Mil is convinced that the world is going to end in 2011 (mostly thanks to her religion). So much so that she has offered to pay £3500.00 to send us me, dh and ds to Trinidad and Tobago for 2 weeks and Christmas (where dh is from).She lives in the US, so that would cost her $7000 with the exchange rate. We would never feel comfortable with her spending that much money on us for airfare regardless of if she could afford it our not.
THe fares go down to about £1000 for all 3 of us in January, but she isn't having it. She is insisting that we come for Christmas because "we only have until 2011 to spend all the money we've got!"
This isn't the first time she's used this reasoning, everytime she's come to visit it is because she wants to spend as much time as possible with her grandson before the world ends in 2011. Her words exactly, by the way.
As a mother of a young child and ttc dc#2, I find this incredibly upsetting that she is so convinced that we are all going to die in a few years and that her motivation for spending as much time as possible with us is because the end is near! Dh isn't bothered by it, but he grew up with her religous beliefs.
I get really upset when she starts talking like this, and although ds is too young to understand what she is talking about, within a few years he will. I don't want my son thinking that Nana buys him loads of toys whenever she visits only because we are going to only live for a few more years. She talks so openly about it that she is totally convinced that it will happen.
BTW, I don't believe any of this nonsense and I really don't want to hear anymore about it. Would I be out of line to stop asking her to prophesise the end of all of us when she is in my home?
No, this isn't a wind up, either!!