Reason #22

to be pissed with my mother in law.
hey y'all! I know it's been awhile but... I finally got pregnant, had the baby, took time off work, and just got back into my new "normal". So I'm back.
I have this list I made in my google drive of shit my mother in law does that makes me respond in varying degrees from shaking my head to making me scream. All things that I'm swearing never to do with my child(ren)
#22... made me scream
So we have a baby, he's great. We have daycare nearby, almost as great. My mother in law came out for A's birthday and forth of July celebrations and in doing so met my day care lady... they exchanged numbers and we thought nothing of it.
And then the first day of day care was coming up so we took little man to go over for a "preview day"... I was a wreck. At some point it came up that my mother in law texted her...something like this:
A: we're so glad you are able to watch him, and that he's known you for awhile, makes it like family.
DC: speaking of family, your mom texted me the other day
A: oh yea about what?
DC: she wants me to send her pictures of little man when he gets here
A:... ummm...excuse me?
me: we haven't even asked you to send us pictures yet
DC: well you know some grandparents have a hard time adjusting to being GRANDparents and not THE parents.
A: ummm ok... I guess it doesn't matter if she's included she'll see them later anyways
***change of subject***

A calls his mother that night and mentions that discussion... his mother acts as though there was nothing wrong with going around us and asking for pictures directly from day care lady. He figured just calling her out on it would be enough... but the next day while I was an emotional wreck at my first day back at work I got a picture message from our day care. It was also sent to the MIL.... fine... but then... a response... to a group message... in case you didn't know... is sent to everyone in the group message... and the MIL response was as follows:
"OH my he's getting so big! Haven't seen pictures of him since we flew out there last month. Glad someone with experience is finally taking care of him! Thank you so much!"
Ok. I can blame new mommy hormones for about 30% of my knee jerk reaction to want to punch her in the throat.... and this is why.
I take about 30-50 pictures a week of my little man, usually in spurts of three to four at a time. At the end of each week I upload them to our Shutterfly account and share all but the ones with my boobs in them on our shutterfly share site, of which she is a member. So I log on and it shows that she was looking, liking, and commenting on pictures not even 24 hours prior to that statement of haven't seen pictures. so suck it bitch.
and do I really need to point out why her comment of someone with experience is offensive...
So I reply back TO ALL saying, yes we are so grateful to have DC taking care of little man in our absence. When I picked him up I made it clear she was no longer to be included on pictures, I didn't even have to explain, she understood and said no more pictures to MIL unless they come from us, as it should be.
Praise Jebus
And that ladies and gents is reason number 22 to be pissed at my mother in law.