..for a newborn? DS2 was born on the 29th Sept. My FIL was informed (he is divorced from my MIL and remarried with a daughter) and said he would come up to visit that weekend. He cancelled saying he had a cold and would come up after. ANYWAY, he turns up last weekend (with xmas presents so that he could conveniently drop them off too) and hands me a second hand adidas tracksuit out of the chrity shop his wife volunteers in. They are not poor (his daughter was at private school and they have several holidays a year).
The tracksuit was totally chavtastic and they didn't even send a card. (WE are elderly alternative types so more inclined towards black babygros etc - which they should know). His wife (whom my husband has known as family since he was 11) didn't come as she was 'tidying the house'. DH is very pissed off. I am too. He has a crap relationship with his dad anyway and I think he is coming close to the end of the line. His father seems to constantly dismiss his feelings and belittle him at every turn (including a quite negative speech about DH at our wedding). AIBU to think that he is no kind of grandfather at all? BTW we only see them 1/2 times a year and no phone calls in between. Our older son doesn't really know who they are and they have only met DH's half sister once.