No, no, no.. Not again.... I just got rid of these people. 
Make it stopppppp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Make it stopppppp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK--so last night, Jonathan is doing something cute, and DH takes a picture of him on his picture phone and sends it to FIL's cell phone. FIL calls him immediately and asks what in the world the picture is supposed to be of. They talk for a few minutes and FIL asks DH (for about the 409th time) if he's going to be able to get time off for Thanksgiving. Ummm.. No. No vacation between the middle of November and the Saturday before Christmas. FIL automatically assumes then, that we're coming to visit them before the vacation cut-off. Ummmm. No. Not quite. Well, the cell connection drops. End of conversation... For the moment.
So, two hours later, he calls back (we're in the grocery store) and starts asking DH if we can leave the kid there when we come in October and they can bring him back with them at Thanksgiving. Now, they've already discussed that DH doesn't get time off at Thanksgiving. So, we're not going to Delaware. And they're not going to Delaware because FIL for some reason is ticked off at his family over his grandma's funeral. So, how are we gonna meet up to get the kid? That makes no sense. Especially when we're not goingto LA at all. He keeps telling his dad that we may have to make a trip to TX if my great grandma dies. But that's all up in the air. Oh... and where do they get off thinking I'm gonna leave my child with them for 2-4 weeks? Not even...
And then it hits me. They want to come HERE for Thanksgiving.
So, I ask DH about it. Yeah, they want to come here for Thanksgiving. I told him we just got rid of them and they want to come back again. He rolled his eyes. I told him I absolutely did NOT want a repeat of what we just had. It was the longest week of my life and I was not going through that again. He asked what we were supposed to do. They want to come to visit and have us tell them "no"??? Um, yeah, exactly. Tell them we have plans, or that we want to have some family time. JUST OUR FAMILY. The THREE of us. Now, I have overheard four different conversations on this same subject. DH always says the same exact thing, and they still only hear what they want to hear. He tells them that we need to go to TX, because we've made 3 trips to LA and not one to TX. His father reads into that that since we'll be in TX, we're close to LA, so we'll come to see them. NO. That's not what we said.
Oh, I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO not for this. I was able to make it for 7 months without seeing them and I didn't have a problem. Two hours into their visit, I wanted them to go home. Four hours into their visit, they'd already had a fight with DH and griped about everything we'd done with the house. Ten days later I didn't care what they did as long as they were out of my house. I am NOT subjecting myself to this again.
BITE ME!!!!
I don't want these people in my house at Thanksgiving. I want two days off in peace. I don't want to go back to work more uptight than I was before vacation. And I don't want to spend Christmas with them, either. DH doesn't have enough vacation to make it worth it. And he's taking 2 of his 4 days of vacation for the year to go to a Men's Retreat in Michigan. We can't just up and go to LA, so he can spend 2 days traveling and one day there. Get a grip, people. And just because they want to see us, doesn't mean that we want to see them. We have other family. We have MY family, who they happen to forget that we didn't get to see on our last trip to LA. DH also didn't get to take Jonathan to see my mom while they were there in April, either. Because FIL had him working his
off the entire time.
This isn't fair. It isn't fair to US. We can't do anything without them thinking that they need to be a part of it. We also have rules that Jonathan has to abide by. When they're here, they go out the window. DH has a job. He needs to sleep during the day so he can work at night. He doesn't need to be kept up just so they can be entertained. It isn't fair to ME. I'm the one that's had to put up with all their crap and entertain them when DH isn't here. I'm the one that has to live with DH after they get him all ticked off and then leave. I'm the one that has to pick up the pieces when Jonathan starts screaming when he realizes that they're gone. I mean, can I just for once since we got married, have some peace during ONE holiday????
Anyone got chocolate??????????????
Make it stopppppp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Make it stopppppp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OK--so last night, Jonathan is doing something cute, and DH takes a picture of him on his picture phone and sends it to FIL's cell phone. FIL calls him immediately and asks what in the world the picture is supposed to be of. They talk for a few minutes and FIL asks DH (for about the 409th time) if he's going to be able to get time off for Thanksgiving. Ummm.. No. No vacation between the middle of November and the Saturday before Christmas. FIL automatically assumes then, that we're coming to visit them before the vacation cut-off. Ummmm. No. Not quite. Well, the cell connection drops. End of conversation... For the moment.
So, two hours later, he calls back (we're in the grocery store) and starts asking DH if we can leave the kid there when we come in October and they can bring him back with them at Thanksgiving. Now, they've already discussed that DH doesn't get time off at Thanksgiving. So, we're not going to Delaware. And they're not going to Delaware because FIL for some reason is ticked off at his family over his grandma's funeral. So, how are we gonna meet up to get the kid? That makes no sense. Especially when we're not goingto LA at all. He keeps telling his dad that we may have to make a trip to TX if my great grandma dies. But that's all up in the air. Oh... and where do they get off thinking I'm gonna leave my child with them for 2-4 weeks? Not even...
And then it hits me. They want to come HERE for Thanksgiving.
So, I ask DH about it. Yeah, they want to come here for Thanksgiving. I told him we just got rid of them and they want to come back again. He rolled his eyes. I told him I absolutely did NOT want a repeat of what we just had. It was the longest week of my life and I was not going through that again. He asked what we were supposed to do. They want to come to visit and have us tell them "no"??? Um, yeah, exactly. Tell them we have plans, or that we want to have some family time. JUST OUR FAMILY. The THREE of us. Now, I have overheard four different conversations on this same subject. DH always says the same exact thing, and they still only hear what they want to hear. He tells them that we need to go to TX, because we've made 3 trips to LA and not one to TX. His father reads into that that since we'll be in TX, we're close to LA, so we'll come to see them. NO. That's not what we said.
Oh, I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO not for this. I was able to make it for 7 months without seeing them and I didn't have a problem. Two hours into their visit, I wanted them to go home. Four hours into their visit, they'd already had a fight with DH and griped about everything we'd done with the house. Ten days later I didn't care what they did as long as they were out of my house. I am NOT subjecting myself to this again.
BITE ME!!!!
I don't want these people in my house at Thanksgiving. I want two days off in peace. I don't want to go back to work more uptight than I was before vacation. And I don't want to spend Christmas with them, either. DH doesn't have enough vacation to make it worth it. And he's taking 2 of his 4 days of vacation for the year to go to a Men's Retreat in Michigan. We can't just up and go to LA, so he can spend 2 days traveling and one day there. Get a grip, people. And just because they want to see us, doesn't mean that we want to see them. We have other family. We have MY family, who they happen to forget that we didn't get to see on our last trip to LA. DH also didn't get to take Jonathan to see my mom while they were there in April, either. Because FIL had him working his
off the entire time.This isn't fair. It isn't fair to US. We can't do anything without them thinking that they need to be a part of it. We also have rules that Jonathan has to abide by. When they're here, they go out the window. DH has a job. He needs to sleep during the day so he can work at night. He doesn't need to be kept up just so they can be entertained. It isn't fair to ME. I'm the one that's had to put up with all their crap and entertain them when DH isn't here. I'm the one that has to live with DH after they get him all ticked off and then leave. I'm the one that has to pick up the pieces when Jonathan starts screaming when he realizes that they're gone. I mean, can I just for once since we got married, have some peace during ONE holiday????
Anyone got chocolate??????????????
Sounds good!
