To not keep my kids up for The FaceTime

[jamoncrumpets]

With in laws, that is. They don't love their grandchildren enough to come down and spend Christmas with them, ever, but have been telling us all week how much they are looking forward to 'The Facetime' in Christmas Day.

Well, as I predicted, they have all been getting pissed and forgotten The FaceTime. So I have been getting the (small) DCs ready for bed, as they've been up since the wee hours.

I KNOW, from previous form, that The FaceTime will happen just as I am giving them a bottle or tucking them in, and that they will be very DISAPPOINTED (extra stress on this word) not to be able to see the DCs on Christmas Day.

But who FaceTimes an 18mth old at bedtime?

AIBU to put my knackered kids to bed?

Not at all crack on with bedtime they should have called hours ago

YANBU - put your DC to bed and the GPs can just wait until it’s an appropriate time for you all.

Merry Christmas!

put them to bed. They have had all day.

YANBU - put your children first and do what's right for them. Can you ignore the call anyway if / when it's made?

Put them to bed. They should have been more considerate and called earlier.

Do they call it The FaceTime?

I was out with a ‘friend’ the other evening who insisted on calling a local restaurant The Muse. Instead of Muse.

Gave me the rage.

Your in laws are clueless.

Put kids to bed if they call and are upset you could always FaceTime them early tomorrow morning

Could you have called them?

Can you not FaceTime them now?

I’d message now and say the kids are going to bed in 10 mins so call now otherwise The Facetime will need to wait until Boxing Day

Can you not be proactive with when you face time?

We FT my brother, and the in-laws, and we instigate it, in the morning.

Then if they don't want to answer, there's no reason for them to be disappointed.

why didn't you call earlier to suggest facetiming at x time?

Sorry, I tried to post earlier, I suggested The FaceTime take place earlier in the day and was just roundly ignored. They have been faaaar too busy drinking gin.

Just put them to bed then, no question.

Put your device on plane mode, kids to bed and speak to your inlaws at your convenience.
Nothing worse than relatives declaring their luuurve to kids then not half arsed to remember them.
Put your feet up (preferably with a glass of something nice)and forget them.

Put your phone on do not disturb, you won’t get the notification that they’re calling but can still use your phone as normal!

Have you got any photos around the house of the dc? Answer the phone if they do ring and show them the pictures. Say they have had at least 12 hours to see the real live versions...

Don't answer their call. If they are that pissed, they won't care.

They called while DC1 was having a bottle before bed and DC2 was in the middle of a particularly prolific shit on the loo. So that was nice. They couldn't understand why both DCs were so 'grumpy'.

I swear the gin they drink makes them stupid. I'm certain there must be loads of middle class middle aged people all over the country getting senseless on gin way more than is good for them.

Ha MIL called today and DS1 was having one of his 45 minute poops. She was genuinely upset that he wouldn't leave the bathroom to have a chat to her.

Families are crackers.