To be annoyed re skyping.

[goodiegoodieyumyum]

It was MIL's birthday on Wednesday, they live in a different country, my husband who is away asked me to skype to wish them happy birthday, tried but they did not answer, spoke to husband apparently they had a house full of guests so could they skype the next night between 7 and 8.

My daughter normally goes to bed at 7.30 so I let her stay up, now they got to there summer house later than they thought, I find this out at 8.00pm when I call them to ask if they are still going to Skype as I want to put dd4 to bed she has school tomorrow. I know they were driving but a bit annoyed that they didn't call to say the couldn't skype.

We agreed they would skype today, they have been on line all day today and I have tried several times to skype them, they still have not skyped and I have put dd and ds to bed.

I really like parents inlaw, and the main reason I am annoyed is that dd was very excited and wanted to see her Grandparents and wish her Grandma happy birthday instead she has waited up for no reason.

If they want to wait to their son is back tomorrow why not just say that.

Err Miscommunication and I am sure your DD will survive!

I don't know how we will skype tomorrow tonight can be miscommunicated, I love skype it's great we can stay in touch with family and actually see them ( my family is Autralia), but sometimes find it frustrating in that we don't seem to have proper conversations, like we would if we were on the phone or in person.

Call them and leave a message on the telephone asking them to arrange a definate time :) I hope it works out and sorry you feel :( It'll pass.

ring them on the phone then.. .. you dont HAVE to skype..

I will till husband is home and he cans text them, so much easier with my family if we see each other on line we try to ring, if they answer they answer if they don't they don't, if it's important I pick up the phone.

Just feeling crap the at the moment have a terrible sinus infection and everything seems twice as annoying when my head is stuffed up and my eyes hurt.

Sqeaky I did ring them yesterday, it is not for me but so they can see dd and ds and dd can sing happy birthday, she won't do so over the phone, doesn't even hold the phone correctly. Any way feel better now for getting it out of my system.

Looking forward to seeing husband in half an hour, especially as he has two large Toblerones from his Swiss colleagues.

Yes illness makes us like that! I had bad PMT last week

Do they make a habit of not talking to you on Skype?

Oh, skype drives me nuts for this reason. Is it possible they had problems with it? Or they thought you meant 7 their time and you thought 7 your time?

I think it it's a one-off I'd accept they don't see it as a fixed arrangement, more like 'we might be free at such-and-such a time'. My in-laws don't do fixed times, it's nothing personal, just the way their culture is. They wouldn't realize it might bother me. If I were really bothered I'd get DH to pin them down to a fixed time when he came back.

No Sole they normally talk to me, they are throwing a 40th birthday party in four weeks when we visit them, I wasn't expecting that so I think we get on Ok, I suppose I thought it would be 2 minutes of their time.

One thing I have realised lately we all have different expectations of how people should react which is why we get annoyed or certainly why I get annoyed. They come from a different country from me so maybe it is just a cultral thing.

YY, ask your DH, it could well be different expectations.

It is annoying, though, waiting around for stuff like that.

DH just just got home armed with chocolate five different types, plus one of my favourite perfumes, he also thinks it' annoying that they didn't skype when they said they would.

How wonderful of your DH :) I hope you have a lovely romantic evening together.