Text a phone from a computer. Lol lame I know but I just figured it out lol. It's not hard at all and I always wanted to know just never tried to figure it out. Now I know. It's sad that this is the most exciting thing that has happened to me all day lol.
Anything exciting happening your way?
Swimming was great! The water was almost too warm
Quoting mrscass0416:
Can't do what? And swimming sounds like fun!
Quoting OBImomma:
I can't do that.
We're swimming. It's about 100° out so we're hanging out at the pool
As always, it's more of a what didn't she do. She thinks she knows everything, she's so full of herself. She's constantly trying to take care of my son for me- not, like watch him so I can shower, but when I'm feeding him and she deems it "her time" she will take him from me while I'm burping him and- "Oh, Gramma can do that!" If I need to change him, "I'll change him if you want!" And when I respond, it's OK, I got it- "No, no, I can do that." She's a teacher's aide who works with special needs students (and doesn't always listen to their IEPs because she knows what works better...) and every day when she comes home from work, sits down in her chair and complains about how badly her knees and ankles hurt, then 10 mins later wants to walk around with my son, up and down stairs, out on the porch with the bees (or in the evening, the mosquitos). She constantly wants me to leave her alone with him- if I'm running out to the store- "If you have milk pumped you can leave him here, I'll watch him!!" (The first time this happened he was 5 days old and I just needed to go out for a little while because I felt so cooped up, she wanted me to pump right then so I could leave him), or the minute I sit down after letting her hold him (by which I mean, she takes him from me with her two year old grabby hands) she'll bring him outside to be alone and if I go out with them, she walks away, like seriously makes it a point to have him without me there. One time, I got out of the shower to find that she was going to take him up the street to her friend's house WITHOUT ASKING ME!!! Whenever she gets home from being out, she always calls upstairs- "Gabe can come down for Grandma time now!" as though it is an absolute given that every day she can spend however much time she wants with him.
Which I know most of this doesn't sound that bad in text. What makes it bad, is the voice/attitude she says it in, and the fact that if things don't go her way, she acts like a total bitch- for example, when my son was less than a week old, I asked her not to let the cat up in her lap when she's holding him. She did anyways. The next day she brought it up again (when my FIL wasn't in the room, but myself, my SO and my BIL were) and I was a lot more adamant in my telling her I didn't like that she let the cat in her lap "but I made her get down!... I'm not going to push her!... Don't threaten me!" her arguments got more and more ridiculous until she realized she wasn't going to win. Then when my FIL came back in the room, she got up all in a huff and left the house all pissed off (mind you, this is all over me telling her not to let the cat in her lap when she's holding my newborn). My FIL asked what happened, we tell him, he knows how she gets, so it's fine. She calls him, makes him leave the room so she can talk to him... He comes back in the room telling me I need to apologize, I say if I had something to apologize for I would, but I don't, and he starts trying to tell me how I can't threaten her, and she's not doing anything wrong- it sounded like we actually got into a fight, even my SO and BIL were confused at how far this had escalated... The next morning, she spoke with my SO before she went to work, and told him that if she doesn't get to hold my son as often as she wants, however she wants, for as long as she wants, then it was going to mean consequences for him, and she gave him a ridiculous list of things to do around the house for her.... All because I requested one thing.
I hate having my son around her, my mommy instincts scream when she comes near him. I hate the feeling like she has more authority than me over my son when she's around because she assumes she does- today she again took him from me because it was "her time" and then let my SO's cousin hold him. Which I don't mind that she held him, I minded that I wasn't right there to watch, because this particular person has been diagnosed with depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, tourette's, and possible arthritis. She isn't very aware of how much force she uses, nor how to act with a baby, so it makes me more comfortable to at least see her when she holds him, even if it's across the room... My MIL knows this, in fact made it a point when my son was first born to talk about it with me, and she blocked me from being able to say no, or at least observing because she was sitting in the way.
And yesterday, she had a fit when my SO was trying to cook our dinner. He put a pot of water on to make homemade mac and cheese (the second largest pot, which makes a cassorole dish worth of pasta, which in the past has fed the 4 of us for three days) and she said it wasn't big enough to make enough for everyone, to which he replied that it was, "NO! it isn't!" (I wish I could type in her tone..) So she makes him pull out the HUGE pot- which could probably cook... 6 or more boxes of spaghetti, it's that enormous. So he takes the pot that had already been on to boil for about 3 and a half minutes (so not even hot yet) and dumped it in the sink to use the other pot. So she gets really pissed, because he "wasted the water that he heated up the whole house with" and says "you aren't allowed to cook anymore, the kitchen is closed, find something to microwave." (Which, on a side note, she usually hates when stuff gets microwaved when something could be cooked instead). Then, to top it all off, she told my SO he needs to "man up and take care of [his] responsibilities and clean up after himself"... while he was throwing away her trash from breakfast...
OMG. I'm sorry this is so long, and if it were too long to read... I just can't stand how she acts, and I also have a tendency to write a lot whenever I start... Oops...
Quoting mrscass0416:
Oh wow LOL what did she do?
Quoting NowImAMom...:
Well, my MIL is cruising for a bruising, and it's kind of exciting, if I may take the liberty of using exciting towards something negative lol
Actually, I don't know how to do that...lol
My morning was exciting because I got to hear my baby's heart beat for the first time, but then an hour later I discovered my car battery had completely died.
