Totally expecting to get flamed for this...I know the last one is absolutely petty AF! Just wondering if I'm not alone.
As any grandparent should be...my MIL is absolutely besotted with my little girl. Which is fine...she's the first grand kid and it's expected. However, more and more things are starting to annoy me.
- Every time DD has a cold she'll reel off every one of my family members she believes was 'sniffly' and MUST have given it to her. 'Poor little lamb, she must get so smothered by all these strange people!' Note - my family is small and visit just as much as she does. They're not 'strange'
- despite us stating time and time again we do not want pictures of DD on social media...she still has her fb profile picture of her holding her up (like some weird prize ham I might add...not a nice photo at all...). She refuses to take it down as it's 'her right as grandmother to show off her granddaughter'
- after asking SIL to babysit for a day so I could do a KIT day at work....she rocked up instead. I had issue with this mainly because we have totally different parenting principals. Main one being her idea of parenting is sitting on the sofa with my 8 month old watching Netflix all day. She didn't change her nappy, take her out for a walk or play any games.
- this in the main one that grates me. And it's really quite pathetic I know. She always uses 'our' when referring to DD. For example....messaged th group whatsapp to let them know DD was crawling. Her response was 'oh our little shining star! Aren't we doing well with her?!' Like...what? Sorry. No. You visit her once a week. I'm 'doing well' here thank you!
Totally accepting that I may BU here. I just had to vent.