will not be seeing dss for a month?
To set the scene.
DH and I live 1hr30mins drive from dss's mum.
We also live 2hours drive from dh's dps.
Dss's mum lives about 1hrs drive from dh's dps.
We have dss every other weekend and on the Sunday we generally take dss to see his gps and then drop him off at his mum's on our way home.
We had him the weekend before last and took him to see his gps. Last week (at dss's mum's request) we also had him Friday & Saturday. Plan was to take dss to see his gps on the Saturday, but at the last minute they cancelled on us, so we did other things. So we fully expected to take dss this weekend to see his gps. Not so. They have now told us he can't come up because they are having dh's db's 2 kids on the Saturday and having DSS on Sunday was too over taxing for us. Which means they will not see him for another two weeks.
This means that dss will be disappointed again (he adores seeing his gps).
What annoys me is
a)they are both retired so have lots of free time,
b)they see their 2 other grandkids twice a week as dbil lives down the road from them.
c) I resent the implication on dss's part that he is hard work and an incovenience, he is a lovely little boy, active but he is 6yo so of course he is active!
d) They were the ones complaining to us they don't see enough of him!!
Dh is especially annoyed as well. I know it is more my FIL thatn my MIL he is a PITA. Dss's mum cannot stand my FIL so will not take dss to see them - and frankly I don't blame her, after she has her own family that she'll want to visit on the weekends she's got him, plus she is under no obligation to get on with FIL (lucky her ).
Not a lot we can do, but just fancied a rant anyway!