My in-laws need to learn the difference between helping with the baby and playing with the baby, and they need to learn it PDQ. They also need to understand that when we say don't buy her anything pink, we especially mean don't buy her a farking horrid farking cheap farking pink farking teddy farking bear from farking Clinton's farking cards that farking wants farking burning but they made us put in the farking nursery and we're going to have to farking remember to farking get out every farking time they farking visit. FFS.
Seriously. No Pink.
I sent my MIL a Bedsnake Bat for Christmas one year. She loved it. Younger SIL thought it inappropriate . FIL just looked a bit bemused. The older 2 SILs liked it, thought it was funny.My in laws are brilliant, I used to service the mother in law's broomstick for her. A joke we kept going for years. Early in my relationship with Lu the mil bought me a furry willy warmer for Christmas, which I unwittingly unwrapped in front of the whole family. From that point on it was open warfare and we were always sparring, with big grins on our faces.
I miss her.
They've got good intentions, but they don't really listen to or understand their daughter.sounds like a good mutual understanding in the making...lol i know your pain
Sell it on Gumtree and just tell the in-laws that the dog slobbered on it, or the cat sleeps on it, or you dropped it outside in some mud. Stolen by seagulls is very topical at the moment, that could work.My in-laws need to learn the difference between helping with the baby and playing with the baby, and they need to learn it PDQ. They also need to understand that when we say don't buy her anything pink, we especially mean don't buy her a farking horrid farking cheap farking pink farking teddy farking bear from farking Clinton's farking cards that farking wants farking burning but they made us put in the farking nursery and we're going to have to farking remember to farking get out every farking time they farking visit. FFS.
Seriously. No Pink.
You're talking about the baby right?Sell it on Gumtree and just tell the in-laws that the dog slobbered on it, or the cat sleeps on it, or you dropped it outside in some mud. Stolen by seagulls is very topical at the moment, that could work.
They'd only replace it with something equally awful, it's just their taste and they don't bother thinking about anyone else's. The fact that it's cheapo tat wouldn't occur to them.Sell it on Gumtree and just tell the in-laws that the dog slobbered on it, or the cat sleeps on it, or you dropped it outside in some mud. Stolen by seagulls is very topical at the moment, that could work.
It was Decrmber, it was cold.Your willy was to small? Shame
I had to google bed snake bat. BrilliantI sent my MIL a Bedsnake Bat for Christmas one year. She loved it. Younger SIL thought it inappropriate . FIL just looked a bit bemused. The older 2 SILs liked it, thought it was funny.
I had a guess first, and I wasn't far wrong.I had to google bed snake bat. Brilliant
We solved that bit by moving closer to them, but not that close. Now we see them more often but they go back to their own homes at night. And vice versa.Me i hate it..
wife hates it...
i get the greif....
so how is it is for you when you have visitors that should stay a day.......
Pink = Burn pile, or so my mate Angela tells me. She tells the family this too. They still buy pink stuff and she still uses it as a firelighter. She says that they don't learn and that it's their problem.They'd only replace it with something equally awful, it's just their taste and they don't bother thinking about anyone else's. The fact that it's cheapo tat wouldn't occur to them.
We could try explaining to them exactly why we don't want our daughter surrounded by more pink stuff than she inevitably already has, but it would fall on deaf ears.