Tales from the beach house

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Wait. Someone denying "me" coffee would mean war.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait. Someone denying "me" coffee would mean war.

I know, right? I totally sympathize with the nauseous pregnant lady. But dang I need my coffee. Take the pot outside and brew it on the balcony. Then bring it back inside and enjoy.

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My MIL sent an advance email outlining all the rules for the long weekend getaway at their river house with extended family. It included a dress code for lunches and dinners that stated explicitly that no shorts were permitted. All males were to wear long pants and collared shirts to meals.

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Anonymous wrote:My MIL sent an advance email outlining all the rules for the long weekend getaway at their river house with extended family. It included a dress code for lunches and dinners that stated explicitly that no shorts were permitted. All males were to wear long pants and collared shirts to meals.

Ugh. No thank you.

Is this trip coming up or have you already survived it?

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No coffee because someone is pregnant? Sorry, but that would never fly. She can blow a fan on her face or something. I need coffee to poop and to wake up. I've been pregnant and nauseous. But I'm not going to be constipated and groggy all day because of your pregnancy!

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Anonymous wrote:Just went on vacation with my parents. The comments made about food was absurd. My poor teenagers! My mom kept badgering my kids to eat walnuts saying it was good for their eyesight.

I'm cracking up at this mental image! What else?

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Anonymous wrote:wait, can we get back to how in the hell you logistically facetime with a cat?!

The crazy cat lady had a pet sitter.

Of course if I was a crazy enough person to FaceTime with my cat he would probably be asleep and just open one eye to look at me sarcastically and then close it

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I had forgot that mini golf is a torture device invented by Satan himself to make everyone miserable. We took my 8 year old neice and everyone was miserable. We should have done go karting.

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Anonymous wrote:I had forgot that mini golf is a torture device invented by Satan himself to make everyone miserable. We took my 8 year old neice and everyone was miserable. We should have done go karting.

Wut??? I love mini golf! Go karting is fun, too. When possible we do both.

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Anonymous wrote:My MIL sent an advance email outlining all the rules for the long weekend getaway at their river house with extended family. It included a dress code for lunches and dinners that stated explicitly that no shorts were permitted. All males were to wear long pants and collared shirts to meals.

This made me LOL.

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Anonymous wrote:My MIL sent an advance email outlining all the rules for the long weekend getaway at their river house with extended family. It included a dress code for lunches and dinners that stated explicitly that no shorts were permitted. All males were to wear long pants and collared shirts to meals.

This made me LOL.

Me, too! But on the other hand, MIL's house, MIL's rules. You gotta hand it to the MIL that she is being up front about expectations; no passive aggression here for sure!

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Anonymous wrote:Beach vacation with my husband, kids and ILs (FIL/MIL, older aunt/cousin, SIL and her wife and kid). All is going well, and we are having fun. But I thought I'd send some dispatches:

1) SIL's wife is pregnant and is making much of it. She sleeps all day/stays in her room, doesn't watch her 1.5 year old AT ALL, and has her wife running all over at her beck and call: bringing her food, doing her laundry, making special requests like "no coffee this morning, please, my wife is feeling nauseous." We are all rolling with it, but come ON. You are pregnant, it's really not that big a deal.


2) FIL's kitchen habits are kind of funny but kind of gross: microwaving coffee in the late afternoon that had been sitting cold still on the burner all day; standing in the kitchen eating rather than ever sitting down.

3) MIL pretending never to eat indulgent food or drink alcohol, but indulging at every opportunity. It's OK! You can eat and drink, we won't judge!

4) The aunt is a crazy cat lady: any time any of the kids do or say something cute, she launches into a story about her 7 cats. She FaceTimes with her cats via the pet-sitter twice daily.

1) wait, they're saying she doesn't want coffee, or that no one in the house should brew coffee?

2) that's really not that bad at all. at least he's not wasting or hogging the best sofa in the house like other people i've gone on vacation with.

