Cookies, my goodness - so then next it could be you! Keep us posted.
So, ladies - I really need to vent. This is the best place I could think of to do it, so if you don't care to read, please feel free to skip over this post entirely!
Our families are going to drive me UP. THE. WALL. My MIL is coming on Thursday and spending the night in order to take care of my older kids while we're having the baby. It's wonderful of her to do so and I'm grateful for it, but...she wants to stay for SEVEN days. She'll be parked on a blow up bed in my livingroom for up to five days after we come home with our new baby. I don't want or need a houseguest for that long, it's going to drive me crazy. THEN, on top of that, DH mentioned that FIL may want to come for a couple of days too!
Then...my Father. He has a long history of drinking and more, and has never been altogether "there". I was talking to him one day and mentioned in a joking manner that the first thing that I wanted after I had the baby was a beer (I've been craving it all along) - now he's got it into his head that not only is he coming to the hospital (which he has not been invited to do nor is he welcome) but he's bringing a six pack of beer with him! Can you imagine? I would be totally mortified!! I told him today that I did NOT want him to do that, that he was welcome to bring me some after we got home... and he said "oh no, it's ok, I'm not afraid to do it" - like he thinks I was joking. Because sure, I really want him to embarrass me that way.
And THEN...my Mother! My parents are not together, they have been divorced for a long, long time. Well, my mother has a boyfriend that HER mother doesn't approve of. She hasn't been seeing him long, and I'm not really comfortable with him being around for the birth either. I'm afraid she'll bring him to the hospital and then my grandparents will be fighting with them.
Is anyone familiar with the Jerry Springer show? That's the way my life seems right now! What I'd honestly like is for everyone to stop thinking of themselves and start thinking about/listening to DH and myself and what we want during the birth of OUR child.
In the midst of all of this, I found out today that my youngest got assigned a teacher that we do NOT approve of. My older one has already had her and it was a nightmare. So we don't need to meet her, per se, but now I have to decide between now and Thursday whether or not I want to go through the trouble of trying to arrange a meeting with the principal and have him switched...potentially causing problems one way or another.
UGH!!!!!!! I've seen a lot of posts where people say that they want to be totally alone in the hospital and would rather for people to not visit until a week or so after baby is born, and I've always thought that sounded really lonely. Now, however, I'm thinking that they have the right idea!
Ok, end of vent. If you actually read this and made it through, I apologize for all of the complaining. I just had to get it off my chest.
Off to take deep breaths....
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I think that makes four of us now, doesn't it?
