AW/Vent/Rant all on one

[MrsAxilla]

AW - my kiddo is five today!!

Rant - why the fuck are all the toys cheap shit from China?? My kiddo painstakingly wrote out a birthday list (AW) so we got him five things he requested. THREE of the motherfucking toys were defective out of the box! You should have seen the look on Ben's face when his nerf gun didn't fire at daddy. He said it was his worst birthday ever, which made me want to cry. Maybe I'm a bad parent who raised a kid who wants cheap crap from China, but seriously, 3 out of 5 are broken?? Not cool, China!

Vent - my MIL is here for the kiddo's birthday and I'm ready to straight up strangle her. I'm his mother, bitch! Of course, after three months off work I'm called in today, so I had to leave him with her all day. Ok, fine. But don't you think I had something planned for when I got home?? She's all, "I baked Ben a cake and he wore the awesome birthday boy crown I bought him all day and we're going here for dinner because I asked him and that's where he wants to go. Oh, and I organized a scavenger hunt for his presents while you were at work and we had the BEST TIME EVER!! Plus, I bought him a BIKE and taught him to ride it!! How was work, dear?" Fucking bitch. Did I mention the gifts we bought were DUDS?

I hope he doesn't really think it was his worst birthday ever. I hope to redeem myself at his party on Saturday. I'm drowning my sorrows at being such a shitty mommy.

:::sad face::: /vent

[ttt]

I'm so sorry You're not a bad mommy at all (but you know that!) - I hope the party on Saturday is as awesome as your day was crappy.

[MrsAxilla]

Thanks. Any other day of the year I'm happy to pawn Ben off on his grandparents. But he was SO EXCITED to turn five and nothing worked out the way I wanted at all. Lots of kids remember their 5th b-days and I wanted him to have happy memories of mommy and daddy. Instead, Grammy took over. Blech!