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Nuggets of IL goodness

MIL, stepFIL, and GPaIL came into town early Thursday morning. After getting them from the airport, DH took them out to lunch then they picked up Mr. Chubby from daycare. Y'all, I was nervous about MIL with Mr. Chubby. I was happy that DH was there to supervise her with him.

MIL treats Mr. Chubby as a fun toy. Sorry lady, he's a tiny person who has his own opinions of how his world should be and unfortunately, he hasn't quite learned how to voice them.

So I got home on Thursday to a kid who was freaking the feck out because he was hungry and wanted to sleep, not be held and have toys waved in his face. I explained to her about the general schedule we keep him on and she finally got it.

On Sundy, it was nephew's baptism. Mr Chubby slept through the night, which was awesome but it also screwed up his sleep schedule and he was a little out of sorts. He catnapped in the car and during the service, but by the time we got to the party at 2:30 pm I could tell we were heading towards a meltdown because it had been since about 8 am that he'd had good sleep. So I fed him, and trying to get him to sleep but it wasn't happening.

Around this time, MIL decides that she wants a picture of DH, her, GPaIL, and Mr. Chubby (her 4 generations photo). Of course, she wants Mr. Chubby to also smile on command. This is something he has not mastered yet. And all the meanwhile, Mr. Chubby is getting PISSED. So DH snaps at her that she needed to think about this earlier when he was happier or some time on Thursday, Friday, or Saturday instead of Sunday. She was all butt hurt and literally stomped away and went on a walk outside (in the 110 degree heat). Tard face.

The entire car ride home DH ranted and raved how she acts like a retarded teenager, behaves constantly like a 2 yo, and she's just doing stuff like this for herself and doesn't think about us. I just nodded in agreement.

Later that night, DH played Monopoly with her to make her feel better.

Re: Nuggets of IL goodness

  • I love that a game of Monopoly was what soothed her from being all butthurt.  :) 

    I would have lost it on my MIL if I were you.  Poor Mr. Chubbers.  You know that she's going to be the grandma that he avoids like the plague. 
  • Here's more.

    1. They decided yesterday to go to the aquarium here. The aquarium is a little over a hour from our house. MIL wanted to bring Mr. Chubby. I have no problem with bringing him out of the house, but this was going to be an all day affair so there was no way he was going to make it. So I brought him to daycare while they went off.

    On the way home from work, I picked up The Chubbster and then steeled myself for her brand of stupid. Welp, she was at SILs hanging out. Mr Chubby has a routine...we get home and I put him in his high chair or on the play mat and then do some unloading/unpacking. Around 5:30, I start getting him ready for bed. By 6, he's out for the night. Deviate from this, and he is not happy. Boy likes his food and his sleep.

    Well, MIL still had not gotten her 4 generations photo. I tell DH about my plans for Mr. Chubby and he calls MIL and says "you have 30 minutes or less to get over here or you miss your window" MIL is notoriously slow. Like you need to add on an additional 30 minutes of time for any time estimate she gives you. MIL says she'll be over, SIL wants to feed her kid and stuff. If MIL is slow, SIL is just as worse. So of course, a hour later they show up. Chubby is NOT happy. And of course she wants her damn photos. He was good enough for the photo except MIL wanted Chubby doing this or that. DH told her to deal, he wasn't crying and that was good enough.

    She was a little pouty because she wanted more pictures. Feck, she had a camera jammed in his face the entire time they were there. She should have enough. I get that she hasn't seen him, but lord...the kid may be blind due to her flash. Conn, I totally believe she'll be that grandma that he tries to avoid.

    2. After I put Chubby down for bed, MIL kept saying "I really wish you would have gone with us today". Um, I just had a baby. I have no PTO, and Mondays are busy for us. Besides, I would have rather tried cutting myself with a pair or dull, rusty scissors.

    3. SIL has entered her kid into some baby contest. She thinks he is the cutest thing ever and that everything he does is so AMAZING and OMG NO KID IS THIS GREAT. FYI, he's average. In general, babies are cute but he's not baby model cute. FYI, he isn't doing anything more special than any other kid. It's just special to you because your his parents. I think Mr. Chubby is an amazing baby, but then again he's mine. I'm not entering him into contests and flooding your email inbox about voting for him, so stop doing it to mine mmkay? I'm tempted to start voting for other kids.
  • I love all of this.

    And I agree that MIL will be the grandma your son will avoid.
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