[lauriej79]

Hey girls,
Friday night went great! My parents did a great job I must say. They stuck to the schedule, managed to get them to take all their bottles and managed to keep them asleep and not feed them until 8am! I was impressed because Presley can get a little rowdy by 6 or 6:30 and I expected that if she did they might not be able to handle her but they did really good. I picked them up around 10am.

My b-day is actually tomorrow and Friday is when we leave to go to the beach but I told DH last night I just didn't know if we needed to go. We had a little drama last night and we were both quite adjatated. My mother called me about 10pm and told me that she had just gotten off the phone with DH's mother and that DH's mother had called her to "tell" her that they were coming down on Saturday to take care of the babies!?!? WTH? DH mentioned it to her like 2 weeks ago and she said that she wanted to "see how it went" with my parents before she kept them. She can't handle it is the problem. (All this from the woman who has said so many times that she was coming down to stay with them all day to give us a break, she was going to spend the night and take care of them, yada, yada, yada.....) So my Mom is completely put on the spot and didn't know what to say so she was just like "okay.....". DH was furious and so was I for that matter but I tried to stay calm. I can't believe that she just assumed that we would be okay with this and that she just bypassed us and called my mother without consulting with DH or I. I mean who does that??? Plus, she isn't offering to keep them either night, she is just going to show up when it is convienent for them on Saturday and stay however long she wants and go home when they get ready. DH said their was no way in hell that she was doing that. He doesn't think that it is fair to my parents and said if she is going to keep them she needs to plan on spending one of the nights. Not to mention (and I am not trying to be ugly but it is unfortunately true) she doesn't "know" my kids. She has probably been around them 10 times (maybe 12) since they were born. We live about 1 hour and a half away from each other so we don't see them too much. That is another thing DH is upset about because he feels like when his own brothers son was born his mother visited a lot more.
So my poor mom is like "I don't even know whether I am supposed to tell you or not" and I was like "Are you kidding me?? Is she stupid? She knows that we talk EVERY day!" "How can she put you in a position like that and then you are the one who ends up telling us this is what she wants to do instead of her??"

Needless to say, we may not even be going. I think it is more trouble that it is worth (we are going to the beach Sept. 3rd already) and this is just too much drama. DH was disapointed but I told him it may just be too much to leave them for that long. I haven't been 100 percent about it anyway. So maybe it will just be a quiet day tomorrow and we can go out to eat tomorrow night somewhere.