Haha I wish. His brother is buying stuff requested by their dad (Jeff Goldblum only knows what else he might need since he’s never gotten rid of anything??) and then converting the rest to an Amazon gift card for him to buy stuff after he moves. Again I say, these parents don’t deserve the fantastic children they happened to spawn.
Ok none of this is super bad but I’m annoyed. We’ve been at D’s parents’ place since Wednesday. We planned all asking to see my grandmothers today (Saturday). It’s now 2:45 and we are just leaving. Before we left FIL told C to be sure he packed his suit so they could go swimming. Also said he’d take the kids to the Air Zoo on Friday. Cool. Well Friday FIL didn’t do shit but we got roped into cooking a second turkey dinner for D’s godparents. Which in and of itself was nice, but nothing else happened. Friday night I had D make sure FIL was planning to take him swimming early in the morning so we could leave. Yup, all set, C is pumped. This morning: oh the Y actually isn’t open until 1. So I had to practically kick them out at 10 to go to the Air Zoo instead. And it was fun but now C is crying because he really wanted to go swimming. And we said be back by noon, he texted at 12:30 asking if they could have lunch after they left. So they get Happy Meals and then play at McD’s. Yes, fun, good grandpa, but we’ve been here for days and my 90+ year old grandmothers would like to see us for an hour.
That's some annoying bullshit all the more because they'd probably be all the quickness if they were D's grandmas.
Want some emotional manipulation for your Monday? text to N from MIL: “hi, not sure why dad said I need cheering up. Probably just sad because I didn’t see you on my birthday and we weren’t invited anywhere for thanksgiving LOL. Hopefully you can bring E by soon.”
Wow. IF that wasn't intentionally manipulative, how does someone not recognize how passive aggressive and whiny that sounds?
STOP ASKING THE DAMN BABY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS. Come to her if you want to see her, maybe hold her for a nap while your poor DIL gets a nap or a bath. Maybe clean their kitchen while she eats. Why is it so hard for MIL to try and work into your lives, instead of asking you to work into hers? I hate her.
Me: Between work, personal commitments, and going out of town I am going to collapse from stress My actual mother: Oh I’m sorry sweetie. Hey listen do you think you are gonna get to designing our* Christmas cards soon? *her and my dads
Oh very. My dads apparently pouting I didn’t do it already. They sent me pics Sunday night and I have repeatedly told them until like Dec 20th I am slammed. They didn’t ask, just assumed I’d do it *sigh*
Remember when we were kids and would get reamed for being so thoughtless and rude? Pepperidge Farm should remind our parents.
Maybe they could enter the 21st century and use VistaPrint or any of the other million print services out there instead of dumping their crap on their daughter.
So...they are letter people. They have me make a collage of all of the pics they like from the year (and I usually do my sibs a favor a throw out some of the truly awful choices they make) and then they print the pics on one side of paper and the letter on the other. Its truly as cringey as any Christmas letter you could imagine. Cant wait to see if they tee up my sister’s divorce in there. (They don’t show anyone the word part beforehand or I would attempt to stop the madness).
There's got to be a collage tool that'd work? My parents have done letters ever since I was a kid, but I actually like theirs, probably because they're funny and not sappy or cringey. My grandparents' on the other hand, ugh.
This has been my increasing gripe with my parents. It’s like all the manners they worked so hard to drum into my head suddenly don’t exist.
I love this, it's hilarious. Some cousin of my dad's sends one out every year where each paragraph ends with a PRAISE JESUS!! regardless of whether the paragraph was about their daughter's college graduation or their son like, going to jail.
That reminds me of the Christmas letter my step-mom sent a few years ago, all religious like that, and how well her youngest son is doing on house arrest.
Chickens set me straight before I start a Whole Thing with my mom. First, background: we are doing Christmas morning at our house and no one is invited. We host the meal later but for the morning, I want to open presents, etc. with just the 3 of us. My mom has made a few comments about little purchases she’s grabbed for L “from Santa”. I strongly think she’s going to wrap a bunch of gifts for her and label some from Grammy & Grampy and some from Santa. She is obsessed with L and can be overbearing but I can also be sensitive. Am I an asshole if I say no one but me/N is allowed to be Santa? I don’t want her getting Santa gifts from anyone else. Reasonable?
I can see a scenario where "Santa" also leaves gifts for L at grandma's house, and grandma brings them to L (the Easter Bunny did this for us/my Grammie and Grampie). I think as long as y'all keep your tradition of just you three on Christmas morning, the gift from your mom can be signed "love grandma and grampa" or "love Santa".