Who's eating crackers?

[vanessalc]

It's been a little slow around these parts lately, so let's complain about the people eating crackers in our lives! I can't be the only one who has some cracker eaters in their life lately, so let's hear it!

My BIL and his wife eat crackers for me. My niece's b-day was in March and we still haven't gotten a thank you (text/card..nothing) for the Cooking class and the apron I made her for her birthday. They also tried to loan us the pnp we got them when niece was born when coop hit the scene (again no acknowledgement of the gift) because "They never use it". Well, they just had a boy, and I gave them probably a couple hundred bucks worth of boy clothes and gear not a single word of thanks as BIL is packing it all into his AND MIL's cars.

H is eating crackers because he thinks it is OK to bring Coop to visit them in the hospital. I've given him a million reasons why that's not OK, but they just don't compute! And it never dawned on him that he needed to send flowers...Even though I told him to.

[somethingcleverer]

Right now I'll say H because we are at a party and I'm tired and ready to go and he's still drinking and living it up with the boys. The kids are hyped up and need to go home!

Also chemo side effects my nails are all nasty and I think I have a toenail that's about to fall off. I'm ready to just have everything be normal!

[vanessalc]

Jul 31, 2016 19:10:16 GMT -5 somethingcleverer said:

Right now I'll say H because we are at a party and I'm tired and ready to go and he's still drinking and living it up with the boys. The kids are hyped up and need to go home!

Also chemo side effects my nails are all nasty and I think I have a toenail that's about to fall off. I'm ready to just have everything be normal!

I hate when Brian does that! I will get super annoying and text repeatedly "home now!"
I can't even imagine how much it must suck to have those constant reminders. Hang in there, before you know it this will all be a memory of how strong and how fierce a fighter you are.

[summergirl1211]

My SIL. My nephew is 13 months and she's fed him organic food ever since he started eating solids. When we were talking about pre-packaged non-organic food that she had gotten for him while they were traveling, she said he wouldn't eat it because it was "fake food". Um, just because it's not organic doesn't mean it's fake.

Also, she and my brother never acknowledge anything about Riley or us as a family on Facebook. Ever. It could be a birthday party, her first steps, my pregnancy announcement, any kind of major milestone and they ignore it. Yet they'll later acknowledge the post when they're talking about something else, or they'll comment a million times on distant relatives' or long lost friends' posts constantly. It's so odd. I know I'm being petty about it, but she's their only niece.

[heatherbee]

Aug 1, 2016 8:27:24 GMT -5 summergirl1211 said:

My SIL. My nephew is 13 months and she's fed him organic food ever since he started eating solids. When we were talking about pre-packaged non-organic food that she had gotten for him while they were traveling, she said he wouldn't eat it because it was "fake food". Um, just because it's not organic doesn't mean it's fake.

Also, she and my brother never acknowledge anything about Riley or us as a family on Facebook. Ever. It could be a birthday party, her first steps, my pregnancy announcement, any kind of major milestone and they ignore it. Yet they'll later acknowledge the post when they're talking about something else, or they'll comment a million times on distant relatives' or long lost friends' posts constantly. It's so odd. I know I'm being petty about it, but she's their only niece.

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That is frustrating! Also my kids lived on "fake food" this entire week because we are traveling and so far they have survived. There was even one day they had McDonalds twice. Mom of the year but at least I fed my kids right?

[somethingcleverer]

Lol @ fake food. I'm sure there are lots of hungry kids that would be happy to eat that food. It's not like she was trying to feed him plastic toy food.

[xanthepants]

Fake food. Oh geez. My mom's step daughter?#@$@ (weird because she's like 52 now) has 2 kids and is a giant entitled weirdo about food. My mom says it's such a pain to have them visit because she essentially has to get an entire grocery list of organic foods and run all over town prior to their visits for the kids. I tell her to just buy regular old bananas and see what happens....

[trixi282]

xanthepants, i would totally do that (buy regular instead) and just take the stickers off and be like "oh yeah, it's all organic fruit/veggies/etc. Whatever - what they don't know won't kill them.

summergirl1211, i can kind of relate to your bro/SIL situation. Mine is the same way with certain things and it pisses me off. My SIL will "like" or comment on things, but honestly the entire time I was pregnant and going through everything with E - I was emailing the family all the time with updates... never heard a peep from either of them. Not even a quick email to say 'Thinking of you, and praying" Not even 5 words.... not even one word.

I did the caringbridge thing - and again, I never once saw them even sign on to our page. No "likes" on those updates, no comments, nothing. I never even talked to either of them. I left him plenty of messages, and even emailed and was like "call me when you have a chance" - never called back. I'm still bitter, clearly.

[jennmm]

xanthepants, that's crazy. There is no way I would expect someone to do that for me. If you're going to be like that, I'd say BYOF.

[xanthepants]

trixi282, that would totally hurt my feelings if I went thru what you went thru. MY GOD WOMAN have you no emotions?!?!?!(I'm saying that to her in my head and on here).

[summergirl1211]

trixi282, that's awful! I'm sorry they didn't seem to care at all. I would be bitter about that as well.

[trixi282]

Yeah, it pissed me off, and as I said - still kind of does. I mean it's not like it was hard to get in touch with me for 6.5 weeks. I was hospital bound, I had my cell phone, and a computer. Call me on your drive from work to get the kids or something... I'm not going anywhere!

But yeah - my church going brother and sister-in-law never once told me I was in their prayers. I'm sure I was, but it's nice to know they at least got the emails I sent.... It makes me so angry thinking about it again.... ha. anyway.

Best part is my niece had a birth defect as well, and was in the NICU for like 5 weeks.... I wrote on their caring bridge all the time... To not hear a word is so rude. Then my SIL will post things about being a NICU mom and she tags me or something... but I'm like... OK, but not once when we were going thru everything did you even say a word to me. Never did you call or write or text. Nothing (except to like or comment on pictures on FB) So much for solidarity.

[trixi282]

.....and just like that I log in to my caringbridge tonight (after doing an update last night) to see a comment from my SIL.... freaky.

[vanessalc]

trixi282, that's freaky! Anything else you'd like her to do...lol

[summergirl1211]

Aug 1, 2016 23:32:55 GMT -5 trixi282 said:

.....and just like that I log in to my caringbridge tonight (after doing an update last night) to see a comment from my SIL.... freaky.

Too funny trixi282. My brother and SIL also wished Riley a happy birthday on FB too. For like the first time ever. So so weird.