Yes I have a 10 year old who wants to constantly talk to me about sharks like he's on coke or something
This is my expectation as well. My wife is adamant about breaking the cycle because he was a shitty dad too. My younger one already ignores my FIL because he knows he sucks. For whatever reason, my older one is big into getting his affirmation/affection.
church freak FIL texted my wife that we’re doing great raising our six month old (thanks?) but we could do more for her spiritually
gotta expose them to as much Jesus as possible while they're too young to be molested or murdered by the church
it was really cool when we were at my in laws for dinner last year and we bowed our head's to pray and my 4 year old yells "HEY WE DON'T DO THAT IN MY HOUSE"
My FIL is the worst at having phone calls. Seriously a one question ask takes a ten minute phone call he basically starts out breaking things down in his own mind on the phone. He takes 10 second pauses between words. He tells me all the time to call him Instead of texting. No thank you sir. He sometimes Will leave me two minute audio messages just talking to himself.
My FIL butt dials me every couple weeks or so. I have no idea how one makes that mistake so often with an iphone.
My FIL is an all around MAGA asshole, but one nice thing is that he showed me Mighty Trains on Smithsonian channel and I like that. Carry on.
The in laws left Wednesday. It’s been a nice final few days of vacation. My wife tells me this today while we are floating in the ocean: You know how my dad has been saying he doesn’t like being in the sun because of previous melanoma? I don’t remember him going through this so I asked my mom. She said he went to the derm, got checked out/tested, etc, but it all came back clean and has no idea why he still brings it up. My FIL had fake skin cancer and no one will correct him when he talks about it.
My brother in law (wife’s sister’s husband) had a polyp and tells people he had colon cancer. Really pissed my wife off because my (and his) FIL actually had colon cancer.
My FIL had the family over last night for dinner. While he was manning the grill, he told me he is fed up with how small bratwurst have gotten over the years and he’s now considering writing a letter to the company to air his grievances. Might be time for him to pick up a new hobby, like trains.
You missed a good opportunity to put your arm around him and say “maybe they’re the same size, and it’s just that our appetites have gotten bigger over the years.”
My FIL gave a patio umbrella for our new finished patio. Nice gesture and appreciated. He also wanted to make sure the umbrella is stable, so he put a pvc pipe in a 5 gallon bucket of concrete to serve as a base. This thing is a complete unit and weighs at least 50 lbs. I have a townhouse so my backyard is small so now I have to devote corner of our yard for this thing that can barely be moved. My wife won’t want to get rid of it since he made it for us.
did you tell him they make umbrella bases that serve just fine and your backyard won't look like a construction site.
My SIL is 40 and dating a 32 year old. They are both very liberal. I overheard this while my wife was FaceTiming her parents… FIL: Don’t get me started on <your sister>. Somehow I raised a Marxist leech that is hooked up with a loser just looking for a mommy. She’s a high school teacher and he’s a software engineer for Google. Leeches and losers. I wish I was making this stuff up.