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I am v cross and don't know if I should be. Mother related!

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Mothersinarms · 24/12/2013 20:32

We live abroad and DH is four months into a long trip away with work for about nine months. He also recently met Gary Barlow (ITV viewers will get the hint). Grin
I have flown over with the four children to my mothers after some emotional blackmail and plenty of past history of her being a bit of a demanding pain in the bum.
I am now sitting here on my own on Christmas Eve because my granddad, who normally sleeps down here on Christmas Eve, isn't really well enough to come over and my mother "doesn't think he should wake up alone on Christmas morning" so she is sleeping at his house. They won't be back here until about 10.30am as Granddad is a "slow starter" in the mornings Confused
Am I being unseasonable to allow the kids to open all their presents at 7am and start drinking Buck's Fizz before they get back? It's obviously not fun for someone old to wake up alone on Christmas morning but it's also not much fun for me. Granddad is far from deaths' door and it's a bad back which means he can't come and sleep in my mother's unfeasibly soft beds.

OP posts:
AmberLeaf · 25/12/2013 09:38

I think I get it, you have gone over to your Mums for christmas so you won't have to wake up 'alone' [as in no other adult, what with your DH being away] and now you are waking up alone in the end?

I can see why you feel put out, but don't let it spoil your day.

Merry Christmas. Xmas Smile

MrsMook · 25/12/2013 09:43

The important bit is that the OP lives abroard, has flown home to her "demanding pain in the bum"DM who has then gone for much of the morning. I'm guessing that the OP's first choice of festivities would have been with DH from the information given, but the mother has guilted OP into coming.

I'd pace the presents. 10.30 is a long time to be on standby with early rising, over-hyped children.

Cantabile · 25/12/2013 14:28

DD used to play with her stocking stuff! Until dh was ready to let us open presents which could be as late as midday as he was a selfish arse. Once she was old enough to wait, he would be ready about 10. This morning it was 10.30 ish - she's 14 now though.

I think you were being ridiculous and finding problems where none existed.

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