I'm sorry what did you say??

So there are times in ones life when we find ourselves totally speechless due to words coming from another. Now those that know me, know that I am never short of a word or a million. The old verbal diarrhoea thats me. Anyway I had one of those times in my life where I found myself with my mouth dropped open and no words able to come out...

We were up at the Big House for dinner over the Easter weekend. The Big House is the residence of Holly's Grandparents (Farmer Brown's Mum and Dad). Now for some reason they don't seem to be getting the hang of being Grandparents too well. Don't get me wrong they love little Miss Holly to pieces but they have nothing up at their house for her. No toys, no cot/bed for her to sleep in, no chairs for her to sit on, no play mat for her to lie and play on. Holly is normally presented with a scabby old brown towel to lie on the floor on. Holly only has what is in her nappy bag, that I bring, to play with when we go up there. I have stopped dragging all her stuff up there and think that it is about time they came to the party.

Anyway...the usual scabby old brown towel is brought out for Holly to lie on. Only this time Nanny brings out two large square pillows from the media room. Now these are no ordinary pillows...these are the pillows that we normally put our feet up on when we are in there watching rugby etc! Nanny suggests that Holly could be propped up against them on the floor while we eat our dinner. Wasn't too keen on the fact that they were the "feet" pillows, but regardless of this she was placed on the wooden floor and of course she just slid everywhere. She isn't able to sit on her own yet, so everytime she was placed up against the pillow while sitting on the towel she of course just slides everywhere. Adding to the fact that she is really active at the moment she ended up flat on her back on the floor again after wiggling and sqwirming round like she does.

So here it comes...the mouth open wide moment...are you ready for this...you had better sit down...

Nanny speaks up now: "How about we tie her to the dinning chair so that she can sit up at the table with us?"

WTF - was running through my head. Thank god this was one of the few times in my life where I managed to jam the brake on my tongue before I said what I was really thinking!

I managed calmly to say "Umm, no I don't think that is very appropriate. To tie her to a chair. Considering the chair is leather she will probably slide off." To which Nanny replied "Oh well we could get one of the plastic outside chairs and tie her to that instead." Again WTF? "Umm, no I really don't want her tied to anything. I will just hold on to her while I eat my dinner thanks".

Like I said...LOST FOR WORDS!

This comes on top of another incident a couple of days before...

Farmer Brown and I had arranged for Nanny to look after Holly for a couple of hours so that we could go to the movies at the local theatre. Now this is only the second time that we have "alone time" since we had Holly.

We decided we would go on Easter Friday as the shops were shut and we could go shopping on Saturday when they reopened. Friday morning I get a call from Nanny asking what day we were going to the movies. "Um today as we had arranged when we asked you, why?" Nanny: "We want to take our friends out to the coast to look at the waterfall and then stay out there for dinner as that way we can show them the glow worms on our way back to the farm. You could go tomorrow to the movies if you want." Me: "Well we were going to go today as the shops are closed and there isn't much to do. I will have to check and see if the movie is on tomorrow." "Oh it is, I have already checked for you. So I will see you tomorrow then?" Me "Sure whatever."

OMG what grandparent does that? It's not like we ask them all the time to look after Holly. And the "friends" they wanted to take out to the coast...well they are the same friends that are here every other weekend which of course means they could go out there any number of times when they are here. When these friends come to stay they are normally here for 4 or 5 days so plenty of time to do this. I just don't get it!

We didn't end up going to the movies on either days. Don't think that I will be asking them again to look after Holly in a hurry! Felt really let down and disappointed. During conversation at the infamous dinner, I asked how their trip out to the coast went. I know naughty but I just couldn't help myself. Granddad tells me he didn't even go, as he didn't really want to since they had only been out there doing the same things a week ago and that he gets car sick on the windy road out there! Nanny then tells me that they didn't end up staying for dinner out there or looking at the glow worms and were home later in the afternoon! WTF?! Holy Crap Batman!

Yep yep yep...speechless again! I am surprised my head didn't explode off my shoulders!

Then just to top that night off I was told several times after dinner what a mean Mummy I was...why you ask?

Well I wanted to show them how Holly can roll over now, as they haven't seen her do that yet. I put her down on one of the plush mats that I have in the nappy bag for her to lie on when at visitors places. I put one of her favourite toys, also in the nappy bag, just out of her reach so that she can grab out for it and roll over to show her grandparents just how cool and clever she is. Well how wrong could I be. Nanny grabs up the toy and puts it in front of Holly while telling me how mean I am for doing that. How would I feel I she put things out of my reach so I couldn't get to it? WTF? (man I have said that a lot in the blog. Sorry!)

In my mind I am saying "just walk away, just walk away!" I must have changed a bit since I became a Mum, because I would normally just have lost the plot at someone saying something like that to me. Holly has mallowed me it would seem!

Right I think I can put that behind me now. Man it feels better to get that off my chest! Sorry if your ears are bleeding! haha!

Lets hope the only reasons in the future that I am left speechless are times when my amazing little girl does things that blow my mind!