I need somewhere to have a little rant and I hope some of you can understand. I'm sure I've mentioned on here before that my OHs family aren't my cup of tea (have parties every weekend with their kids upstairs every weekend whilst they're all drunk, palm off their kids to anyone, his nieces and nephews are awfully behaved, etc.) but we have just found out that his sister is pregnant with her 4th.
All of her children have different dads and have all been from short term relationships or one night stands and none of them see or have anything to do with them. As you can imagine, everyone thought she was absolutely mad as it turns out this was PLANNED because she wants to have a boy. I guess it wouldn't be so bad but the 3 she has now is a perfect example of what people don't want their kids to be like. The oldest is 9 and just got excluded from school for hitting teachers and swearing and the youngest who is 5 who will call her mum all of the names under the sun if she doesn't get her own way.
We are constantly asked to babysit and have now refuse to have all 3 of them at the same time because they are too much to handle, especially now I'm pregnant. They will go through all of my things in my bedroom, all of my kitchen cupboards, locks themselves in the toilets, hit me in the belly (they do it because they know I'm pregnant!) and just don't do anything they're told in general. Even her dad has said that's it just going to be another kid for someone else to raise. I do believe her kids misbehave so much because they crave so much attention because they don't get it from their mum, so I can't imagine what it's going to be like when all of her attention is going to be on a newborn baby.
Anyway, we went round there on boxing day to see them and I couldn't believe some of the stuff she was saying. She asked me if I was going to get extra baby things and at first I was really confused and I was like "what, no, why would I?" and she said "because when you babysit my baby you're going to have to have things for mine as well as yours"... I couldn't believe it. The thought of my baby even being around her kids makes me cringe. I've never met anyone like it.
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Hopefully they will forgive me. I'm just so tired and sore and swollen and headachey. I just need to sleep some more I think.
