I have so many friends that have babies around the same age as my boys and all they do is try and one up each other with milestones. It's really annoying. I see it primarily on my Facebook. One mother posts that their daughter can drink milk (no more formula), then immediately after another mother says their son can walk, their daughter can say "elmo", bs like that really gets under my skin. I post when the boys do things, sure, but I am honest. These women seem to only be saying these things so that they can one up each other... "let's think of the most amazing thing for a 10 month old to be doing and just say our kid is doing that for attention". I have had a friend say their daughter can say like ten different words. We then had a play date... you know what that baby said? Not a single word. Go figure... and she was at my house for like six hours, you'd think she would say something in that span of time.
It also bothers me because it is misleading at times. I hear that my friend's 8 month old is walking and my 11 month old twins cannot walk on their own yet... It makes me feel like I am doing something wrong. And I told my mother that and of course she said "All babies are different", and I hear that everywhere I go/look, but I don't care... I am still going to worry when someone with a younger child one up's me! :)
Soon I will post a picture with each blog, just currently my camera is at the repair shop. ;) Until then, please continue to enjoy my words.

So, my in-laws and I have been having many issues since the boys were born. They don't respect our decisions and choices with what we do with the boys. They wanted us to take them to a "tree planting ceremony" in remembrance of my husband's two year old nephew that passed away when I was 8 months pregnant with the twins. The boys were only a month old and had actually just gotten over a cold... His family went literally crazy because we said we weren't going to make it. Said we didn't respect the deceased.
Since then, it's been thing after thing to make things awkward. The most recent thing occurred when we were living in my husband's father's second house. He was the worst landlord EVER. He wouldn't fix any problem, instead he would tell us all about his money troubles, as if we gave a crap. And at one point our kitchen sink had been broken for over two weeks and he finally came to fix it with this high and mighty attitude and trying to be friendly with me, unknowing that I have been washing all of our dishes and bottles in the freaking bathtub for two weeks and I was not in a friendly mood about the sink. He got entirely bent out of shape over my "attitude" and actually kicked all four of us out. We then moved far far away from them. Luckily. And with the hopes that we would never have to deal with them ever again. At least for a long time.
But of course the boys have to turn ONE... and that is a celebration... everyone must be apart of. I didn't want to invite his family over... at all. But I do want the boys to have family in their life. So my husband and I were chatting about it all and we decided to invite them over... before we could, mysteriously, Erin's father calls ME (which he never does.. he always talks to Erin). He asks me if they can come see the boys and "there are no hard feelings".... that I suppose was his attempt to apologize to me. All is well, but I swear if there is another stupid dramatic situation, as there always seems to be, it's all over again... maybe this time Erin will see that they aren't the cool people he once knew.
At times I feel responsible for their actions... if I weren't so blunt and forthcoming with information, they would probably have never hated me... but now, now that I say what I want and don't give a shoot what anyone things anymore... they have a big problem with me. Not changing... nope, I am not changing for these people.... I can play the "Fake Card", and play nice... for the boys sake, but I am not changing my ways.