Okay, well this morning at 4:30 am, I finally woke up because my baby woke up, but I had been coughing all night, so I slept like crap.
So did my husband, because of the coughing.
I felt awful because obviously I came down with something.
My in-laws were expecting us for dinner, but that obviously wasn't happening. So when we called to cancel, MIL suggested that they drive down to pick up the baby and they would take her for awhile so that we could rest. We agreed to that. I sent my husband upstairs to rest because he could barely keep his eyes open. They were supposed to come by two hours from said phone call.
My baby is still kind of a contact napper, so when she fell asleep in my arms, so did I. And when I say I passed out let me tell you I was dead to the world!
At noon, apparently, they rang the doorbell. I was in a room in the back, I did not hear it. They did not call me. They apparently rang the doorbell again. Again I don't hear it. I hear my phone go off, but don't reach it in time, but that's enough to wake me. It was my husband. I look at my phone and just received a text from SFIL that says they're outside. I text him okay. My brain isn't working at a hundred percent, plus I just woke up. I have a groggy baby, and I'm grabbing the diaper bag on the way out. My sister who's staying with us for a bit shouts upstairs "I found her!" And I hear my husband mumble something as I'm opening the front door to head out. I get to the street and there's no one there. I look around confused and then pull my phone out. There's another text from SFIL that says "It doesn't seem like it's a good time" so I still confused and a little angry text back "ok then". From his first text to my last one, it's been maybe 6 minutes.
When I get back in, I'm still confused and now getting angrier because WTH?
While I'm trying to put baby back down. My husband texts me that just when he thought I couldn't be more irresponsible I pull this shit. And I'm just like "what the actual f?" How the fuck is all this my fault.
To top it off, these are the set of grandparents who say they want to be part of my daughter's life, but constantly find excuses when I reach out to hang out, or MIL makes comments like "can't wait to take you shopping" so like obviously you can't be assed about the toddler age, so that's cool.
They apparently proceeded to berate my husband as they drove off. They bitches that they spent 30 minutes out there, but I literally have time stamped texts that show how little they actually waited for.
The best part about all this, is that my sister answered the door and she told them to hold on she would go get me. So why did they leave?
Keep in mind all this happened while I can't fucking breathe properly and keep coughing, so I'm rushing around feeling dizzy while carrying my baby. So then I spent the whole fucking day trying to take it easy while my toddler is running like crazy and my husband who said he wanted to take care of me is just asleep in the bedroom. Thank God for my sister because she was helping with making me tea and soup.
As far as I'm concerned, next time they ask to babysit, I'll say no thank you, and try really, really hard to not say "fuck off".
Anyway, am I wrong for feeling this way? Are they in the wrong for just leaving, then berating my husband?
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You need to punch your husband :D You let him go rest while you stayed with the baby...and he had to add in that passive aggressive BS? NO SIR!
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