Oooh I Pissed Her Off!

The MIL is pissed off at me... big time! So last night we had to go to the viewing for Grandma Nanny... Now mind you this is Jerry's family's thing, and although I know a lot of people there, I am not completely comfortable in this situation. So, I focus my attention on my baby and try to make the best of it. Maddy was an angel. She was happy, smiling, wonderful. Grandma Betty (the Grand Pubba of the family) takes her from me and shares her with her bizarre friend also named Betty. Then they want to go downstairs for coffee and pastry, so I take her back. Well, MIL wants to take Maddy with her downstairs and I said no. She was like "are you sure?" and I said "yep." I just sat there smiling and playing with Maddy and she huffed away. Now, I didn't say no to be a bitch or anything... I said no because Maddy was pooping and I knew she was going to want a bottle at any given moment and need changed. Just being a mommy. So, then Jer takes Maddy and changes her diaper and gives her back to me to eat. OK, then he takes Jenna from SIL and takes her for a walk. Turns out he ran into MIL.

You see the in-law's are planning a long weekend visit to Auntie Susie in North Carolina (aka Jerry's godmother). We were supposed to go with them next weekend; however, we have a four-legged problem named Mugsy. We have nowhere for him to go, because the only people he would stay with and not freak out and bite someone are my parents, but they are also going out of town. We can't just leave him in the cage for three days - I would call that abuse. Mugsy won't let BIL let him out (BIL is not going due to work obligations), we have tried this before and Mugsy about took his arm off... So, this is the dilemma. It is also a slight problem for me to get off work (they just decided to take this trip over the weekend - not a long-time planned thing), but I have jury duty the whole following week so taking off on Friday isn't the best thing. And, after much discussion, Jerry and I decided we should probably just stay home. And, he told his mom this last night. And, she kinda flipped out.

She really wants Maddy to go and could care less about us, but she is giving us a major guilt trip and is pretty upset. I think a lot of it stems from the fact that they go on vacation every year to the outer banks and we never go (they just came back a couple weeks ago). She totally blames this all on me. She thinks I just don't want to go with them, when the reality is that neither does her son and 90% of the time he is the one that is driving the decision NOT to go! Anyhow, she is mad at me. Too bad. She'll get over it.