So my niece's mom lives in poverty. She is the recipient of many services (thank goodness, they help keep my niece health and under a roof) and makes minimum wage. Niece's dad (my relative) pays child support and my family buys many of my niece's needs like school clothes, activity fees, etc. Which we don't mind one bit. HOWEVER niece's mom is always all over Facebook talking about how she doesn't have any money and can't afford xyz for niece. So a bunch of people poor poodle her and give her all of this praise for being such an independent mom raisin her daughter all on her own. Ummm no, she's not. A few days later she's getting a new tattoo or going to get her hair dyed or whatever.
Meanwhile she's out play softball several nights a week and drags my niece who is six to the ball field with her. Where niece is unsupervised for about three hours and doesn't get home until 9pm on a school night. Everyone in my family has offered to watch her while the mom plays as her dad can't because he works nights. She never takes us up on it.
This year she decided not to throw a birthday party for my niece (like not even a cake) because she didn't have the money. Family offered money, she said she'd get something together and never did. So my niece didn't have a birthday party. I mean I don't think she needs like a pinterest perfect party with a bounce house or anything, but just some balloons and a cake.
So basically her mom is in total bitch eating crackers mode with me. Then she adopted a fucking dog. Now I'm all for dog adoption, but if you can't afford a cake for your kid's birthday, probably feeding a 100 pound dog isn't a good idea. And now the dog is sick. And she can't take it to the vet because she doesn't have the money and is complaining all over Facebook. And she can't get a payment plan or credit because of course she has bad credit. So now I'm worried about her dog.
WTF??? This all so isn't fair! I really really am so annoyed by her awful choices.