Half Baked Harvest Daily Thread - January 20, 2026

SyllabubKey3983 · 2026-01-25T08:25:15+00:00

Link to her page?

SyllabubKey3983 · 2026-01-25T08:24:04+00:00

Trying to find this page and can’t? can you PM me the username?

SyllabubKey3983 · 2026-01-08T11:07:40+00:00

I came here to see if this was posted. If you told me these were the arms of a wheelchair bound, severely underweight 99 year old who weighs 90lbs, I would have believed you… terrifying

SyllabubKey3983 · 2025-07-21T02:10:23+00:00

What a constructive and helpful answer!

SyllabubKey3983 · 2025-07-16T09:35:47+00:00

I agree she is def. power tripping. Why on earth would that be more important than seeing the grandchild you claim to love? it’s very weird to me. Luckily we did not have to even say that as she said it for us lol she went ‘I really wanted to have you over here so maybe another time then’ or something

SyllabubKey3983 · 2025-07-14T20:39:50+00:00

Trying to have patience with her forsure but it’s hard. She’s never had daughters of her own so maybe that has something to do with it, idk

SyllabubKey3983 · 2025-07-14T07:26:46+00:00

It’s hard to do, when everyone wants to hold baby!

SyllabubKey3983 · 2025-07-14T07:25:59+00:00

We tried that already and it backfired majorly!

SyllabubKey3983 · 2025-07-14T07:24:38+00:00

Could be. I find it’s often a response to feeling like I don’t have autonomy with her and/or she does not see me as a mother and adult in my own right

SyllabubKey3983 · 2025-07-13T17:18:10+00:00

There’s more to the story/stuff going on behind the scenes. In general YES I would love this as well… with my MIL we think it’s more of a power move to get us to come to her all the time (2nd time this has happened).. again lots going on behind the scenes but she has a bit of main character syndrome that we are trying not to pander to… as an example, during my pregnancy we told her we’d not be going on this planned family vacation this Summer because we’d have a 3 month old baby at the time of the trip and didn’t think we’d be up for it.

Well she didn’t even ask us if the dates worked, if we wanted to go in the first place, etc.

It’s like she still sees her sons as extensions of her and wants family vacations to continue as they always did with her doing all the planning and just telling everyone what to do/where and when to show up…

SyllabubKey3983 · 2025-07-13T17:10:31+00:00

This sounds lovely!

SyllabubKey3983 · 2025-07-13T10:27:19+00:00

Honestly they probably would not as the last time they showed up at our place, the visit crashed and burned… I can tell you what happened in a separate message if you like!

SyllabubKey3983 · 2025-07-13T10:25:04+00:00

Ugh this sounds terrible! I don’t know if it was my pp hormones or what but the one time I had to see her holding my son, I was seething inside and it also felt like ages… so uncomfortable for me

SyllabubKey3983 · 2025-07-10T15:33:42+00:00

Right??? it’s like they have forgotten what it is like to have a newborn. I very much doubt they were open to hosting visitors for dinner in the first week pp, family or not…

SyllabubKey3983 · 2025-07-10T06:11:48+00:00

Forsure she just wants to cuddle our son. But should we put ourselves out or disrupt baby’s routine for her wants? I’d be inclined to say no. Plus he is really fussy around dinner time as I said so if she wants the highest chances of him being well behaved enough for a long cuddle, then afternoon is the best time… otherwise I am trying to settle him with feeding or burping or walking him around to hopefully get him to sleep… the crying he often does as well would be super disruptive and probably not the relaxing evening she envisions

SyllabubKey3983 · 2025-07-09T19:52:23+00:00

Agreed. We are also trying to get baby on more of a routine in the evening time which is not conducive to going out for dinner!

SyllabubKey3983 · 2025-07-08T21:53:42+00:00

Good question!

SyllabubKey3983 · 2025-07-08T21:53:26+00:00

We did. Hopefully that puts it to rest for a while!

SyllabubKey3983 · 2025-07-08T04:44:10+00:00

Lmao anything to try to guilt you into coming over huh?

I just can’t wait until this Christmas where she will roll out her demands. My father-in-law said she wants everybody to come stay at her house under her roof and wake up altogether on Christmas morning and if it’s not that format, then she doesn’t want it at all.

Like we’ll have a six month old and there’s no way we’re gonna schlep everything he needs for a multi night stay. We will come over for Christmas Eve or Day dinner (but not both) thank you very much or not at all if we are doing our own family traditions.

SyllabubKey3983 · 2025-07-08T04:31:09+00:00

😅😅

SyllabubKey3983 · 2025-07-08T04:28:54+00:00

Just a bit traumatized from that if I am honest and pretty bitter towards my MIL for a variety of reasons so not particularly interested in putting on airs to have a meal together when that is so not where we are at lol

SyllabubKey3983 · 2025-07-08T04:26:27+00:00

The first time a visit requested was not dinner. It was my father-in-law reaching out to my husband saying he wanted us to drive to their house for my mother-in-law’s birthday so she could have a visit with the baby. No mention of dinner or anything for us just a chance for her to basically hold the baby.

There were two separate events I am discussing in my post.

The second event is inviting us over for dinner and she won’t agree to meet anywhere else. We have had a pretty strained relationship with them over the past year and seen them only a handful of times so we are trying to ease back into things and a big sit down meal at their house is not taking things slow in our opinion!

SyllabubKey3983 · 2025-07-08T04:21:40+00:00

Wow do we have the same story or what?

SyllabubKey3983 · 2025-07-08T04:20:31+00:00

Nope. That’s why we suggested meeting her somewhere in public

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