UUGH...Sunday

We started off with a fairly decent morning. My niece's 1st b-day party was early in the afternoon, I made a pasta salad. The weather was supposed to be beautiful and we were ready for a good time.

My husband wakes up and makes a call to his daughters mother and asked her if she could drop her off. Well, of course not. She can't help out with anything.

Then the drama began................................. Apparently my step-daughter told her mother that I made "Beer Slushies" for her and "Z" and that she didn't drink hers but "Z" drank his. My husband said that, that was a serious accusation, that his daughter was lying and he was 100% sure that it never happened. He told me of the accusation while on the phone with the mom and I said it wasn't true. The mother didn't believe him and continued to run her nasty mouth. I told my husband that it must of been when we made Root Beer Slushies with the Slurpee Machine. I was thoroughly disgusted by the whole thing. My husband left to go get his daughter and he was sure pissed off. He said he talked to her on the way back to the house and she did say that was what she told her mom!! This is what I call smack in the face #1..

He came back and I still was a little irritated. A 7 1/2 years old should really know the difference between Root Beer and Beer. I was so annoyed that it took all I had to go to this party and not to go off about it.

We get to the party and we had a lot of fun. There was about 30 people. family and close friends. The kids played in the pool and I help my sister-in-law out getting food out. It went pretty smooth for the most part.

This is smack in the face #2...

My step daughter came outside with a bouquet of flowers, looked at me, didn't say a word and kept on going. I never thought anything of it until I went in the house. I saw all of the ladies with a flower from the same bouquet my step daughter had. I commented on how pretty it was and one of the ladies said "Oh, didn't you get one? She was supposed to hand them out to all the ladies."

I said "Umm..nope."

She said she would tell her to give me one and I told her no, that it was fine. She insisted so I stood in the hall, waiting to use the bathroom. So as I am waiting I hear my one of my nieces calling my name and my step daughter telling her no. The bickered back and forth and finally my niece finds me gives it to me, I said thanks and then my Mother In Law stepped in. She said to my niece "You should let "D" give it to her"

My MIL takes it from me and gives it to her granddaughter and said "Ok honey, you give to Ann Marie." Well needless to say she just stood there with a blank look on her face. She didn't say a word just stood there twirling the flower in her hand with no intention of giving it to me.

My sister in law was disgusted and said to her "What is your problem, give it to her."

My mother in law said" It's ok, "D" you can give it to her."

I spoke up and said "Nope, that is ok. I don't want it and she had no intentions of giving it to me anyways.

My MIL looked confused and I said "My niece wanted to give it to me but my step daughter made it loud and clear that she had no intentions of giving it to me. I stood here and listened to them argue about it. Thanks anyways, but I don't want it."

My MIL said " No, take it, they were supposed to hand them out to the ladies."

I replied "NO...I don't want it. Let's drop the subject. You can't make kids do something they don't want to. If she does not want me to have it, by golly, I don't want it!"

Maybe I was childish... but kids know what they are doing. Just like on Mothers Day...My husband forced her to say Happy Mother's Day to me and I told him the same thing. "Don't make her do it, she knows it's Mother's Day, if she wanted to say it she would have." My husband tried to make up an excuse and I told him to leave it alone.