Relatives can suck. My mom for example sucks right now. SUCKS Big time! She called me this morning to tell me that her mom, my grandma, had requested she go to an old family friend's birthday party the week before my boy's birthday party. She then asked if she could come see us and stay the night after that party. (Side note: My mom lives about 5 hours from us and the first party is about 1 hour from our home). So I asked her if she was coming to the boys party which was 5 days later? Oh no of course not, that would be too much. I wanted to clarify that I was hearing things correctly so I asked, "So your going to B's party but your not coming to the boy's birthday party"? I was calm when I asked this, but the question set her off BIG TIME. Her exact response was, "Why do you like to hate me". Oh here we go is all I could think.
The good news is I was always calm, told her I thought her priorities were screwed up. Told her I'd understand more if she couldn't make it down south at all. But what irked me was that she could make it to someone else's party and not to the boy's party. The conversation basically ended with her playing martyr and telling me, "I'll be there" and hanging up.
Honestly, between hubby's family not being involved, my mom being a twit, my dad being grumpy lately and not wanting to drive at night, I've really just about had it. Frankly I'm seriously considering just not having a party with anyone. Just the five of us and some cake! The boys won't care and really I can get great birthday pictures for their memory books without the drama of family. I really don't know.
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