Hi I know this is probably nothing major in the grand scheme of things but still, I'm absolutely livid with my SiL. To be fair I'm not that keen on her, nor have I ever been, but I put up with her because our kids get along really well.
So anyway on a Tuesday after school my 9 year old son goes to a football academy training session thing at a sports centre in the next town. A year ago my nephew joined aswell, and as I was already going I was hair assumed to drive my newphew there every week too, which was no problem. Well the other day when we was all at at SiL's house my newphew told my son that he hated the football at the leisure centre and isn't going there anymore, my SiL was well within earshot and she just nodded to confirm this. So tonight I take my son to football as usual and half way through I get an abrupt text asking me were I am and why I havent come to pick my nephew up!
I told her that i didn't think he was coming anymore as that's what he said the other day and that she agreed. Well next thing she starts having a go saying she never agreed and that she relies on this football club (practically babysitting her son) why she goes to work ( she only work 3 hours a week over two days) and that she can't understand why I wouldn't text her to check whether my nephew was going.
Well OMG why the hell should i have to text her and mither her to see what HER son is doing, surely if he had changed his mind or something SHE should have text me! Like I said i know it probably sounds like a silly thing to get het up about but I'm sick to death of how much she relies on other people and when you don't go along with the usual plans for whatever reason she's not happy!
She is a single parent with five children, she has only just started to work after 18 years of sitting on her arse doing nothing. All these years she hasn't worked she has relied heavily upon my husbands mum and dad and now she's come to rely on myself and my husband too and I'm sick of it. She drives but claims she can't afford a car (total crap!) but because me and dh have one each (have to because of work) she just expects that we can fit all her kids in when we go places, and considering I've got my own three children including a daughter who is autistic I really don't want my car full of other people's screaming kids all the time.
She relies heavily upon my in laws and despite only doing a cleaning job for 3 hours a week she has my MiL coming round of a morning getting her youngest four up for school, getting them ready etc and then drops them at two separate schools/nurseries whilst she lies in bed. She is constantly asking my Dh for favours and to help her round the house, for instance this month he has but up two king sized beds for her, built a playhouse for her youngest, built up a set of drawers and a toy box and has even asked him to take her shopping twice a week when he's on his late shift so he can take her of a morning to which my Dh has had to say no.
I know most of this isn't relevant to us having words today but it's just the type of person she is, expects too much of people and thinks people can second guess what her kids are doing. Oh and then she lied through her arse and said my nephew was sat there crying cos I hadn't picked him up but I've just spoke to him on Facebook (yes he's even allowed on Facebook!) and he said he's glad I didn't pick him up as he really doesn't like it and didn't want to go and that his mum only wanted him to go so that she could go to the pub with her friend. Which kind of makes sense as that's just the type of person she is, putting herself first before her kids.