I've found it extremely comfortable myself some nights...Tip with that dog bed. My 16 month old baby likes the dog bed more than the dogs do. So there's that.
I've found it extremely comfortable myself some nights...Tip with that dog bed. My 16 month old baby likes the dog bed more than the dogs do. So there's that.
Same spot. No one in my family has spent time with my sister in over 5 years. And while most would consider that sad, its great. Don't have to walk on egg shells for an ungrateful narcissist.
I'm 27 and single. My grandparents always ask me when they are going to get grandchildren. Then they ask why I didn't bring a girl with me.
Or if you want to freak them out:After about the 3rd one of those type comments I'd be prepared with a, "I was going to bring her but then I realized she might meet you here."
With @Angie letting the inmates run the Friday OT asylum, here's one that I've been stewing over lately. It's Christmas time, and we all know what that means - quality time with family. Be it your own or your in-laws. Spending all this time together with no real means of escape inevitably means there will be some friction with some folks.
For example, my mother-in-law comes to visit us for the whole month of December. While it's nice that she's around the house to watch the kiddo (gives us opportunities for date nights) and make dinner, there are a few things she does that really drives me up the wall. One thing in particular is with dinner - we always eat at 6, which is when my wife gets home from work. I'll walk in the house at 4:30 (I get to work at 7, leave at 4) and dinner will have been completely made and cooling on the counter, meaning we have to nuke it before eating. It's like having leftovers on purpose.
What really gets you riled up around this time of year?
Just tell em, "You know, we could use some tips." Then lift her up on the dining table and get to work. See if they can help you with your backstroke and rhythm.
My wife's extended family does a White Elephant gift exchange, passing around some of the weirdest crap we can find. That's actually pretty fun.
I've thought about this type of response in the past. Imply that we are copulating in ways that ermmmmmm......do not result in the possibility of conception, or just flat out say I'll let you know when I let your son start banging me bareback.
For the most part we get a long with everyone so it is not that big of deal. Last year was kind of rough with my in-laws as they got our son this slide with a cart to ride on that I specifically had shot down due to size and space. They still got it anyway and then said "I hope it's okay". No I ******* said No! They said we could just set up outside and leave it there. Oh so it can kill the grass and I constantly have to move it for that and when I have to mow? Instead it has spent 98% of the last year under the stairs. They do like to give experiences which we like. The downfall is it pretty much always involves them. No I don't want to go places with you.
My wife's extended family did that last year and it didn't go over well. The idea was you get some goofy/crazy Christmas socks and fill it with stuff. This lead to about half the people going through the Target dollar spot, a few people including my wife putting some thought and effort into it and then me just putting those little shot containers in mine. This year is back to drawing names.
the whole month????!!
Holidays have always been weird for me because my dad was very anti-joyful around them. So growing up always felt like walking on eggshells around Christmas. His family was a bunch of ******** which contributed to that. So stuff on my side now tends to pretty low-key and just a few, select people in attendance. Which is fine by me.
My husband's side tends to be more....you still do stuff with family even if they have been terrible to you. Tradition is tradition. So, more events, more people, lots of gift-giving and just.....different for me. We finally got the adult sibling gifts stopped a few years ago after it became a game of here's my list, get something from it and we'll exchange it. I was finally like how about we just give for the kids. We're all well-off adults and it's always a PITA trying to get ideas out of people. That was a win and makes it so much easier.
MIL doesn't get how my side can have people we don't have a relationship with anymore so I'll usually get a few comments about "what is X person doing these days" to try and poke the bear, so to speak. That gets annoying. And the giving of gifts that they want to give us and not what we asked for. We really enjoyed a couple years ago after being told not to get us a specific household item, they got it anyway, could tell we were less than thrilled and then - no joke - for the next three months, every phone call they asked if we'd used it yet and kept repeating how much they liked theirs and we'd like it too if we just tried it.
The hints about when we are going to have kids have become less subtle over the years as well.
Does she live far away and barely sees you or??The. Whole. *******. Month.
2 years ago, she stayed 2 months. Had to have a difficult conversation with the wife about that.
For the most part we get a long with everyone so it is not that big of deal. Last year was kind of rough with my in-laws as they got our son this slide with a cart to ride on that I specifically had shot down due to size and space. They still got it anyway and then said "I hope it's okay". No I ******* said No! They said we could just set up outside and leave it there. Oh so it can kill the grass and I constantly have to move it for that and when I have to mow? Instead it has spent 98% of the last year under the stairs. They do like to give experiences which we like. The downfall is it pretty much always involves them. No I don't want to go places with you.
My wife's extended family did that last year and it didn't go over well. The idea was you get some goofy/crazy Christmas socks and fill it with stuff. This lead to about half the people going through the Target dollar spot, a few people including my wife putting some thought and effort into it and then me just putting those little shot containers in mine. This year is back to drawing names.
Does she live far away and barely sees you or??
God bless you. I stress out when my MIL stays for a weekend. You're on a whooooole 'nother levelYes, she lives in Canada. We typically visit for a week in July, she comes down for the whole month of December.
It's better now that we've moved into a larger house with more options for me to escape. Plus we've got the beer fridge in the garage, so I will sit out there and "work on some projects" in the evenings.
God bless you. I stress out when my MIL stays for a weekend. You're on a whooooole 'nother level
God bless you. I stress out when my MIL stays for a weekend. You're on a whooooole 'nother level
My wife's uncle is like that. At the wedding reception, he said something like "It's not for fun now, it's a job. Need to get started!" When we saw him at my niece's wedding (we now have a 3 year old), he told us "The little guy needs a buddy. No time like tonight to get started on it!"