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Re: Let's fight
similarly, i....don't want your kid opening my shower presents. #selfishbitch
I'll hold your jersey for you Marie so it doesn't get ripped. Because I'm on team Marie in this one.
H, is that you?
My friend will go as far to hate on people who use pictures on their kids as their profile. But she readily admits to having a lot of kid hate.
I'm pretty sure "Masshole" is a point of state pride.
Tell copzson he needs to head south of the Mason Dixon. Or even just to Kentucky.
People judge you here if you are male and don't hold open doors. Jackson even does it and says, "LADIES FIRST!!!!" LOL. He won't even go down the steps ahead of me at home. LADIES FIRST!!!!
I have nothing to fight about, but I do have a complaint. Yesterday I took both kids to Jackson's well visit, where he got 4 shots. I'm still not over how awful it was and how bitter I am that MH SAID HE'D BE HOME SO I WOULDN'T HAVE TO TAKE SCARLETT BUT THEN HE CALLED AND SAID HE FORGOT ABOUT A MEETING. So all of us went. All of screamed. For a long time. In a tiny exam room.
The rage... oh the rage.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home Dthis is something that i'm surprisingly an ass about. i don't care a whit if you bring your kids to a baby shower, but DO NOT let your preshus get all up in the guest of honor's presence and presents. I will make it known that it's not cool. first time one of those kids gets all up in your present opening while you are trying to thank the giver and give details to the record keeper for thank you notes, you can flick 'em in the ear with my permission.
THIS pissed me off as a SAHM. I HATED taking them for shots, it physically made me ill...but hey, I was home and he wasn't soooo
I confess, this used to annoy me for the same reasons it annoys you but it doesn't anymore. I know you can't really call kids a hobby/interest/whatever, but that's how I liken those usernames - I have an interest in sports so sometimes I will use sports-related usernames. Those parents (hopefully) like their kids so they will use that for that username in the same way, I guess.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DToday, I hate kids.
{Disclaimer: I love my own, but even they are on my last damn nerve after yesterday}
Anyway, the presents reminds me...at every birthday party we have gone to recently, where the kids open the gifts, all the damn kids just crowd around the birthday girl/boy and act like hooligans. I thought MH was going to have an aneurysm over it at the last one. Of course, Jackson doesn't do that, b/c we are the best parents ever (ha!). But why do people let their kids do that? It's so f*cking rude. Tell them to go sit down and stay there. Jesus. It's not hard. Plus we are talking about 5-6 YOs here. Not 18m olds.
I think there should be a couple airport security lines devoted to the "I've flown before and I know what to do" people, and lines for the ignorant. Because I am sofuckingsick of being stuck behind the mouth breathers who can't read a sign and who apparently lose all sense of reason, rationality, and common sense.
If you don't know if you can wear your glasses through security, I don't want you in my line. Get out of my way.
I think this is okay since you said they are calling your mom and asking if its okay (so not just assuming and showing up with the kid.) they may expect your mom to say yes, but least they are essentially asking.
This isn't really a picking-a-fight thing but its a confession. No one in H's family sent me so much as a card for my bday (H got a card from my grandparents, aunt, parents, brothers, nieces, nephew, and I think my mom sent him one from her dogs) but no one in his family wished me happy bday on facebook, sent me a card, nothing. His mom sent me an email late that night saying happy birthday. I'm slightly bitter about this even two months later and I've never brought it up to H, but I should because it is clouding my feelings my about whether I want his family here for the birth or when I want them here etc. It's so petty and I need to get over it but damn it bugs me. And it hurts too.
The thing that pisses me off is that he doesn't get why it's so awful b/c he rarely goes to well visits. He has a few times when it's worked or whatever, but not with the frequency I have gone, obviously. And that's fine, it's why I SAH and is a choice we've made. But I just wish he would understand how GD awful it is, especially when I have to take both of them with me.
I was almost in tears when I called to give him the recap and he acted like it was no big deal. RAGE.
See, I do care if you bring them in the first place. Especially younger ones. Even really well behaved toddlers might not understand that presents aren't for them. A parent who is responsibly keeping them away from the loot may inadvertently induce some kind of fit or tantrum, which is totally normal for the age, right? Just another reason why its an inappropriate setting.
Also my mom is now stuck deciding how child-friendly she needs to make the space.
AND, again, selfishly, I watch my friends juggle their children at every single other social gathering we have. The you-hold-the-baby-while-I-eat routine, the wrangling and chasing and taking outside during crying. We do it at every other dinner, party and BBQ and I never ever care. But its a shower for H and I. Is it so wrong to ask that I get to enjoy the company of my friends and family?
I'll hold lil Tef. Not b/c I agree with Tef, 'cause Marie is totally right. I just wanna hold lil Tef.
I'd be really upset too, likely for a long time.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DIt is your party and all, but arent the kids family too (say, a cousin's kid)? I don't get this argument, but, it is your party so do what you want. But, be prepared for people nto able to attend.
I love this so much
I've been meh about the whole thread, but I'll fight you to hold lil' tef!
Dude, totally say something about this to him. That's BS.
I'd tell him to get his arse home next time. But, I have lost some of my niceness of late because of frustration with juggling work/baby as if I am the only parent who is busy! /rant
It's a Rangers jersey so you better hold it lest I be tempted to burn it.
Unless it says Messier on the back. I love me some Messier.
Click me, click me!
Me, too! It's just so "My little precious ones have given my life meaning! I have no identity of my own because I'm a mommy now!" **shudder**
But then, I also think there ought to be a leash law for kids in public places. Flame away!
We can take turns. I'd feel terrible if I had to put ZB's mama in the hospital.
The Democrat must be the one in the blue dress, so I'm winning!!!
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DFor me, that's fine if they don't attend. Why do they automatically assume that they can bring their kids?
(Personally, I really don't mind having kids at parties, but I just find it odd that people assume they can bring their kids. DH is that way, and I always have to remind him, or flat out tell him we need to get a babysitter.)