Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Le sigh
DH leaves tonight for work travel. Five hours later my mother's flight lands.
I love my mother but am "hopefully optimistic" the visit goes well. When she came to visit in Italy after BabyD was born, she was there for five weeks and was not helpful. Definitely a guest that required being taken care of. The visit was so rough that after she left I called home to let my dad know to never send her to me for that long again without my permission, and then I didn't call home for over a month. When she came to Bahrain a year ago the demonstrations started, I was working, and she was stuck in the house almost the entire time. When I flew back home, six months pregnant, for my brother's wedding, the second thing she said to me was to gleefully announce that I looked fat. She has a broken wrist that is healing slowly and still requires prescription pain management.
But.... She apparently wants to cook for me this time. Just can't lift anything of much weight or open cans so I'll have to help. She has some work training coursework she is bringing so there's some built in down time. She's been here before so it's not a complete shock. I'm not going back to work until after she leaves so we can actually do things. I have a list of things for us to do even if we accomplish only one thing a day. And I am now stocked up on alchohol for me and have a supply of milk in the freezer for DD.
Re: Le sigh
Good luck... gotta love the people who insist on "helping" you when it could be easier to do it yourself... Not like you can just play with the kids while she cooks dinner...
Hope you get through your list!
Sunday night and then goes to work the next day.
What's funny is that my mom's trip was planned before his work trip. He comes home one day with "I'm sorry" written all over his face. I give him the one eyebrow up look and he tells me about this trip. He knew that even though it wasn't his fault he was in trouble.
My food blog
What I'm looking forward to in 2012:
Eating our way through (northern) Italy on vacation
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DIt's great you're prepared with alcohol and frozen milk!
Good luck!
I know it's not funny and that you are frustrated, but I am laughing so hard at this. My mother was here for the birth of the twins that she didn't want to miss - and during my scheduled c-section she was on a Thames river cruise. They spent more time touring London than seeing us and the twins. And for them to make a meal? God no.
MIL has come a few times - the most recent to specifically help out while I was in the hospital. Poor DH nearly sent her back on a plane after day 2. For the month that she was here she was helpful while I was away and for about 2 or 3 days after I got back... and then she phoned it in and we had to clean up after her more than the kids!
I would let her make dinners, but keep frozen pizzas as back ups. Greatly lower your expectations, etc. and just enjoy the visit with the woman that revels in your supposed fat-ness. (my mother told me last night that my house was "un-livable". After I took great offence she "kindly" explained that it was because the carpets are horrilbe, there is mould, the kitchen is horrendous and the bathroom is horrible - she would NEVER have rented that place. And then she went on about how I'm "too sensitive".)
Enjoy helping your mother make you dinner!
Chronically hilarious - you'll split your stitches!
I wrote a book! Bucket list CHECK!
http://notesfortheirtherapist.blogspot.co.uk
I hear ya! When we went to the US for Christmas we stayed at my Mom's house (I thought it would be more relaxing for me as she would help look after DS)- she spent the whole time 'getting ready for Christmas' even though we were the only guests for Christmas?!
Look forward to hearing how it goes and any tips for the rest of us! Good luck.
If it makes you feel any better, there's a sh!tty strike in Naples... so if you guys were still here you'd be completely shut in with her!
Anyway, good luck-- here's hoping for no major stressors!