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DM ruined boxing day/My Christmas with DS

60 replies

Hotchocolate18 · 26/12/2018 15:14

I'm a single parent so this year I've had my DS on boxing day so our "Christmas" spent with my parents at their house.
Earlier DM made a fry up. She's allergic to egg white but decided to do herself a fried egg with a runny yolk as a "treat". I said to her don't think that's a great idea. Her reply was well in ok with the yolk. Clearly the white ran into the yolk as now she has a chronic stomach ache that painkiller doesn't touch. So now she's laying on the sofa and my DF is watching football.
Feel like today and tonight will/Has been a let down. At least my son is having fun.
AIBU to be annoyed she done that even though she knew there was a high chance she would react to the egg.

OP posts:
HomeMadeMadness · 26/12/2018 15:17

I don't think you should worry too much. You say DS is having a nice time and that's the most important thing. If you want surely you can still do nice christmasy things with DF and DS even if DM is out of action?

Hotchocolate18 · 26/12/2018 15:21

Df is engrossed in football now. DM was suppose to be cooking roast dinner.

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Subtlecheese · 26/12/2018 15:23

So you or DF cook it or just raid the freezer and have pizza. It might be a new tradition. Roast dinner is not compulsory

cardibach · 26/12/2018 15:23

It’s annoying for sure. Cook yourself though if she can’t and make the best of it. People who eat stuff that will make them I’ll are very irritating.

cardibach · 26/12/2018 15:24

Also football Is only 90 mins.

Ragwort · 26/12/2018 15:27

Why don’t you cook the meal for your parents ? Hmm. Were you just expecting to be waited on?

Bombardier25966 · 26/12/2018 15:28

Football is on all day today!

Why aren't you cooking OP?

SleepingStandingUp · 26/12/2018 15:30

OP I'd be pissed off too if a grown adult deliberately ate something she knew she was allergic to and then spent what should be a special famy together lying around in pain.

How old is DS?

I'd pack mother off to bed toseep it off, cook you all a nice roast for evening meal and just enjoy playing with your son

JudasPrudy · 26/12/2018 15:32

So your mum isn't well and you're whinging about how she's not making your dinner and ruined your Christmas? Are you 10?

Hotchocolate18 · 26/12/2018 15:32

Because my DS keeps calling me to play. He also has allergies so they don't have much in the house he can eat. Would have brought something else if I knew this would happen

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Ragwort · 26/12/2018 15:35

Surely if your child has allergies you check before you arrive that there’s something suitable to eat? Confused. Just get on and cook the meal, if your DS is calling you to play just explain you are cooking the meal. You sound really childish as if you are sulking because your mother is unwell.

mcmooberry · 26/12/2018 15:41

Well I think it's annoying and inhospitable of your DM as your hostess and I don't blame you for being pissed off especially as it was totally avoidable.

Bringbackthestrioes · 26/12/2018 15:45

Fry up and roast dinner planned for the same day? Enough to give anyone stomachache Wink

Just shove the meat in the oven and have it with mash or jacket potato instead of full on roast. That won’t take long to do and you will still be able to play. Alternatively could you just go home and make something simple from your own supplies? I’m sure she didn’t give her self pain on purpose and the day is only ruined if you insist it is. I’m sure your DS doesn’t care about a roast dinner.

Missingstreetlife · 26/12/2018 15:45

Chronic means going on for a long time, arthritis is a chronic condition, it may be severe or mild. You dms pain is acute or severe, not chronic.

HomeMadeMadness · 26/12/2018 15:47

Can't really blame DM for DF watching the football - can't you just tell him to turn it off? Like PP I would just chuck the meat in at least and roast up some veg.

SilverySurfer · 26/12/2018 15:50

You're being a bit whiney OP. I presume (hope) you would have helped your DM with lunch so it can't be that much more effort to cook it yourself. I'm sure your DS can amuse himself in the meantime.

Mummyoflittledragon · 26/12/2018 15:54

Your ds is happy enough. It doesn’t sound as if you feel very welcomed and wanted to be looked after. Instead the tables are reversed. That’s life sometimes. You either cook or you go home.

I think it’s sad you don’t have a bit more empathy for your mum. It’s self inflicted, yes. But so are a lot of ailments. Would you be that upset with a type 2 diabetic, who isn’t managing their symptoms?

YoungLennyGodber · 26/12/2018 15:55

You sound like a child yourself. Your son is having fun, your Das is happy watching the football, help your Mum out and make everyone some dinner. She didn’t do it on purpose! I can’t see the issue here. Stop whining, it won’t help.

SleepingStandingUp · 26/12/2018 15:58

So your mum isn't well we'll DM has made herself unwell despite a conversation about it so my sympathy is lacking.

However OP what did your DM plan to feed DS? Cook that or go home and make him something else.

How was the rest of your day? When else do you have DS over Xmas?

I'd just do a restart if you want the full lunch, get a small chicken tomorrow, some veg and sauces etc, crackers in the sale, mince pies for Pud.

LoniceraJaponica · 26/12/2018 15:58

So, are you going to cook the dinner then?

Tilliiii · 26/12/2018 15:59

She was trying to have herself a treat. She said she was ok with the yolks. She didnt mean for it to run and obviously didnt realise. Now she is unwell. Just look after her and make the dinner. Your there at her house so I presume you have a good relationship with her. How nice for her if you just cook and tell her that its all ok and she just needs to get better. Shes probably feeling awful.

headinhands · 26/12/2018 15:59

Did she do Christmas dinner yesterday. Maybe it's the only way she feels she can get out of running about after everyone

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 26/12/2018 16:00

Good grief, there are some hard posters on MN this Christmas!
Almost every AIBU thread, someone comes on and blames the OP or questions why she isn't doing everything differently, rather than sympathising with the situation!!

OP - YANBU to be pissed off that your mother has basically chosen to make herself unwell. It's a fucking stupid thing for her to have done, especially since it's Boxing Day - was she trying to get out of cooking?
It's one thing to go to your parents and help out in the kitchen, it's another thing entirely to have to take on the whole meal because someone has deliberately made themselves unwell!

There's not much you can do about it now though except either cook it yourself or forage around for food that you can eat, and your DS can eat. And get your father off his arse to play with your DS so that you can cook, if he can't be arsed to help with the dinner!

Fuck "engrossed in the football" - his grandson is there, fucking play with him!

Singlenotsingle · 26/12/2018 16:02

Doesn't look like it Lonicera. The OP's gone off in a huff.

HashTagLil · 26/12/2018 16:05

Sounds like the OP is very similar to her DM.

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