rant against MIL - feel free to add your here!

[hockeymum]

I have a nearly 4 year old desperate to be in school and whining all day and a nearly 4 month old teething a whiny (poor boy) and am organising his dedication for 20 people this sunday so am so busy and getting up for night feeds and then up before 6am with nearly 4 year old shouting "gooooooood mooooorning!".

MIL phones while am frantically cooking and cleaning up a storm for sunday to ask "Is DH (her son) OK - he looks so tired the poor boy, you really should make sure he helps you out less with the children and rests more"

WHAT?!!!!!

does he do the night feeds? NO!!!!!!!!

does he have both children in the bathroom while he pees or showers - NO!!!!!!!!!

does he never get a lunchbreak? - NO!!!!!!!!

does he get so tired he goes to bed at 9pm - NO!!

Not at all annoyed with dh. he is lovely and very helpful but MIL - do you not think I might be tired?!!!

Feel free to add your rants - they make me feel better!

mine has invited herelf round on sat night for a piss up
not that i mind
as I will spike her drink again

re spike with jack daniels not drugs

hockeymum, just ignore her as they will always see their little boy as their own
and NO woman on earth can live up to a MIL expectations when it comes to sons
xxx

Obvious mistake here was answering the phone.

Went to a family wedding recently...

MIL -

Made it clear to me and everyone else that I wasnt welcome and made me sit on my own at the back during the service.

Wouldnt allow me in any of the photographs

At the reception made sure I had an entire table to myself

Told everyone who would listen how I couldnt keep my knickers on and that I was breaking her sons heart.

Told people I had lost weight because I was on drugs

Shes a lovely woman.....

My MIL is visiting this pm. She will turn up at least an hr late, sweep DD off into the garden (even if it's p'ing it down) as far away from me as possible. If I get close or DD needs me for anything she will then proceed to whisper very audibly "come and live with me and grandad, we'll have much more fun" "I miss you so much" in her ear.

Last time she was late (2 hrs) we were told it was because her car had overheated. She left a carrier bag here with some leaflets for a beauty salon and when I was thumbing through them the next day lo and behold a receipt fell out for a bloody facial at the exact time she was supposed to be here.

Every time I see her she says/does something that makes me seethe. Roll on 2 o clock.

hockeymum - my mil is exactly the same. She keeps telling me how stressed out her son is, but it is me that does ALL the:
Landry
Cooking
Cleaning
Washing-up
Doctors visits
Dentists
Vets
Shopping
Gardening
Playing
Nursing
Dog walking
Paying bills
Anything else that needs sorting out
Dp does nothing..and it is he that needs a rest.
On top of this I also am trying to do a Phd, and from September will be away 2 days a week so I can teach. In fact the more I think about it the more I think my dp is USELESS!!!!!

Tamba - really? Can't imagine there being such a horrible person. So on your behalf.

Come and share mine instead, she is lovely.

My mil came to stay for 3 weeks when my first child was born in order to cook dinners for dh when he came in from work. SHe didn't do anythign to help me out except hold the baby while I did the washing and hoovered (about all I could manage). If the baby cried in the night she'd (a) ask why the next morning and (b) say dh really needs his sleep. Needless to day when no 2 was born she came for a long w/end and wasn't made to feel very welcome.

Oh go on Qootie pie!

Make me feel better.

Mine has just phoned again - (really need to get caller id) and said she cant help make food for sunday as she is travelling all this way and needs time to get her hair done! Is it illegal to poison them? Just enough that they sleep for several hours and get taken home!

Good luck this afternoon amieami

mine quite often annoys me, i should add i don't dislike her but there are definitely days when i can't be arsed with her.

To top it off she retires soon and i'm dreading it as i'm a SAHM and like the routine i have with dd ie me and her and i don't want MIL round all the time

Thanks hockeymum. She's late! You would think that someone who tells all friends and family how little she gets to see her grandchild would at least get here on time.

Must be getting her back waxed today.

my mil has never had the children in 10yrs of their life, not babysat nothing, they are so rich they dont work now and have 7-8 hols a year, she brings ds's b/day presents on night of their b/day when they are in bed
my mum has them overnight about once every 6 wks
dh said to his mum you should take a leaf out of my mums book and she said my mum could keep the whole book
anyway 2 wks ago mil phoned to say could she have boys for 3 nights while she takes them on hoilday
when i picked myself up off the floor i said of course
so she took them away in a caravan the boys loved it, she said it would take a yr to get over it
anyway all the family came over from ireland this week just gone and all they talked about was how wonderful mil was for taking boys away and how grateful i should be to have a mil like her
think hoilday was a set up as irish lot last came over 8yrs ago and dont know how crap she really is
dh said to leave it and smile