Oh wow, she does sound like she should be hit. lol no offense. Why don't you all move out? I know people go through alot of things but I hope that you all get out of there SOON!
Quoting NowImAMom...:As always, it's more of a what didn't she do. She thinks she knows everything, she's so full of herself. She's constantly trying to take care of my son for me- not, like watch him so I can shower, but when I'm feeding him and she deems it "her time" she will take him from me while I'm burping him and- "Oh, Gramma can do that!" If I need to change him, "I'll change him if you want!" And when I respond, it's OK, I got it- "No, no, I can do that." She's a teacher's aide who works with special needs students (and doesn't always listen to their IEPs because she knows what works better...) and every day when she comes home from work, sits down in her chair and complains about how badly her knees and ankles hurt, then 10 mins later wants to walk around with my son, up and down stairs, out on the porch with the bees (or in the evening, the mosquitos). She constantly wants me to leave her alone with him- if I'm running out to the store- "If you have milk pumped you can leave him here, I'll watch him!!" (The first time this happened he was 5 days old and I just needed to go out for a little while because I felt so cooped up, she wanted me to pump right then so I could leave him), or the minute I sit down after letting her hold him (by which I mean, she takes him from me with her two year old grabby hands) she'll bring him outside to be alone and if I go out with them, she walks away, like seriously makes it a point to have him without me there. One time, I got out of the shower to find that she was going to take him up the street to her friend's house WITHOUT ASKING ME!!! Whenever she gets home from being out, she always calls upstairs- "Gabe can come down for Grandma time now!" as though it is an absolute given that every day she can spend however much time she wants with him.
Which I know most of this doesn't sound that bad in text. What makes it bad, is the voice/attitude she says it in, and the fact that if things don't go her way, she acts like a total bitch- for example, when my son was less than a week old, I asked her not to let the cat up in her lap when she's holding him. She did anyways. The next day she brought it up again (when my FIL wasn't in the room, but myself, my SO and my BIL were) and I was a lot more adamant in my telling her I didn't like that she let the cat in her lap "but I made her get down!... I'm not going to push her!... Don't threaten me!" her arguments got more and more ridiculous until she realized she wasn't going to win. Then when my FIL came back in the room, she got up all in a huff and left the house all pissed off (mind you, this is all over me telling her not to let the cat in her lap when she's holding my newborn). My FIL asked what happened, we tell him, he knows how she gets, so it's fine. She calls him, makes him leave the room so she can talk to him... He comes back in the room telling me I need to apologize, I say if I had something to apologize for I would, but I don't, and he starts trying to tell me how I can't threaten her, and she's not doing anything wrong- it sounded like we actually got into a fight, even my SO and BIL were confused at how far this had escalated... The next morning, she spoke with my SO before she went to work, and told him that if she doesn't get to hold my son as often as she wants, however she wants, for as long as she wants, then it was going to mean consequences for him, and she gave him a ridiculous list of things to do around the house for her.... All because I requested one thing.
I hate having my son around her, my mommy instincts scream when she comes near him. I hate the feeling like she has more authority than me over my son when she's around because she assumes she does- today she again took him from me because it was "her time" and then let my SO's cousin hold him. Which I don't mind that she held him, I minded that I wasn't right there to watch, because this particular person has been diagnosed with depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, tourette's, and possible arthritis. She isn't very aware of how much force she uses, nor how to act with a baby, so it makes me more comfortable to at least see her when she holds him, even if it's across the room... My MIL knows this, in fact made it a point when my son was first born to talk about it with me, and she blocked me from being able to say no, or at least observing because she was sitting in the way.
And yesterday, she had a fit when my SO was trying to cook our dinner. He put a pot of water on to make homemade mac and cheese (the second largest pot, which makes a cassorole dish worth of pasta, which in the past has fed the 4 of us for three days) and she said it wasn't big enough to make enough for everyone, to which he replied that it was, "NO! it isn't!" (I wish I could type in her tone..) So she makes him pull out the HUGE pot- which could probably cook... 6 or more boxes of spaghetti, it's that enormous. So he takes the pot that had already been on to boil for about 3 and a half minutes (so not even hot yet) and dumped it in the sink to use the other pot. So she gets really pissed, because he "wasted the water that he heated up the whole house with" and says "you aren't allowed to cook anymore, the kitchen is closed, find something to microwave." (Which, on a side note, she usually hates when stuff gets microwaved when something could be cooked instead). Then, to top it all off, she told my SO he needs to "man up and take care of [his] responsibilities and clean up after himself"... while he was throwing away her trash from breakfast...
OMG. I'm sorry this is so long, and if it were too long to read... I just can't stand how she acts, and I also have a tendency to write a lot whenever I start... Oops...
Quoting mrscass0416:
Oh wow LOL what did she do?
Quoting NowImAMom...:
Well, my MIL is cruising for a bruising, and it's kind of exciting, if I may take the liberty of using exciting towards something negative lol
oh yay!!
Quoting sissy852:
i got to hear my babys heart beat
Yayy!!! and that sucks lol
Quoting shoot4thestars:Actually, I don't know how to do that...lol
My morning was exciting because I got to hear my baby's heart beat for the first time, but then an hour later I discovered my car battery had completely died.
What's the dumbest thing you've seen or heard someone posted on Twitter or Facebook?
- mrscass0416
on Jun. 20, 2012 at 4:59 PM