Family Bitchfest -- 'Merican Holiday Edition

[kristhegirl]

Best, cosmicav!!

[callmeKD]

Nov 26, 2016 11:55:24 GMT -5 cosmicav said:

Nov 24, 2016 21:09:30 GMT -5 kristhegirl said:

Oh, my MIL did say the baby's sonogram on the fridge "looks like a boy." Yes, fetus faces are known for their gender identifiers. :/

(We're team green. I would love another girl, or a boy. She's definitely one to think one of each is perfect, though.)

This is clearly very minor but I almost wish this baby was a girl just so she's wrong. I'm not petty or anything, though. Never.

I'm petty

Last pregnancy my mom and her stupid husband kept having "visions" that I was having a girl. If I told them that it could be either, they were like "you just don't understand the visions." You know, I'm too much of a heathen and all. Anyway when I found out it was a boy, I did ALL the petty happy dances. In your face bitch!!!!

+1 for also being petty. When I was pregnant with DD, my MIL said that "we only have boys." I loved it when we found out we were having a girl.

[ladytiffany24]

@justinslovo 🙄🙄🙄

[kristhegirl]

@justinslovo you need an awful name to call the baby for now. Like Justino or Boiler or something, and stand firm that that is the name you're trying out. It can't be remotely normal.

[erinshelley21]

@justinslovo your mil is the type that they make movies out of.

[obi]

Nov 27, 2016 17:54:53 GMT -5 @justinslovo said:

We had a decent, normal Thanksgiving meal yesterday. I was shocked! Lol.

Today she topped of the visit by saying she wanted to have a discussion and make a blessing over "her baby", aka the baby in MY uterus, BUT she wanted the perfect time when she wasn't too drunk and she never found that time...o.m.g.

And this is after she touched my belly and yelled "this is your grammy baby boy with no name. I love you baby (insert whatever name she wanted to try out in that moment)" and then she would look at me and my H for a reaction on her name suggestions. This happened basically anytime we were in the same room

And of course one time baby boy with no name kicked her when she said her late step father's name paired with her late brother's name. H never met, nor knows much of anything about these people but apparently it is fate.

This is so much like my MIL, minus the blessing part
Whenever she gets drunk she tells me that we need to have a talk when she is sober. It never happens.
Also the belly touching when I was KU with DS and "grammys boy". She always pointed at my belly and said "thats MY baby" when we were out and saw people she knew.
Every time she sees DS she yells "GRAMMYS BO-O-O-OoOoooY!". It drives me up the damn wall. I love that she loves him but omg he has a name.

Also, pretty sure you win this holiday bitchfest, haha. Congrats?

[obi]

Nov 28, 2016 8:55:46 GMT -5 @justinslovo said:

obi I die at the "Grammys booooooy" because she definately always says "grammy's girlies"

Maybe it is something to do with the name grammy? My mom is called grandma and although we have our own issues, she is relatively normal as a grandmother. Lol.

You might be right. My mom is Grandma and as close to normal as they come.

The plot thickens...

[meggypoo1]

Omg @justinslovo. Sounds like my MIL. Although, she keeps for getting about this baby. Poor little T 😞

[kristhegirl]

My MIL is grammie and doesn't claim my children like this. She might be the exception, though.

[erinshelley21]

One of my grandmas was Grammy and she was a jewel. I mean that in a not nice way.

[Quinstar]

Does Bammie count? I couldn't say grammie as a little kid, so it became bammie and stuck. My bammie was amazing.

[glb30]

I wish my inlaws were a little more outrageous, so I could more easily explain why I am always so annoyed around them. Instead, its more like little things that eventually cause me to kind of get bitchy and look like I'm the problem. Two examples:

1. On Thanksgiving day, I had a migraine that got progressively worse and worse. My H and I left during hour 5 of the migraine and I left both of my phones at my brother in laws. The next 3 days, anytime we left somewhere, my MIL asked if I had everything. I'd say yes. She'd ask specifically about my phones. I eventually sort of snapped and looked like a bitch.

2. My MIL and SIL invited me to high tea. I went. Through out the tea, my MIL kept talking about how surprised she was that I came Bc they were worried I don't like tea. I mean, she said she was surprised roughly 10 times. Again, I eventually have kind of a snappy reply about liking tea, and spending time with people.

It's more of an annoyance that eventually gets almost rude and condescending, but she always phrases it in a way where she is being nice, and I'm the jerk.

Oh- and I puked roughly 20 times over the course of the weekend, and each time she told me she "never felt better than when she was pregnant." My SIL is due a week ahead of me, and wasn't sick at all, so I already was feeling like the dramatic pregnant person. It just was annoying.