DH wants me to Babysit...on MY VACATION!!!!!!!!!!
So, I saved up almost 2 weeks of vacay time at work so that I could take it easy around the holidays....chill, shop, visit.
DH calls me at work and says "Oh yeah, I was thinking, since you're off anyway, we don't need to send the kids to daycare when they come down."
BIG mistake, DH. "I have plans, I will not change them, I did not sacrifice all year just to babysit the skids for 2 weeks. You and baby mama better figurte this one out, Bud. Oh, I know. Call MIL...she'll be happy to save the day!"
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OHHHHHHHHHHH I would be
OHHHHHHHHHHH I would be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO mad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's one thing to ASK if that'd be an option...a whole other thing for DH to assume you would be okay with his "logical" decision.
This reminds me oh-so-well of my first months living with DF -- BM made 20 excuses not to meet me and to try to say that I "might" not be good with kids (forget the fact that I'm a teacher), and then the next week wanted me to be her daycare because I was on summer vacation (of course, because I am a teacher).
But it's ONE thing coming from dumba** BM and another coming from DH!
Um... hell no!! I did that
Um... hell no!! I did that for DH once the first year we were dating... I was off for spring break and he wanted to do an overhaul on his apartment house so he could get it rented.. well of course BM needed a baby sitter since there was no school and guess who got stuck at home all week with skids?? DH was very greatful and asked every day if it was ok, but I would NEVER do that again and he knows it.
Thank God my DH is pretty good when it comes to that and does not use me for a babysitter for more than an hour or so every once in a great while. Sorry but wedding ring or not, Skids are NOT my responsibility, he and BM chose to have them, so they can figure out what to do with them.
LOL…I wonder if this is a man
LOL…I wonder if this is a man vs. woman thing. My DH used to always offer to watch after my kids if I got in a pinch. I NEVER took him up on it because then I knew he would think I would need to watch SS if he got in a pinch. OH HELL NO!
What did your DH say once you stop laughing long enough to tell him heck no?
There was actually no
There was actually no laughing at that point. He felt the ice coming off the phone and said "oh, well I guess we can talk about it at home later."
P.S. Even if he'd asked instead of assuming, I'd still have been livid! Almost a whole year with no vacation, it finally rolls around and I'm supposed to BABYSIT the SKIDS????!?!?!????!
On what planet........?
I have never had a problem
I have never had a problem watching SS if my wife could not do it. I have been his full time dad since he was 1yo. For us this is no big deal.
However, since he is now 18 and out of HS it has been a HUGE PITA to get him to meetings with recruiters, Commander’s Call, tests, interviews, etc...... One or the other of us has to take time off of work to schlep him around.
It looks like WE will have the gift of a car for him in the future. This will be more of a gift for his mom and I than for him just as his cell phone was really a gift to us rather to him. We got sick of waiting outside of band practice, dances, games, etc.... for him to come out so we got him a phone so he could call us when he was ready to go. That way he was the one waiting on us rather than the other way around.
SSsssshhhhhhh! Don't tell him that the cool gifts we have given him are really more gifts of convenience for us rather than for him.
yes, NEVER do it. 1. you
yes, NEVER do it. 1. you won't get credit for it anyway, 2. they'll ruin your vacation, 3. its not your damn problem!!!
The assumption would bother
The assumption would bother me a lot more than being asked to watch them. Why would I take two weeks off from my actual job and then spend my time doing that? Ummm, let me think. I WOULDN'T!
You know, of course, you set a dangerous presedence if you do it. Just sayin.