FFS, there is no end.
FDH just asked me if I got SD22 anything for her shower (that is ridiculous to be having in the first place). I told him I'm going to order something when I have the money and asked why he's asking. Because she's been bugging HIM about going! What. The. FUCK???? Since when do men go to baby showers? Oh yeah. Since SD and her DH can't do anyfuckingthing without each other. I just told her the other day that I would probably not make it due to FDHf working 10 hours on weekends. Her Royal Celebration is from 5-8. He leaves here shortly after 8. He needs to sleep sometime. It pisses me off that I JUST fucking told her this, and now she's blowing his phone up about going. She is fucking relentless. You do NOT beg, demand, guilt trip, or anything else to get people to show up to your goings on. You extend an invitation, and leave it at that. You thank the people who show up with a THANK YOU CARD. The ones that don't show up, you assume they had other things going on, and you let it go. You don't demand explanations. I cannot believe the gall that child has. And I don't give 2 flying fucks in a hurricane if she's 22, married and going on 2 kids. She IS a child. As is her husband. FDH was clearly annoyed that she's hounding him about this. I don't hound her about the boys bdays, or DD's graduation, or DS6's games or recitals, or anything else. Who the fuck does she think she is, anyway?
This just makes me want to NOT order anything for her.
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I was invited, but told her
I was invited, but told her that I wouldn't be able to go because he works so much on the weekends, and also because I don't have a babysitter and I am NOT talking my boys to something like that because they won't sit still and be quiet and I would spend the whole time chasing them around. Apparently me not going because FDH works all the time means that FDH should be able to go instead. :?
This would irritate me so
This would irritate me so much. I'm sorry you have to deal with such an entitled SD.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I'm not against more than one
I'm not against more than one shower if your kids are many years apart (my personal opinion is 5 or more years) or if you get pregnant with multiples, or some kind of exceptional circumstances. BUT, to have one just 2 years after your first shower is f'g ridiculous to me. If they couldn't afford basics like clothes and diapers for this kid, they probably shouldn't have DELIBERATELY got pregnant for the 2nd time. Both kids were planned. Apparently not very well.
The best second kid shower I
The best second kid shower I ever saw was a hand me downs shower. My friend and her husband bought a house between kids, and she had asked for small things only for her first because she lived in a tiny apartment.
She only invited other moms and it was very low key. I thought it was a lovely idea.
Your SD is entitlement central! Very tacky.
Haha! I love it!
Haha! I love it!
Go back to my early blogs for
Go back to my early blogs for the bridal shower story
I'm still mad about that one and it's been almost two years
"Not looking forward to
"Not looking forward to Christmas"
I just read that blog. Damn.
I just read that blog. Damn. It sounds exactly like something I could have written! I don't understand how these girls are all the same. I guess that's what brings us to this site, huh? There have to be some decent skids in the world, but their sparents wouldn't be driven to come here. I'm not looking forward to Christmas this year, either. She will either be hugely pregnant and ready to pop, which will mean that the whole weekend at MIL's, she will make everything about her and her belly and her pregnancy and just all ME ME ME, or she will have a very newly born newborn and everything will be expected to be about her baby, not the family as a whole. Can't. Fucking. Wait.
Why doesn't HE buy her
Why doesn't HE buy her something? So many of these guys delegate fatherhood to someone else.
We think alike. That is
We think alike. That is exactly what she's getting from me, and I'm ordering a long sleeve onesie that says "Autism Awareness" because DS6 is HFASD. I'm only doing it because the proceeds go to a good cause.
Showers in my family and
Showers in my family and among out friends are always coed. Actually they are more like parties (tons of food and music) than your typical shower. I have three friends who met their husbands at baby showers.
My ex-sister in law was given
My ex-sister in law was given a "diaper" shower for her second child, who was close in age and same sex as her first. People gave diapers, wipes, ointment, etc...