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to be miffed at someone still not doing school runs 6 months after having baby no 4?

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billiebluemates · 27/05/2010 11:23

Have name changed as could be easily indentifed.

Background - friendly with woman who gave birth to child no 4 at beginning of December last year. Agreement had been in place since September that she would do morning school run and I would do evenings. I asked her when no 4 came along (after the baby was born) if it would be easier if I made arrangements for my own child to go with someone else in the mornings and had actually managed to find a place at a breakfast club. She was adamant that she didn't want that to happen and everything would be ok and was insistent that I cancel the breakfast club place. Another friend since then has been roped into doing the morning run since then. Which is fine and dandy but original woman has made no effort to do school run and expects other arrangements to be made when this woman can't do it. I can no longer do the mornings as I have to be at work. She lives near me and her kids are in my house all the time, they practically lived here last summer from morning til night with food thrown in. I dread every holiday as I know the children will want to come in and play (we have a trampoline etc). I feel horrible when I say no. She does as little as possible and plays the woe is me card all the time. I do lots for her and have the children when she needs to go out etc but I am starting to feel used and put upon.

As far as I am aware there is no pnd. She just wants everyone to do all the running around whilst she swans about shopping, going to the gym (has a creche) or visting her mother (a sprightly 50 year old).

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billiebluemates · 27/05/2010 12:19

I rather stupidly offered for them to go in my dh's car (if it was anyone else my dh would be delighted to take them but he can see how all this is effecting me and thinks it is getting out of hand as there are no return favours, plus she has her parents to help out whereas we have no-one) but I didn't know until this week that her husband is off.

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violetbat · 27/05/2010 12:21

She is a lazy mare and is taking the proverbial. Stop being involved with her. Put your dc into breakfast club.

motherlovebone · 27/05/2010 12:25

and put your children first.

they must be a bit miffed with these other children there all the time, i know mine would be.

UndomesticHousewife · 27/05/2010 12:25

Tell her change of plan, your dh has meeting or whatever and can't be late can she or her dh take them.

TrinityMeemaRhino · 27/05/2010 12:28

I have had bad depression for a long time
I still did t he school run the day after I had gecko and from then

admittidly I didnt do the school run for one week when the kids went back to school after neil died

zippy79 · 27/05/2010 12:32

YANBU- If the baby was born six months ago surely the family should be into some sort of routine with regards to getting ready in the mornings by now

UndomesticHousewife · 27/05/2010 12:34

Trinity if someone I knew was in your situation I would have done the school run for them for a very long time.
Well done for only a week off I'm sure it wasn't easy so this woman has absolutely no excuse she should be ashamed. If anything was to happen and she really needed help, she may just find no one there for her...

Flyonthewindscreen · 27/05/2010 12:43

Re the kids around your house all the time thing, just get into the habit of saying "No friends in the house today, I'm trying to get jobs done" or similar and definately send the kids home at meal times unless you had specifically invited them to lunch/tea. I am a very non confrontational person but can manage that ok. My kids and a neighbour's kids are often in each others gardens, etc at weekends but me and the neighbours are paranoid about our DC being "nuisances" and are always checking it is ok with each other. Some people however have the hides of rhinos!

billiebluemates · 27/05/2010 12:46

Oh Trin, your situation is so so different, I would have gladly done the school run for you and would happy to still be doing so.

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mumofthreesweeties · 27/05/2010 14:35

You could just be honest with her and say that you are no longer in a position to do the school run for her as your DC will be at the breakfast club and that similarly for after school she would have to make her own arrangements. She does seem to be user and I absolutely hate people who take others for granted.

Re the children coming over all the time, can you not have set days when friends can come over and also ensure that you tell the mum that they have to come home for tea as that time is time you want to have as a family only. Well that is what I would do anyway. I am pretty helpful etc but if I even get a whiff of someone taking the piss I just tell them. Good luck with it

googietheegg · 27/05/2010 15:15

Maybe put some more details so that if she's reading she gets the message that everyone thinks she's taking the royal piss

chesgirlNOTgriffins · 27/05/2010 15:35

Does her brass neck gleam in the late spring sunshine?

6 mths of having you run after her?

Cheeky mare.

I have four kids at home and its knackering but I knew that when I had one, two, three and four. By the time DC5 arrived it was hardly a suprise

DC4 and DC5 were both born in school holidays (christmas and easter). I was doing the school run by the time school started again a few days later. You have to get out of bed to get all the others sorted anyway, you might as well take them to school.

If she is getting her kids up and ready and the baby sorted so she can go to the gym why the hell isnt she taking her own kids to school?

porcamiseria · 27/05/2010 15:37

in the nicest way, grow some

send her kids back for meals, really, you are not there to feed them

enrol kid a breakfast club, just tell her.

and ask her when she can do rota again

deep breath and DO IT

this sounds like piss take, not PND to me

RunawayWife · 27/05/2010 15:43

She is taking the piss

ssd · 27/05/2010 15:49

op, you sound like a really nice person, but this "friend" is just taking the piss. she sounds very like a "friend" of mine who plays the oh poor me card all the time, too tired to do anything, has a youngish mother herself who runs after her and her kids all the time, doesn't work and has no intention to and expects the world to feel sorry for her.

best avoid people like her, they end up doing your head in and they don't even notice

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