wannaBeOnTopOfTheChristmasTree ·
13/12/2006 15:28
since ds' birth 4 years ago, my mum has made it fairly obvious that she's really only interested in seeing him, i.e. turning up to see him 5 mins before his nap, and letting herself out the door as I'm on my way up the stairs with him, ringing to ask "how's my baby", never coming round until he had finished napping (when a baby) and so the list goes on. But she was a bit put out when they came to visit out of nowhere recently and I asked if something was up because she only ever comes to see ds.
So we've been invited round their house for boxing day. Haven't decided yet whether we're going as dh has to work the next day (getting up at 5:30) and he wants to spend some time at home with just us (he's going to visit his nan in a home on the Saturday, then round my mum's on Christmas eve, parents coming over for Christmas day). So I said that I'd tell her iminently what we'd planned to which she replied, "oh it doesn't really matter, if you don't want to come, just send ds, as long as I get to see him that's all that matters". She's deadly serious about it.
so, anyone else have parents who are like this? and if so how obvious do they make it?