OK, I'm going crazy and need to vent somewhere. I'm seriously about to scream and go off on someone which would probably be a bad idea right now...
SIL had a baby on Feb. 10th and MIL decided to come up and "help out". Only, SIL and MIL don't get along... at all. And SIL didn't want her here and doesn't want her help at all, so MIL never spends any time with SIL and the baby. Instead, she's over at our house staying with us. And she hasn't left. The baby is almost a month old, and she's still here...
On top of that, she's making all these changed to the house, like painting the laundry room, replacing the cabinet in the laundry room, and the other day she pulled up this plant that was in front of our kitchen window. All that is fine and dandy, except I don't recall either DH or I asking her to do ANY of these things and yet whenever anything comes up she always says something like "I just spent $75 at Home Depot to do such-and-such a project on the house!". Great. We didn't ask for it! Don't try to make us feel guilty becuase you do these things on your own will. Frankly, I liked that plant outside of the kitchen window! It was kind of dying and overgrown but it blocked our kitchen window from being seen from the street and I like that privacy.
THEN, some of you may remember how my SIL ruined some of my towels a while back. Not a huge deal, they're just towels, whatever. Well, I just opened up the drawer in the kitchen where I keep my unpaper towels and what do I see? MIL has taken yet another towel of mine and has CUT IT UP and is now using them for cleaning towels. WTF?!?! And for all I know she's cut up a bunch of them but I just saw the one and got pissed and slammed the door. I know, they are just towels, but, seriously, who destroys someone else's towels?? It's not like I don't have a drawer full of cleaning clothes already that she had to cut up a regular towel in order to clean with. I just don't get WHY! This leaves us with 4 regular towels now. Again, that's plenty for DH and I, but what happens if we have an out of town guest? I get to spend yet more money to buy yet more towels. JOY! Because I don't have other things I'd prefer to spend my money on that re-buying towels every couple of months.
I'm seriously over this. It baffles me that she feels like she can come stay here for a month with no exact date of departure. I mentioned this to my brother and his wife and they both laughed and said that if I ever did that to them they'd kick my butt out after three days! And rightfully so, it's extremely rude. Yet MIL seems to think nothing of it. DH said I just have to learn to live with her (he has) and she is my family now, too. I don't know. You can disown parents, right? Because I'm really tempted right now.
Honestly, I like her just fine when she's not in the same house as us. But I am really tempted to move and not tell her where we live just so this situation can never arise again.
Thanks for bearing with me. Rant over. I feel better now.
Janine & Cody | Georgetown, Grand Cayman | Feb. 28th, 2012
Surprise BFP | Baby Due Late July/Early August 2013
I believe in a lot of things. I believe in fresh tennis balls, the healing power of bunnies, and that the novels of Susan Sontag are something I'll never read. In fact, I don't even know who Susan Sontag is. What is she... like... a painter? I believe in Crystal Lite because I believe in ME. I believe in the movies of Val Kilmer, though these days it ain't so easy. I believe in Darren Sproles, the word "dabble", the first season of "Silk Stockings", and big, warm, moist, gooey chocolate chip cookies that melt in your mouth and all over your face.