11/02/2006
General crankiness...
I am not sure why but I have been in the most horrendous mood ALL day. I suspect it is because my adorable (NOT!) husband is away until saturday and I have been left to deal with celebrating his Mum`s 60th birthday. I guess I am pissed because I don`t get the choice as to whether or not I can celebrate my Mum`s birthday with her because she lives so far away. I guess that it wouldn`t occur to me to organise a weekend away with my co-workers on the same weekend as my Mum`s birthday if she only lived a couple of hours away. Obviously as my family live on the opposite side of the world, I don`t have that luxury. I am also cranky because due to my SIL`s inability to discipline her daughter and the fact my niece is unable to behave in public places, I have to track down a restaurant with a private room so that we can contain the craziness. I am pissed because I have never had to do the same thing with Joey, he has always gone wherever we wanted to go and I have never given it a second thought because he usually sits and behaves throughout our meal. I guess I am doubly pissed off because all the organising has been left to me and it isn`t my child who is causing the problem in the first place. Thanks to the lovely lady downstairs, I think we have found somewhere but I have to call to confirm. I am not sure why I, the non-native speaker has to do all the calling but I am sure it has something to do with me being the wife of the older son or some such bollocks.
On the bright side, the aforementioned lovely lady downstairs sent her daughter up to play with Joey at lunchtime so I could get some stuff done around the house. Joey was happy and I managed to get some of his warmer clothes out. He has WAY too many jackets so he will be wearing a different one every week when the weather cools down!!! LOL!
Anyways, think of me tomorrow while I am stuck dealing with all the birthday crap and send "bite your tongue" vibes as it isn`t my place to tell my SIL how to bring up/ discipline her child... even in passing.. must control urge to tell her that she needs to be more of a parent and less of a pushover because if my niece is getting her own way so much now at 14 months, I am dreading to see what the teenage years will be like!!
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5 comments:
What a pain in the arse! I think it`s a great testament to your great parenting skills that little J can sit through a meal at a restaurant and behave. Good for you.
Good luck with the MIL`s birthday!
Well maybe I exagerrate a little, I wouldn`t take him to a really posh restaurant or anything but my SIL can`t take my niece ANYWHERE and that is the problem I think.
awww hugs it is so hard being so hard from home.
It is hard to deal with other's kids at times. I do hope you can find the right the location.
Best of luck tomorrow!
The girls have almost always behaved well in public and they love to eat out.
I can sympathize with parents who have kids who can't control what they do but that's not usually the case.
If mine started running wild or throwing tantrums, we left. Simple and it usually has to happen only once.
That's awful that you are stuck with the party planning. I know how unbelievably stressed I get for Christmas every year, and that's for people I like!
Hope it all goes well and Aoi uses Joey as a role model!
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