Mommie Dearest
On Friday we had McFussiePants' year end program. Afterwords at the pot luck, Mom and I were standing around talking to some of the other moms. She said a couple things that were kinda snippy about how much I do compared to how much she does. I just blew it off.
The next day, at a kid's birthday party, one of the other mothers commented on what my mom said. She said that if her mom had said that stuff to her, there would have been a row that lasted a week, and how nice I am to have not said anything. I told them that I knew Mom was tired, and she gets a little grumpy sometimes, but it always passes.
I was so tired today, I was having trouble standing, and she would say "I know, I'm tired too, but I just tell myself to keep going." I just kept my mouth shut. She wasn't telling me to get up, she was trying to tell me that she's not doing all that great herself, but I still wanted to scream at her that my tired and her tired aren't the same thing. She knows that too. She's just being bitchy.
She's really freaking out about McFussiePants going to school. She has no life outside of fixing her house and my kid. Without MFP taking up her day, she'll just have her house. She's the one with the empty-nest syndrome, and it's my kid! She keeps talking about how unhappy she is here and how much she just wants to get in her van and take off. That van hasn't been started in a year and a half. And the more tired and freaked out she gets, the more she snipes at me.
When she signed MFP up for t-ball, she tells me "you can be involved with it or not, it's your choice." I told her that I want to, but I don't know if my body will let me. I'm glad that mom is getting Cassandra into swimming lessons and t-ball, but it's not because she's coming in rescuing MFP from the nerds... I CAN'T DO ALL THAT!! I can't get up, get her to swimming lessons, head to work, then do t-ball practice. This is not by choice!
I just can't help to but to feel a little vindicated that someone else saw her being this way with me. I just wish she would stop doing thins in the first place.