My wife and her mom flat out don't get along. You can't put them in the same room for long without them starting to snipe at each other, and her mom is too goddam stupid to know when to shut the hell up. And she's jealous of all the time my parents get to spend with my son (well, my parents didn't up and move to Arizona for god's sake, what does my m-i-l expect??) They come up here without enough money to stay in a damn hotel, then want to bilk off friends and relatives the whole trip which usually ends up at least a month-long ordeal. And they think the whole time they're here that life revolves around their timetable, instead of sticking to a two-year-old's routine..........
They showed up at lunchtime and should have known goddam well that a toddler might need a nap after lunch before a 2:30 party. It was obvious that her mom was chomping at the bit to start something when we said that Jakey needed a nap and they needed to go until at least around 2......but tough shit, children come first!!!
They come back at 2, right when my parents and a friend of my wife's arrived, and you could smell the black mood a-brewin' right off. Her mom wouldn't even say hi to my mom (although somehow my dad is exempt from her cold-shoulder routine.) Five minutes into their time here and she's arguing with my parents that she can come take my son anytime she pleases (over my cold dead body

We tried to have fun the next two hours but even the people that weren't here to witness the fireworks knew something was up and a black cloud was hanging over the whole affair after that.
I just wanted to take a shotgun and beat my m-i-l upside the head for ruining a child's 2nd birthday, but she's just to fucking dumb to get that it's not about her!!!!





The mood is still sour here almost seven hours later.