you do what you have to do and it sounds like you guys have a plan to maximize Evie's sleep as well as still try to see everyone.
I would probably just do what you're planning on doing and go late.
I'm pretty sure me and mom always set a time that's around our niece and nephews nap schedule for the holidays but I've honestly never thought about it. It's just the time that works best for everyone and worst case scenario we just all deal with crankpot kids
We all help out with the kids so it is what it is, I guess.
It is possible. And I don't really know everyone elses schedule. Most of them I know go visit other family early then come over there then go home. So dunno. They are creatures of habbit so i knowsince they have always done it at this time, they will. And I am making a mountain out of a molehill. And we have plans to get there when we get there and trying not to make a big deal out of it.
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I hear ya! We weren't going to go up to ILs house Christmas day because DH has to work early Monday and it's a 2 hour drive one way. We wanted to spend Christmas at home and start a tradition for our kids to be at home Christmas day. Well DH got guilted into going up there since his brother works weekends and its the only day everyone can be there together. So we are driving 4 hours Christmas day to spend 2 with his family. I'm sure that will be a blast with a 1 year old!
I think your plan is a good one. If you make it at 230 great, if not oh well!