I think of you whenever I get exhausted with my one. I have no idea how you do it
Yup. I'm pretty sure if she started every MBF I might never post.
Ha!
Seriously though, I had no coffee today, DH is currently doing after hours work downstairs, BUT kids are all asleep (EVEN DD1)... I am going to pass out now. Small wins.
We found out with SIL is pissy and deleted us on facebook. We didnt go to her sons 4th birthday party, which less than a week after DH got out of the hospital, 3 hours away. We hadnt celebrated christmas yet, we hadnt seen our older kids. We were taking that weekend to do all of those things. We told them we weren't going. Seriously, get over yourself. I cant wait for her to ask me why I didn't accept her friend request. Maybe she shouldn't have deleted DH and I in the first place.
We found out with SIL is pissy and deleted us on facebook. We didnt go to her sons 4th birthday party, which less than a week after DH got out of the hospital, 3 hours away. We hadnt celebrated christmas yet, we hadnt seen our older kids. We were taking that weekend to do all of those things. We told them we weren't going. Seriously, get over yourself. I cant wait for her to ask me why I didn't accept her friend request. Maybe she shouldn't have deleted DH and I in the first place.
My SIL unfriended me on FB a year or so ago. No reason that I can determine, aside from her being cray-cray and mad at my mom at the time. What is it with these people?
She hasn't re-friended me, and I'm totally okay with that. 95% of her posts were bitching about traffic and never any photos of her LO. So yeah, I can do without that.
My MIL sent me a text out of the blue yesterday, the gist of which was-- "I just found out that there are lots of alternatives to formula! Like raw goats milk! Isn't that interesting??!"
She NEVER contacts me or talks to me when we call them, but she sends crap like that on a bi-monthly basis. I know she doesn't "approve" of formula feeding but she'd never actually say that. She's so damn passive aggressive it makes me want to scream.
And she's scientifically incorrect about so many things... Like how it's impossible to get pregnant while you're breastfeeding. LOL. I showed HER wrong.
And she's scientifically incorrect about so many things... Like how it's impossible to get pregnant while you're breastfeeding. LOL. I showed HER wrong.
Post by soon2bmrsn on Mar 13, 2015 16:48:30 GMT -5
@liv, I've found that the "advice" given to me by mom/MIL significantly decreases with each child. (Not that this is surprising!) They both weighed in more than necessary with #1 but have come to understand over time that we don't give a f*ck what they think. I used to have so many awkward convos with MIL about breastfeeding but now she's just resigned to the fact that I'm going to do it well beyond a year so there's nothing she can say.
@liv, I've found that the "advice" given to me by mom/MIL significantly decreases with each child. (Not that this is surprising!) They both weighed in more than necessary with #1 but have come to understand over time that we don't give a f*ck what they think. I used to have so many awkward convos with MIL about breastfeeding but now she's just resigned to the fact that I'm going to do it well beyond a year so there's nothing she can say.
So, something to look forward to?
That actually IS encouraging!! I keep hoping that will be the case. I never know if I should confront or just ignore things. Hopefully "advice" will simply subside naturally.
[DH and I are both the oldest kids of big families and the only ones so far to be married with kids. So we get wayyyy too many uninvited comments and "advice" from both sides. I've already had a few convos with MIL about how every family does things differently and we need to have basic boundaries respected (telling me I need to be "sexually ready" all the time and more "enticing" for my husband, her son, is not appropriate, for example). ]
Thank you for weighing in-- I'm encouraged that maybe someday I won't have to deal with this kind of thing on every front.
@liv, I've found that the "advice" given to me by mom/MIL significantly decreases with each child. (Not that this is surprising!) They both weighed in more than necessary with #1 but have come to understand over time that we don't give a f*ck what they think. I used to have so many awkward convos with MIL about breastfeeding but now she's just resigned to the fact that I'm going to do it well beyond a year so there's nothing she can say.
So, something to look forward to?
That actually IS encouraging!! I keep hoping that will be the case. I never know if I should confront or just ignore things. Hopefully "advice" will simply subside naturally.
[DH and I are both the oldest kids of big families and the only ones so far to be married with kids. So we get wayyyy too many uninvited comments and "advice" from both sides. I've already had a few convos with MIL about how every family does things differently and we need to have basic boundaries respected (telling me I need to be "sexually ready" all the time and more "enticing" for my husband, her son, is not appropriate, for example). ]
Thank you for weighing in-- I'm encouraged that maybe someday I won't have to deal with this kind of thing on every front.
"Sexually ready" !?!? WTAF?
Bring on the in law thread. We need more of Liv's stories!
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