Mom rants

[welder'swife]

I'm am very annoyed at my MIL. Normally, I love her to bits, but lately, she's been getting on my nerves about having more kids. UM NO.

My SIL is pregnant with her third. Good for her. I do not want another. Seeing as how I tried to kill myself when L was 9 months, I think it's safe to say that I'm probably not fit to parent more than one.

Her argument (yes, she argues with me about having another kid) is that L will be a spoiled brat being an only child.



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[redheadbaker]

May 18, 2012 19:12:34 GMT -5 welder'swife said:

My SIL is pregnant with her third. Good for her. I do not want another. Seeing as how I tried to kill myself when L was 9 months, I think it's safe to say that I'm probably not fit to parent more than one.

I didn't know that -- I'm very sorry you went through such a rough time.

D's mom . . . she's a sweet lady. Really she is. But she annoys the hell out of me. I don't even know where to start.

1) She smokes. She just finished chemo for colon cancer. Still smokes. She seems to be the last person still in denial about the effects of smoking. She came out and said that she smoked throughout all three pregnancies and her kids' whole lives and they're fine! (yeah, D has asthma and allergies and was hospitalized half a dozen times during his childhood and the adult years he lived with his mom, but not once since he moved out).

2) She buys her dogs from BYBs, because you can't trust shelter dogs. They took in a dog off the street when D was little. She left them alone together and the dog bit D (he was too young to remember this - he assumes he provoked the dog) and they dropped it off at a shelter.

3) She doesn't train her dogs. We refuse to go back to his mom's house until she neuters her Great Dane. It's rather awkward when a dog that weighs more than you do tries to hump you. She also got a citation for excessive barking and was talking about how it was bullshit, her dogs don't bark. Meanwhile, we were there for three hours last time and she had the dogs out back (barking non stop) for at least thirty minutes.

4) Her husband is a know-it-all ass. He attempts to train the dogs with Millan-esque techniques, and claims the dogs misbehave because they're stubborn or alphas, not because he has no idea what he's doing. He tried to pseudo-alpha-roll Carl the first time he met him and I almost decked him. And he's loud. And smokes more than D's mom does, despite having had a heart attack 2 years ago.

5) D's sister has four kids (and is pregnant again, but that is a whole dramatic novel unto itself). She doesn't "believe" in vaccinating. D's mom (who, when undergoing chemo, was just as at-risk from unvaccinated kids as Liam) keeps trying to guilt us into letting his sister and kids visit, "He's their only cousin!" "When are they going to meet him?" "I sent Sister's kids a few photos of the baby because, you know, they haven't met him yet." despite the fact that there was a whooping cough outbreak IN THEIR SCHOOL.

Felt kinda good to get that all out.

[wagmore]

My mother is DRAMA to the bazillion degree. Like an eight grader.
I am sick of her shit and am ready to move back to the ranch even though I have only been here for a few weeks. But, I love her and just wish it would all go away.

[mainerocks]

Oh god, if I got started on a MIL rant you would never stop me. She was a legend on my Knot days... at least she's been less drama with baby than with wedding!