Thanks. It's all very frustrating. My mother cut her visit short because she was angry. She knew that we had a grad party to attend for a nephew on hubby's side of the family. We had to bring the baby as much of his family was waiting to meet him, and the rest "needed their baby fix." It's quite a drive and we were only going to stay for an hour. But since we were taking the baby she "might just as well go home." She cut her visit by 2 1/2 days since we were going to be gone 5 hours!

Now she's home having a pity party. Truth be told I feel guilty. Not because of her guilt trip, my focus is on my grandson and if she can't be bothered to make plans and stick to them its on her. (Although, her guilt trips still work on my children ) I feel guilty because I was happy to see her go. I feel like a horrible person. Who does that?

It did open a discussion with my own children. If I turn into that person TELL ME! My parents were always very loving with my own children. But when I think about it, it was always my responsibility to pack all four of my kids up and travel the four hours to see them. When I started working on the weekends my mom started complaining because I didn't bring them up as often. I pointed out that she's off every weekend and holiday. We are not, it's much easier for one adult to jump in the car and make the trip than it is for an adult and four children.

As a side note, one of the reasons that she was so annoyed was because she expected my daughter to take her to the city to go shopping. Who was supposed to watch the baby? We were working, he wasn't feeling well. I tried to reason with her and point out that in two weeks the baby would be baptized. She had all day Saturday to do her shopping. She didn't want to wait the two weeks. She wants to buy a chair. They are not going to deliver 6 hours away, she apparently expects my husband to deliver it to her. How? Why didn't she do that 6 weeks ago when we all took vacation and had the time to do it? Now our schedule is planned down to the minute. My daughter has returned to work and school. It is a complicated dance to get all of the childcare covered. Trying to find a solution, I suggested that she leave her car here and drive our truck home with her chair in it and my cousins can haul it in for her. No, she doesn't want to drive the truck. How about my van, it'll fit in my van, take my van home. No, she doesn't want to do that either.

We have another grandson due the end of September across the country. We are going out there when the baby is born. Further, when we go out there, we are moving another one of our son's out there so the new parents there will have a support system when the baby arrives. So every second of vacation and day off is already planned out for the next year.

The kicker is she that she has a brand new recliner that she just bought 2 months ago. She doesn't like it. She likes the one my daughter has better so we have to figure out a way to get her what she wants. She has a list of honey do jobs for my husband. My husband will have to take the baby up there during his days to watch the baby so he can get her **** done. I swear to you that my mother is more work than the new born!