OP here. Yeah, they're saying no one should brew coffee because SIL's wife (who is sleeping in on the lower third level and the kitchen is on the top floor) might smell it.

Wait, I can't have my morning coffee because some woman forgot to take her birth control?!?! A treat for me!

That's a non-starter - I don't think I'd even dignify it with a response, and go about brewing my morning fix.

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Anonymous wrote:Beach vacation with my husband, kids and ILs (FIL/MIL, older aunt/cousin, SIL and her wife and kid). All is going well, and we are having fun. But I thought I'd send some dispatches:

1) SIL's wife is pregnant and is making much of it. She sleeps all day/stays in her room, doesn't watch her 1.5 year old AT ALL, and has her wife running all over at her beck and call: bringing her food, doing her laundry, making special requests like "no coffee this morning, please, my wife is feeling nauseous." We are all rolling with it, but come ON. You are pregnant, it's really not that big a deal.


2) FIL's kitchen habits are kind of funny but kind of gross: microwaving coffee in the late afternoon that had been sitting cold still on the burner all day; standing in the kitchen eating rather than ever sitting down.

3) MIL pretending never to eat indulgent food or drink alcohol, but indulging at every opportunity. It's OK! You can eat and drink, we won't judge!

4) The aunt is a crazy cat lady: any time any of the kids do or say something cute, she launches into a story about her 7 cats. She FaceTimes with her cats via the pet-sitter twice daily.

1) wait, they're saying she doesn't want coffee, or that no one in the house should brew coffee?

2) that's really not that bad at all. at least he's not wasting or hogging the best sofa in the house like other people i've gone on vacation with.

OP here. Yeah, they're saying no one should brew coffee because SIL's wife (who is sleeping in on the lower third level and the kitchen is on the top floor) might smell it.

Wait, I can't have my morning coffee because some woman forgot to take her birth control?!?! A treat for me!

That's a non-starter - I don't think I'd even dignify it with a response, and go about brewing my morning fix.

And let me add, it makes no difference - at all - where she's sleeping. She could be on the pull-out couch next to the coffee maker, and I'd still make it. Come on.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait. Someone denying "me" coffee would mean war.

I know, right? I totally sympathize with the nauseous pregnant lady. But dang I need my coffee. Take the pot outside and brew it on the balcony. Then bring it back inside and enjoy.

Yeah, the rest of these stories are funny in that people are weird way. Telling me not to make coffee on vacation is NOT ok.

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Anonymous wrote:Grandparents (DH's parents) told us our kids wandering around in their undies or just shorts inside their house made them uncomfortable. Now we are scrambling to keep them dressed without making them feel weird about their bodies but I can't explain why they want them in clothes because even when they explained it I didn't understand. I just agreed to keep the peace. We've just started saying "grandma wants it this way".

They are 8, 7 and 4 and my grandmother actually said 'she isn't wearing a shirt and she is a young woman!' about the 7 yr old. I corrected her and said 'no, she is a little girl' but I don't want you uncomfortable so that's fine. They are all very skinny- as are his parents- no boobs in sight.

To be clear, it's just us and the grandparents. No visitors/other family. No huge windows where people can see in. My DH is perplexed and we are trying to think where/why this came from. They've never said a thing in our house in DC when they were shirtless. I'm starting to wonder if someone touched grandma as a child

Uh, yeah, they should be clothed at that age, PP.

OP here, and I agree with the PP who agrees that the kids at that age should be clothed. YOU are actually the weird one, no-clothes mom. People are writing about their ILs meaning YOU in this scenario. Why would they not be wearing clothes-clothes, bathing suits and cover ups, or pajamas at least?

I'm not no-clothes mum. Children do need clothes. They are clothed. In underwear, swim trunks or shorts on the bottom. For some reason that isn't enough. (I'm not talking about eating meals at the table without a shirt- we don't do that). Please explain because we are lost (and obviously DH grew up in their home and is annoyed but going along with it).

Underwear is not clothes. It is to "wear under" and not "wear" on its own.

Why no shirts?