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s-leary replied to your post “oh good lord”
What kind of fucking monster—? The kids were promised cake! Do they KNOW how much cake means at that age?!
I mean, the cake is in our house, we can eat it at any time, but like. The point was to see everybody by the limited means available, and deciding we’re just not gonna have it be a thing so you’ll have to just eat birthday cake for no reason by yourselves– I mean, the kids would be okay? ish? because they’re getting cake? but they had been promised seeing Cousins and Oma and Opa and it would be really weird and strange to go back on that when there’s… basically… zero setup? in that? It’d almost be *more* understandable to cancel an in-person party!!
Anyway, MathMom’s sibling got over her snit and re-allowed it and rescheduled it and then, ha ha, after coordinating a time and us getting ourselves all set for that time, MM’s phone went off 24 minutes early and I had to go find her and get the table set up in such a hurry the kids almost missed the whole thing because they were basically blowing out the candles as the phone connected.
It’s goddamn hard to believe they actually give a shit about MM when they keep doing that shit to her. I only happened to be near her phone because she had it plugged in so its not-great battery would have a chance to charge up, and she was off somewhere else entirely in the house, and you bet your ass she was keeping a close eye on the time and would have come back five minutes before the scheduled time to set everything up and would’ve then had to explain to her kids that she’d missed the call because they’d jerked her around and done it early.
I THINK that this is partly retaliation because this same sibling tried to set up a virtual tea party sometime a couple of weeks ago, and MM said politely oh no I don’t think I can make that work with my kids’ schedule at the time you want, it’s okay, please do it without me and tell me again next time, I’ll try to work it in better then. And then, sure enough, while we were in the middle of something else, her phone went off and it was them with the virtual tea party hangout, and MM just didn’t pick up the phone because, as she’d said, she wasn’t available, we really were in the middle of something. I bet you ANYTHING this is partly punishment for that.
sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “oh good lord”
Oh, what the actual fuck, people. Give SOME thought to the rest of the world outside your bubble. Zoom sucks but you promised this so FOLLOW THROUGH.
And also, like, ALL IT IS is a Zoom, it’s not like your migraine or your overblown sense of drama is going to be all that put out by letting your sister’s kids watch your kid over the phone. The parents barely talked, Oma interviewed each of the grandkids and they all fidgeted wildly and were excited and ate a lot of sugar and that was that.
grrlcookery replied to your post “oh good lord”
Please imagine me crounched over the zoom camera, hissing at asshat family like an enraged little gargoyle or something
Ha, good image, but also, like, please understand I spent the entire Zoom call making faces across the table because I wasn’t in the shot, so basically I *was* silently hissing like a gargoyle through like half of it.
I do like her family, genuinely, as people, but as a collective, they fucking suck, and anyway, she’s mine now and they can’t have her.
clotpoleofthelord replied to your post “today’s installment of the mouths of babes”
Thomas would LOVE to write letters to them, if you’re looking for more penpals!
oh sure! That would be fun too! oh I haven’t written back to you yet, have I! It’s all gotten very disorganized, I had a list for a while and then I lost the list and now am just sending shit at random and it’s very incomplete. Whoops!

s-leary replied to your post “oh good lord”
What kind of fucking monster—? The kids were promised cake! Do they KNOW how much cake means at that age?!
I mean, the cake is in our house, we can eat it at any time, but like. The point was to see everybody by the limited means available, and deciding we’re just not gonna have it be a thing so you’ll have to just eat birthday cake for no reason by yourselves– I mean, the kids would be okay? ish? because they’re getting cake? but they had been promised seeing Cousins and Oma and Opa and it would be really weird and strange to go back on that when there’s… basically… zero setup? in that? It’d almost be *more* understandable to cancel an in-person party!!
Anyway, MathMom’s sibling got over her snit and re-allowed it and rescheduled it and then, ha ha, after coordinating a time and us getting ourselves all set for that time, MM’s phone went off 24 minutes early and I had to go find her and get the table set up in such a hurry the kids almost missed the whole thing because they were basically blowing out the candles as the phone connected.
It’s goddamn hard to believe they actually give a shit about MM when they keep doing that shit to her. I only happened to be near her phone because she had it plugged in so its not-great battery would have a chance to charge up, and she was off somewhere else entirely in the house, and you bet your ass she was keeping a close eye on the time and would have come back five minutes before the scheduled time to set everything up and would’ve then had to explain to her kids that she’d missed the call because they’d jerked her around and done it early.
I THINK that this is partly retaliation because this same sibling tried to set up a virtual tea party sometime a couple of weeks ago, and MM said politely oh no I don’t think I can make that work with my kids’ schedule at the time you want, it’s okay, please do it without me and tell me again next time, I’ll try to work it in better then. And then, sure enough, while we were in the middle of something else, her phone went off and it was them with the virtual tea party hangout, and MM just didn’t pick up the phone because, as she’d said, she wasn’t available, we really were in the middle of something. I bet you ANYTHING this is partly punishment for that.
sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “oh good lord”
Oh, what the actual fuck, people. Give SOME thought to the rest of the world outside your bubble. Zoom sucks but you promised this so FOLLOW THROUGH.
And also, like, ALL IT IS is a Zoom, it’s not like your migraine or your overblown sense of drama is going to be all that put out by letting your sister’s kids watch your kid over the phone. The parents barely talked, Oma interviewed each of the grandkids and they all fidgeted wildly and were excited and ate a lot of sugar and that was that.
grrlcookery replied to your post “oh good lord”
Please imagine me crounched over the zoom camera, hissing at asshat family like an enraged little gargoyle or something
Ha, good image, but also, like, please understand I spent the entire Zoom call making faces across the table because I wasn’t in the shot, so basically I *was* silently hissing like a gargoyle through like half of it.
I do like her family, genuinely, as people, but as a collective, they fucking suck, and anyway, she’s mine now and they can’t have her.
clotpoleofthelord replied to your post “today’s installment of the mouths of babes”
Thomas would LOVE to write letters to them, if you’re looking for more penpals!
oh sure! That would be fun too! oh I haven’t written back to you yet, have I! It’s all gotten very disorganized, I had a list for a while and then I lost the list and now am just sending shit at random and it’s very incomplete. Whoops!
