My inlaws make me crazy!

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Okay, so I know that not everyone gets along with their in-laws the best. I get along with mine fine, they just alternate between really driving me nuts and pissing me off a lot of the time. For that reason, I don’t look forward to phone calls. I know they will say something kind of rude- not even intentionally but it’s like they don’t even know better.

So last night of course we had to call them to tell them the baby is a girl. I was really excited to call them. I thought they would be excited. Why did I think that? I don’t know.

Let me preface this by saying that when we called to tell them we were getting married, it took like three days to get a hold of them. They said, “Congratulations, good for you.” That was about it. THen the subject changed. His mom later told him that they couldn’t be excited for him because they didn’t know me very well. Whatever. So when we told them we were PG, I was once again excited, and they said, “Oh, that’s good news.” Never show much emotion.

Why did I think last night’s phone call would be any better?

Here’s about how the conversation went.

Jonathon: So we had our big ultrasound today…
Inlaws: Oh, we didn’t know that was coming up. Well good for you. (No questions or anything about it.)
Jonathon: This is the ultrasound where we can find out the gender of the baby.
Inlaws: Well, we’d be happy with either.
Jonathon: How would you like to have a granddaughter?
Inlaws: That would be fine. We’d be happy with either.
Jonathon: It’s a girl!!! You ARE having a granddaughter!!
Inlaws: Good… you sound like you have some congestion. Have you been taking any sinus medicine?
(switch to conversation about sinuses for about two minutes)
Me: So I don’t think you heard: We know that the baby is a girl! Isn’t that great?
Inlaws: Yes, we heard… do you know when you are going to be coming in town.
Jonathon: I think Tara is a little disappointed that you aren’t more excited.
MIL: We don’t want anyone to get too excited yet, there is a lot of time to go and something could still happen to the baby. We know someone who lost a baby at 25 weeks.
(At this point I get up and leave the room)

What the hell is wrong with these people? Can they not be happy for us? Who tells their pregnant daughter-in-law that it is still possible to lose their baby?

And did anyone care that the ultrasound was great? Did they want to know if we had thought of names? Has anyone noticed that I am 19 weeks now and the chance of something happening to the baby is SO SMALL?????

Let’s be a little more freaking negative here. Gee, I can’t wait to go visit them next week. At least my parents and grandparents and everyone else we know seems to be excited for us. Kind of lessens the hurt of the inlaws who apparently don’t get excited over ANYTHING.

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