HockeyAndSoccerMomof4
09-13-2009, 03:38 PM
My MIL is visiting us for the next 2 weeks (spur of the moment-as usual). She got here late Thursday and I'm already counting down the days until she leaves. She takes advantage of every opportunity to insult my parenting (and any other decision that I make) as possible.
When she first got here, dh and I gave her a tour of the house since she hadn't seen it since we remodeled last Christmas which is when she was here last. So, she asked me why we felt the need to remodel our house. Excuse me??? I told her it's our money and what we do with it is our business. She then said "well, it just seems like it was a waste of money since there was nothing wrong with the house before". Well last time I checked this wasn't your house and the only thing that matters is what we thought. So, she just dropped it and so did I.
Yesterday, she came up to me and said "I took a look in the kids playroom and they have way more toys in there than they really need. Toys won't make them happy-love will" :mad: I asked her if she was accusing me of not giving my kids love and she said "no, it was just an observation". I wanted to say that while she was making observations that maybe she could observe me kicking her out of my house!! But not even 2 hours after this, she takes them to the toy store and buys them $200 worth of toys. WTH?? I told dh if she made 1 more comment to me about anything that she was out of here and he would be hard pressed to get me to let her back in. He said he would talk to her about it.
We didn't have any problems yesterday so I figured dh's talk with her must have worked. WRONG!! This morning Nick had hockey practice really early. His coach always calls everyone's house to confirm that they are coming. But for some reason this morning, I forgot about the call and went ahead and got in the shower. So while I was in the shower the phone rang-the coach. So without my knowledge, MIL picks up the phone and tells him that I said Nick wasn't coming. :mad: She said "hockey is a much too dangerous sport for Nick to play". I told her that it's great that she has such strong feelings about what sports are too dangerous but the decision isn't hers considering Nick isn't her kid!!
If you made it this far, thanks for reading. I feel a lot better now. Ughh. I just want her gone!!
When she first got here, dh and I gave her a tour of the house since she hadn't seen it since we remodeled last Christmas which is when she was here last. So, she asked me why we felt the need to remodel our house. Excuse me??? I told her it's our money and what we do with it is our business. She then said "well, it just seems like it was a waste of money since there was nothing wrong with the house before". Well last time I checked this wasn't your house and the only thing that matters is what we thought. So, she just dropped it and so did I.
Yesterday, she came up to me and said "I took a look in the kids playroom and they have way more toys in there than they really need. Toys won't make them happy-love will" :mad: I asked her if she was accusing me of not giving my kids love and she said "no, it was just an observation". I wanted to say that while she was making observations that maybe she could observe me kicking her out of my house!! But not even 2 hours after this, she takes them to the toy store and buys them $200 worth of toys. WTH?? I told dh if she made 1 more comment to me about anything that she was out of here and he would be hard pressed to get me to let her back in. He said he would talk to her about it.
We didn't have any problems yesterday so I figured dh's talk with her must have worked. WRONG!! This morning Nick had hockey practice really early. His coach always calls everyone's house to confirm that they are coming. But for some reason this morning, I forgot about the call and went ahead and got in the shower. So while I was in the shower the phone rang-the coach. So without my knowledge, MIL picks up the phone and tells him that I said Nick wasn't coming. :mad: She said "hockey is a much too dangerous sport for Nick to play". I told her that it's great that she has such strong feelings about what sports are too dangerous but the decision isn't hers considering Nick isn't her kid!!
If you made it this far, thanks for reading. I feel a lot better now. Ughh. I just want her gone!!