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Originally posted by KillarneyRose
No fair, Tiffany! You can't tease us like that. C'mon, if you tell I'll share my stories such as when I was pregnant and living with the inlaws for a few weeks while Mr. KR was starting a new job in another state. I was in my first trimester (remember how exhausting that is?) and she woke me up at 5:45 am on a saturday morning to tell me I had to run to the market to get orange juice for breakfast because I'd finished the jug the night before.
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Most of it was little stuff that finally added up.
Here's a few:
***On the way down to Florida, she got me in a conversation about m family. She proceeded to sweetly throw in jabs at each member she brought up. But, she did it in one of those ways that you really couldn't say anything about or she would have played innocent.
***Max had clothes that we had bought. But, she refused to put any of them on him. He had to wear the ones SHE bought because they were better.
***She took stuff out of the diaper bag I packed each day and put it in her diaper bag. Then, she would tell me there was no need to bring my bag.
***ANYTHING I told Max not to do she encouraged. Then, she'd talk about how cute he was doing those things and would make a point to show me.
***She told us we could have a day to ourselves and she'd watch Max. But, right before we were leaving for the beach she decided that she wanted time to herself and the nieces. This was literally as we were getting in the car.
***I wanted to go by my grandmother's house she had just sold on a nearby island. When we went by it, her and her mother made cracks about how spoiled I must be and no wonder I spend money like I do.
***I took them to another nearby island for sightseeing and shopping. When we got there they complained about having to drive so far from the house. (It was a 10 minute drive.) Then, they said they did not want to get out and be in such a ritzy area. She said she was refusing to even get out of the car. So, she made us all drive back to the house and play board games. (We only had her car, so we were at her mercy.)
***I wanted to take Max and Mr. Tippiechick to DisneyWorld. But, she refused to let us use the car to go because DW has an annual "GayDay" and she could not condone patronage of a pro-gay corporation.
***We went to a PRICEY, upscale restaurant for lunch. (Per her step-father's recommendation) As soon as she got there, she complained about the prices. Then, she rolled her eyes when I told Max to stop trying to pull the table cloth off of the table. She told me flat out that I was going to make him sick by giving him milk that was not watered down. She said she could not believe that I would do something that I knew would make Max sick. SHE PUT ON THE MASK THAT THEY GAVE IN MAX'S MEAL AND WORE IT ON HER FACE FOR ALMOST 10 MINUTES.
**She fussed at me for not letting the nieces watch Max while we played games. (They were in the same room, just a different area of it.) So, I finally gave in and let them watch him.
She and her mother had gotten upset because I had stopped the game previously to get something to drink. So, since the nieces were watching Max, I sat my plate with ketchup on the floor until the game stopped.
But, the brats decided to stop watching him without telling us. So he crawled into the ketchup and got it on him and the carpet. I fussed at them and asked them how they could do something as stupid as letting him crawl into ketchup while standing there laughing about it.
She told me it was my fault for not keeping an eye on him even though she had just fussed at me for not letting the girls watch him. She could not believe that I would blame the girls for the incident.
And the best for last...
***Her mother told everyone to make themselves at home. Whatever was needed, we were just to do or get ourselves. So, I did Max's laundry, because anyone who has kids knows they use at least 2-3 outfits per day. Her mother cornered me and told me that I was to immediately stop wasting her water and electricity. I was no longer to do the laundry, even though I had adjusted the loads to extra small.
*** Her mother then proceeded to make it known that she had told her family to make themselves at home. I was not her family. I was only a guest and should have acted accordingly.
Needless to say, my husband really got to see their true colors on this trip. I had bitten my tongue the whole time. But, finally we had both had it.