Have just phoned my mother as she was threatening to visit this Sunday and said "are you coming to visit?" she said "if you want me to come?" I replied "it's up to you? (ie no I don't want you to come)" and she said "well yes we were planning to"
So now I have to put up with her and Step-dad for the afternoon. She hasn't seen the DDs in over 6 weeks as she is very lazy and will only come to visit if she is ferried in a car as she cannot do trains (she's only 52 and in good health although she dying every time you talk to her).
Both she and SD are very lazy the day will go like this they will come in say wow the DDs have grown, aren't they lovely?, don't they both look like DP, give them tat from the poundshop like cheap Barbies whose hair falls out and legs won't stay on (great for 13 mo DD2), or horrid clothes that really aren't my taste from some second hand shop. Then we will make them tea and SD will bore the pants off DP talking about TVs/PCs/sat nav or the latest gadget he has bought. SD rarely talks to me as I am female and therefore inferior and have no opinion on anything electrical as he is really sexist. My mother will then try to tell me how childrearing was when she did it blah blah blah. Then we will make them lunch and they will scruntise everything the DDs eat/don't eat as they are obsessed with children eating (have the opinion you have to stuff everything you can into them great when they were both BLW'd). We will make them more tea then they will go home before it gets dark. Plus my mother smokes and will moan about having to go outside for a smoke.
They don't want to do anything or go anywhere, they just want to sit on the sofa and watch the DDs play whilst we wait on them. I'm dreading it and so will DP.
I know I have to grin and bear it but argh!!!!!!!!!!