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07-24-2006, 10:46 AM
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Junior Mommysavers Member
Last Online: 10-26-2007 03:04 PM
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I don't kow how much I have shared with the ladies on here about SFIL, but he really doesn't fit in the family very well, to begin with. He is holier-than-thou and kind of a stick in the mud. DH's family likes to have fun and probably haven't all really grown up. I remember once when we went to their house and played a harmless prank on my MIL and SFIL and he threw a fit the next day. I mean, what happened to his sense of humor? But that is a little background into his personality. I don't actually dislike the man, but I always like it better when MIL comes over without him, as she is more fun when his self righteous personality is not chaining up her own sense of fun.
Anyway, they finally got over here to see little Rhiannon. I was putting the finishing touches on lunch, DH was busy at the grill as we were grilling out. MIL was holding her new granddaughter and my three older children were outside playing. SFIL was supposed to be watching them as DH was trying to grill and obviously didn't want them around the hot grill. MIL standing by the window asked me, "Do you want Shamus (my two year old DS) down there?" I looked and he was down near the dirt road in the weeds. Now we live i a rural area and not too much traffic goes by, but some that does go by at insane speeds! I never let them in that part of the yard for that very reason! On top of it, right where he was, there was some poison ivy that DH had not been able to get rid of yet. (That stuff is so hard to kill) I went running out of the house as fast as I could. SFIL was just standing there not doing anything! I hollered, "There is poison ivy down there!" (Not to mention he was heading down to the road, but that should havebeen obvious!) "I tried to tell him to come back up," SFIL remarked casually. I thought and almost said, "Well, why didn't you go and GET him then!" Two year olds don't always comply like they should. Sometimes you have to intervene physically for their own safety. I ran back in with my 30 pound toddler (even though I am only two weeks post partum) to wash him down with dish soap in the bathtub, in hopes of preventing him coming down with a rash. SFIL did not even offer to help. DH had no idea what was going on. So far, so good. It looks like no one has gotten a rash yet. I have had some horrible experiences with PI, so I hardly wanted DS to get it, nor myself, or -- horrors! -- have it transfered to the new baby. That stuff has a way of getting spread around, in spite of precautions. But even though it looks like we have escaped unscathed, I am still steamed. Obviously he does not make a good babysitter. Just one more thing to make me glad when MIL leaves him at home. Grr. Just had to vent. What do you all think? Sorry so long.
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