Following SS13 little "adventure" last week, we all still went away for the weekend (I did tell DH to cancel but of course he wouldn't). We went to a seaside town about an hour from us.

Saturday is spent with SS continually whinging whilst DH does his best to entertain him -takes him swimming, paddle boarding and to the arcade. That evening there we have reservations at a nice seafood restaurant but before we go out for dinner we decide to have a drink in the hotel bar. SS first wanted to sit outside so fine we find a table outside with a nice view of the sea and DH gets everyone a drink. 10 minutes later SS is whinging he wants to now sit inside, DH goes for a walk with SS inside to see if there are any free tables, finds one and tells SS to sit down while he goes and calls MIL and I to come indoors.SS starts pouting that he doesn't like that table and then another family come along and ask if they can have the table, SS says yes then proceeds to sulk. He then sits on a sofa and DH comes back outside,

Interestingly at this point MIL asks what is going on with SS as he hasn't stopped whinging all day even though everyone went along with everything he wanted. So I told her EVERYTHING! About his adventure last week going against what DH had said, the problems at school, the continual calls DH has been getting from the school. Maybe it was the wine (I hadn't had a drink in a year so 1 glass and yes I was tipsy) but there was no holding back. MIL was completely gobsmacked and proceeded to tell DH if he has grounded SS why is he taking him for weekends away and giving him electronics (DH gave SS his old phone for the weekend to play games allegedly, imagine when it was discovered the very next day SS had been lying and had been on snapchat with all his friends *shock* *horror*)!

DH insisted that he knows what he is doing (clearly not!) and then proceeded to have an argument with me! Apparently because I believe he should be stricter on SS and hold him accountable for his actions when he misbehaves I have a "Mary Poppins view on child rearing because I have no bios and hopefully one day if we manage to have a child I will see it's not that easy". Well that just made me see red I don't believe a person needs to birth a child to have common sense and I told DH that. MIL was completely taken aback and told me later DH should have never said that to me and is completely out of order. I told MIL if her son carries on like this he will end up alone and her grandson will end up in trouble with the law.

The following day DH &SS wanted to go canoeing so MIL & I watched them for a while and then we went for a walk around the shops and an ice cream. The canoeing was a one hour slot. After an hour MIL & I went back down to the beach and DH and SS got out of the sea then proceeded to tell us they going back in for a swim. I got really annoyed as both MIL and I were getting burned from standing around, MIL still has her arm in a sling from her surgery and I didn't go canoeing to keep her company so she is not sat on her own. I then said to SS "No you not we have been standing around waiting for you over an hour and a half and we went to play crazy golf this morning like you wanted so enough now", MIL said that DH and SS may as well have come away on their own for the weekend (very surprising as SS is usually her favourite ,golden grandchild). SS then ran up ahead and started whinging to DH how he wanted to go swimming , I repeated in front of DH that we have been waiting for them for an hour and a half are both getting burned now and don't want to stand around anymore, all the while SS carried on whinging in the background eventually I just lost it and said to SS "Can you stop now you are actually getting on my last nerve with your whinging!" I don't know who was more shocked me or SS as I've never been so short with him.

I couldn't wait to get home after the weekend as it was a total nightmare. I don't think I'll be going away with DH and SS again in a hurry. The only good thing that came of it was that MIL could see SS for the spoilt entitled brat he is, as well as, the complete lack of parenting her son provides for him.