This is why vacations stress me out so much (vent)

[whalewail]

We are going to visit dh's father, stepmother, sister and her two sons in Florida. I've been excited to go, though hanging out with that part of his family is usually kind of awkward.

His stepmother always gives me stupid pregnancy advice like, "Don't swivel your hips in a circle because it wil induce labor." "Women in third world countries work all through their pregnancy, pause for a minute to have the baby into a bucket, then keep working the fields. That's why you should have a home birth." She also told one of my other sisters-in-law who is expecting any day now that she shouldn't gain any weight during her pregnancy so that she wouldn't have to lose all that baby weight. I mean, these are serious WTF pieces of advice! She has never been pregnant and when she married my FIL his youngest was 7 or 8, so why does she think she has all this great advice for pregnant women?

Like I said, I'm excited to go but I don't want to sit through anymore bizarre pregnancy advice. His dad is ok but i always get the feeling that he really just wants to spend time with my dh... they sit and talk for  hours while I am either sitting alone with nothing to do or listening to bad pregnancy advice. It's the same thing with his grandfather.

On top of all this, I found out a couple of days ago that dh got the day we're leaving wrong. He told me it was the 18th for the past three months since we got the tickets. Turns out it's the 15th. Great. You know what the 15th is? Payday. You know how many of my pants fit me right now? Less and less. Also, the one maternity skirt I have left is still too big on me. So I am going to not have any clothes that fit me to bring because I just spent our last $30 on food to last through Friday. Not that $30 buys much in the clothes department anyway! We don't even have the money to go to the laundromat and wash the clothes we need to bring. If I have to bring bags of dirty laundry to Florida with me I am going to cry. I'm gearing up to cry just thinking about it.

So on Saturday there will be a mad dash to wash laundry, buy clothes, pack up, clean the house, get to the airport, and just do everything and I don't think I can handle it all. I know that dh is going to want to sleep in and do as little as possible and just in general be no help at all. Fortunately our plane leaves at 4:30 pm so there will be a little bit of time.

I've changed my mind. I'm not excited. I don't even want to go. I hate vacations. I wasn't feeling stressed about it until he told me that he got the days wrong.

[mimitothree]

Aug. 11, 2009 at 3:15 PM

Take a good book so when DH and his father are deep in discussion you will have something to do.  Try resale shops for maternity clothing.  I buy resale all the time.  Try to have a good time.  Ignore evil stepmother, ask her how she handled that situration when she was pregnant.  (evil laugh)  Clean house now.  You will only have a few things left on the day you leave.  Relax and try to enjoy.