So, the SD's are already jealous of the baby who is still in my womb. DH and I bought a crib and changing table off of eBay and Craigslist and painted the nursery a couple weeks ago. We also helped the girls fix up their room, bought them new bedding, ran cable to their tv, etc. Their reaction?

"Daddy, how come the baby gets a crib? We didn't get a crib!"

Just when I think "Gee, I have absolutely nothing to blog about this week!" SD9 strikes again. The SD's live about an hour away with their mother. We are supposed to pick them up tomorrow afternoon for our EOWe visit. Apparently this isnt soon enough for good ole SD9. She called my DH in tears about half an hour ago because her mother can't make her choir recital because she has to work. Boo-effing-hoo. How do you think your "daddy" is able to give your mother CS money? I'll give you a hint: it's not because he is sitting around all day waiting for your calls SD.

I guess the holidays emphasize MIL issues because I had thankfully not thought about this woman in quite a while. DH and I were engaged last June and were married this past May. Last year, DH and I and his kids drove the 3 hours to his mother's house to spend Christmas Day with her. While there, she did not once acknowledge my existence, I offered to help in the kitchen and was shooed away, she asked zero questions about our wedding and, as we were leaving, gave the steps a present from her to their mother right in front of me. DH and BM have been divorced since 2006 and never talk.

I swear, she knows the exact things to say to make me cringe. So far this morning she has told her 4 year old sister to shut up for no reason because she was trying to watch a movie, talked about how her maternal grandparents cook soooo much more bacon for them for breakfast than we do (don't worry SD, it's quite obvious you've been hitting the bacon hard), proclaimed to me that DH is HER daddy when I sat down next to him and immediately ran over and sat in his lap, and whined that she did not want to go to church because she had a self-made play date with the neighbor.