~FIL has gone to work in CA. Leaving MIL pretty much helpless with an 18 yo son who only cares about his girlfriend and a ride and a 13 yo son that is fine as long as he is watching the latest movie or playing the latest video game. MIL is seriously considering a divorce. Yes, FIL is a piece of crap IMO, but he is not the only guilty party in the relationship. On Christmas Eve, their POS car blows up. So, hubby has to go pick her up, help her finish running her errands and then take her home. She ends up not even leaving her house or seeing anyone on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day (pity party of one!). Yes, I feel bad that her hubby has left her to tend to everything herself and that her kids show her absolutely no respect. However, she does nothing but bitch and complain. She contributes absolutely nothing to the marriage. She will not take care of herself ($$$-wise). She has no job b/c she has so many ‘ailments’. Yet, she worked as a cashier at the local grocery store for almost a year a couple of years ago. Hello??? Why would her hubby want to stay home? To hear her nag about money when she is doing absolutely nothing to help? I’d be pissed and want to get away too.
Well now that FIL is out of town, my hubby is the one that is constantly having to rescue her and do things for her. School started back this week, but she still had no vehicle. So, hubby had to drive about 30 mins to her house, pick up his 13 yo brother and take him to school another 30 mins away. I wouldn’t mind it, but it’s like this all the time. It’s always something. She always needs something. She absolutely refuses to do anything for herself. I just want to tell her to put her big girl panties on and deal with it!
~Christmas: So, it was crappy that MIL was having her pity party and wouldn’t go anywhere on Christmas. Christmas eve night (actually, Christmas morning) the little one wakes up at around 2:15 am and is just crying. We wait to try to let him cry it out. At 2:45, he’s still crying, so we go get him and sit up with him. He cries for a bit and then is just wide awake. So, we end up doing Christmas at 3 am!! He loved all his presents! We’re up until 4:30 (and throughout all of this, my stomach was killing me. I was so sick!) and finally hubby and I are just sooo tired. So we lay the little one back down for bed and we all go back to sleep. We get up at 8:30. Our entire Christmas schedule is off now (as we had planned on leaving around 8:30. We go to my parents’ house. Daddy is not in the Christmas spirit. With everything that has gone on this year, he says it just doesn’t feel like Christmas. So that was just a bummer. We leave there around 3:30, and head to hubby’s grandparents’ house. We’ve missed dinner and practically everyone has left. So, we’re eating leftovers and realizing that the little one has a very high fever. He’s been congested for about a month at this point, but had developed a cough that week. He’s coughing pretty bad and is really hot and grumpy. We leave the grandparents’ house and head home.
I call the after-hours clinic at 5:15. Next available appt is 7:30. Ok, we’ll take it. to make a long story short, they gave him 3 nebulizer treatments and could not make his wheezing go away or bring his heart rate up. They admitted him to the hospital at 11pm on Christmas day. They discharged him at 3 pm the next day and said it was viral bronchiolitis that had caused an asthmatic attack. He’s doing much much better now. And the day after all of this, his ears started draining. He had tubes put in on 11/30 - and it’s a good thing or else he would’ve had an ear infection on top of everything else!!
~On the way home from the hospital, the car starts acting funny. :( It needs either new spark plugs or coil pack. Luckily my dad is coming down tomorrow to look at it and hopefully fix it. We were thinking about trading it in for something more fuel efficient. I think we’re going to go look tomorrow and probably go trade it in next weekend.
~money sucks. We had no money to fix the car, so we had to take back hubby’s Christmas present from me ( a $200 dvd recorder) in order to pay for the parts. I told him he has to back my present too ( a digital picture frame) just to make it fair. He has a birthday coming up next month, plus valentine’s day, plus wedding anniversary in March. So I’ll make it up to him then and he can make it up to me sometime too.
So are you all caught up yet??? lol!! I’ll try to do better. Especially if I get a new car next weekend! i’ll definitely post!
