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11-22-2012 at 7:48 PM
rsideemd
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H's Family Drove Me Insane Today

OK, so it's obviously LO's first Thanksgiving and the first time she has been around a crowd of people. Thanksgiving at his grandmother's place consists of roughly 20 people. I've been dreading today for a while now and what I assumed would happen did. She was overwhelmed with the people, noise, and getting passed around. We spent the day in my H's grandmother's bedroom trying to calm her down and get her to take her nap. Calming her down wasn't too terribly difficult, but she refused to take her nap. My H got mad at his family for not being "quieter" when I told them it was upsetting her and sat outside for about 60% of the day.

I can understand that they didn't want to tone down the volume, but this is what gets me... I got NO sympathy for having a newborn. While in the backroom, I overheard everyone talking about how much she was crying, how she didn't want to calm down, and how they don't understand why she got upset. Gotta love being talked about when you're in the next room, And to make things worse, I brought her back out so everyone could see her when she calmed down. She was smiling and laughing (being her usual self). His grandmother commented on how sweet she was and how she was smiling instead of crying. That's when my H's cousin said under her breath "finally!" 

I know it probably doesn't sound like a big deal to other people, but you would think people who have had kids would understand. It really upset me to spend Thanksgiving listening to family talk about me. 

OK, my rant's over with... hope everyone else enjoyed their first Thanksgiving with their little ones. 


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11-22-2012 at 8:10 PM
beckcour
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I totally understand.  DD did the same thing.  We both have divorced families so we had to go to two dinners today (more tomorrow).  She also got overwhelmed by the noise and being passed around.  My grandma loves to butt in with every piece of crazy, old-fashioned advice she can come up with and my brothers (who don't have any kids and have no idea what they're talking about) love to tell me to keep her quiet.  I do my best to let it roll off my shoulders.

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