[Magic_Mikki]

DH and I have class every Monday night and my mom comes over to our house to watch the kids. I am very, very grateful that she takes her Monday nights every week to do this for us, but its becoming almost not worth it. I hesitate to write this post because I don't want to seem ungrateful. I am very appreciative of my mom and what she does for us.

Anyway, DH and I are ready to throw in the towel and find someone else to watch the kids on Mondays! My mom is a total slob at our house, and dang near unreliable! She is late almost every single time and makes it seem like it is such a HUGE inconvenience for her to watch them. Sometimes I don't make it to class on time and the professor gets angry and says if I am going to be more than 5 minutes late don't bother coming. My mom also leaves dirty dishes all over our house, and doesn't even bother to put them in the sink. If they could even make it to somewhere (ANYWHERE!) in the kitchen, I would be happy with that! She gets angry if we don't have things to eat that she doesn't like (and we have a wide variety of things) and won't feed Alex supper unless I lay something out for her to eat. It can't be something that needs to be made, either. That would be too much work for her! It has to be something that my mom can either just heat up for 30 seconds or something like PB&J, which is even pushing it! Last week I put out a box of mac and cheese and my mom threw a fit and was angry.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg!!! I feel horrible for complaining, because its just a temporary arrangement (done in May). But we are to our wit's end and I'm thinking of 'firing' her! We come home at about 9:30 and the kids are either still awake (bedtime is 8:00pm) or she put them to bed right after dinner so she could watch The Bachelor in peace! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? Why can't she just put them to bed at 8:00? I swear she does these things just to get back at me for relying on her so much to babysit. If we don't ask her to babysit she gets angry and accuses us of liking DH's parents better (not too far off on that one sometimes ) and says she never gets to sit. But then when we do ask her, she always has such huge, outrageous conditions, like we have to send food for Alex (when they go to her house), they have to already be wearing PJ's if they are staying into the evening, etc. Other things, too, like we have to do her dishes and take out her garbage, etc. DH's parents on the other hand will bend over backwards for us to help out, and they love babysitting! Maybe if they weren't so generous to us it wouldn't make my mom look so bad, but she is looking downright lazy and trashy sometimes.

Anyway, sorry for the long post. It's just really eating at me becasue she babysat last night and it's fresh in my mind. Last night, I even made sloppy joes before we left for class so that it was hot and ready when my mom got to our house and she complained because she doesn't like the flavor of Manwhich crap I used! Grrr!! I just can't win with her.