The minute irritations with visiting the in-laws (without my husband) started well before we left...
On Monday, I called my mother-in-law to get direction to the new house and ask her to pick up a few things for my son at the grocery store. We chatted for a while and she seemed genuinely excited to see us this week.
Especially since it turns out that my sister-in-law (Crunchy Munchy) that's coming from L.A. and leaving the kids with my in-laws for a few days while she goes to a baby shower somewhere else in Oklahoma (geezz, that's a lot of s'plainin') got her travel dates WRONG. She is actually going to be gone Thursday, Friday, and Saturday and not just on Friday and Saturday as originally planned...
For my mother-in-law, who is still living out of boxes, it seems that EXTRA day was enough to drive her EXTRA nuts and she thanked profusely me for being there to help.
By Tuesday morning, I got a call from the other sister-in-law (Make-it-Easy Mom), who wanted to let me know that, off the phone, my mother-in-law is STILL harping about me infringing on her time with her L.A. grandchildren that she never, ever sees...whaw! This is in spite of countless "oh I'm so excited you're coming to visit"...
Umm... I think if you can afford to special order (then ship) your new front door directly from China for your newly-built, custom-designed home, you can afford a few rinky-dink plane tickets on coach to see your grandchildren...
You can also stop being two-faced and fake...
...and so it begins.
On Monday, I called my mother-in-law to get direction to the new house and ask her to pick up a few things for my son at the grocery store. We chatted for a while and she seemed genuinely excited to see us this week.
Especially since it turns out that my sister-in-law (Crunchy Munchy) that's coming from L.A. and leaving the kids with my in-laws for a few days while she goes to a baby shower somewhere else in Oklahoma (geezz, that's a lot of s'plainin') got her travel dates WRONG. She is actually going to be gone Thursday, Friday, and Saturday and not just on Friday and Saturday as originally planned...
For my mother-in-law, who is still living out of boxes, it seems that EXTRA day was enough to drive her EXTRA nuts and she thanked profusely me for being there to help.
By Tuesday morning, I got a call from the other sister-in-law (Make-it-Easy Mom), who wanted to let me know that, off the phone, my mother-in-law is STILL harping about me infringing on her time with her L.A. grandchildren that she never, ever sees...whaw! This is in spite of countless "oh I'm so excited you're coming to visit"...
Umm... I think if you can afford to special order (then ship) your new front door directly from China for your newly-built, custom-designed home, you can afford a few rinky-dink plane tickets on coach to see your grandchildren...
You can also stop being two-faced and fake...
...and so it begins.
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