It began when my son decided to wed. Her family was NOT going to help pay for it. Because we had the money we offered but I got told to butt out. Yet offered my home for my DIL to host a party for her bridesmaids and mother to make things for the wedding. They did not ask but consumed alcohol at my house and one of the bridesmaid nearly burned down my house. Upon arriving back at my house the next morning, I came home to an uncleaned kitchen to which my son offered to clean. The wedding was lovely but 45 minutes late due to bride. And guess who got to clean up the whole thing. Yep! My son had to pay for a DJ at the last minute HER mother found on FACEBOOK at 10 oclock the night before the wedding. The first grand baby is born and despite our DIL saying at our dinner table NO one will be allowed to visit the hospital after the baby is born, my son called to say can you come watch the baby so I can help her get a shower. Relunctantly we went. Almost 13 months later they are about to deliver the 2nd gran and my DIL posts on FACEBOOK, "I can't believe I let someone (for the sake of keeping the peace) hold my 2 day old baby after they said something about my face being swollen after 23 hours of labor." For the record I nor my husband said any such thing. Friends and family that seen the post were floored and deeply disappointed. I was so hurt that I felt I must confront her to find out if she meant that post for me. Weeks before this post she had posted an unsavorly remark that I had ask her to take down. To which I was unfriended and block from her SOCIAL media accounts. My birthday was also that week. Guess who did NOT tell me happy birthday. I might add, MOST of her time at our house is spent on her phone engaging in social media but not be social to us. So when I confronted my DIL she replied, I will neither deny or admit it was for you and I didn't expect you would say anything. I then ask her to clear the air, lets try and put our differences behind us and have a relationship. I open the door and gave her the option of talking or leaving. SHE LEFT. I cried for days. After the birth of the second baby she proceeded to post on FACEBOOK her THANKS to her family's support naming each one for their part, including her husband (my son) and her doctor. Guess who did NOT get mentioned. Us, all the while keeping the first born child for 4 days. I have never cried so hard! I do NOT feel like any of this was deserved. We have helped them in countless ways, with NO motives behind it. We know that raising a family on one salary can be a challenge. So financially being strapped or barely making it, we well understand. We have done the things we have because we can and want to. But rarely get thanks from the DIL. I have prayed about how to handle this situation and I have all but given up. I know that God has the answer and I have ask for forgiveness and am trying to put it past me.
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