As many of you already know I am a mother of four children. I have to say that I really enjoy it (most of the time anyway). I have this cousin -in- law who insists on looking down on me for making things for my kids instead of buying them. For example this year me and hubby made all four of our kids costumes, and of course that whore was like"ugh…I would never MAKE a costume.Why didnt you all just buy them?" BITCH. Look…its not that we are pisspoor and cant afford to buy anything. As a matter of fact we probably paid more on the hand made costumes then if we HAD of bought them. She is always doing that. The other day three of my children had halloween parties. I baked some cookies for the parties. She of course calls to brag about the expensive cupcakes she bought for her childs class.UGH!! She does that about their food too. I always pack a lunch for them. OH GOD!! I am just nasty!!! GOD…we are just so poor, and she is just so cool!! Why cant we be so fucking materialistic? (sorry…but i JUST HAD to get this shit off of me.)Can anyone relate to me? OH yeah!! She also put me down for fucking breastfeeding!!!
What an idiot.
Besides, most store bought kids costumes are kind of crummy-not ALL of them, but a lot of them. I’d love to learn to sew-I’m trying to teach myself.
Skyblukat, from what I’ve read – you are a creative, imaginative parent. Everything the cousin-in-law is not.
Pity her. She will have achieved nothing, while you do so much.
Excellent rant, BTW.
Thanks you guys. I agree.She is an idiot GUINASTASIA.
The lunches you make probably taste better anyhow…
Just don’t think about her, she’s an idiot…
Skyblucat, you know what your post says about you?
You’re a good parent who cares more about the experiences and memories your kids have. Your cousin-in-law is either very misguided or very, very sad.
And probably jealous to boot. 
An excellent rant.
Zap!
That’s pretty pathetic … bragging about buying “expensive” cupcakes? Calling you in order to brag about buying expensive cupcakes? :rolleyes:
IMO, your cousin-in-law sounds like she knows you’re a good parent, and flaunts the fact that she spends more money on her kids to compensate.
You know, I hate when the rolleyes thingy drops off the end of the sentence. It always looks so out of place all by itself on the next line. 
Shit!
Skyblucat, you have sooooo many great comebacks you can use.
“Eeeew, you bought one of those cheap, plastic costumes for your kid? I’d rather they have something that fit right and was imaginative.”
or
“Storebought cupcakes? Blech! I can make cookies and cupcakes that taste much better than that. Plus, they don’t have all of those nasty preservatives.”
or
“You don’t pack your kids a lunch? To each her own, but I want to make sure my kids eat something nutritious.”
Of course, you can just smile and nod at her knowing that she is just taking the easy way out of all of these tasks.
BTW, what constitues an “expensive” cupcake?
Well , leave her to slobber over the TV commericials and be a worker bee who is the same as everybody else , bragging about cup cakes that is trying too hard , home made cookies require effort and time to make and are a very nice personal touch , though nobody ever makes cookies for me
Oh, did she, now…?
Based on what I’ve read here, the worst, and yet most appropriate, thing you can do to this …<sorry, the words are too vicious even for the pit>… person is to leave her to stew in her own meritless faeces. She’s her own worst punishment.
Utterly contemptable, she is.
Like the others said, Skyblukat, this woman just sounds jealous, not to mention petty.
I wish I could sew, but I can’t. But I’m a hell of a cook. My kids get homemade treats all the time. I bake cupcakes to take into school when it’s my turn to be snack mom. Good grief - pay for cupcakes? At our store a pack of six store-made ones is something like $3! So you pay about $15 for nasty, stale pastries that the kids probably won’t eat. Ridiculous.
Your kids will look back on this stuff and appreciate the hell out of it. And they’ll do the same for their own kids. You’re setting a great precedent.
Sheri
“What if I were at the grocery store and had to feed the baby? I would NOT want a baby hanging from my tits.” That is what she told me.What a whore.
I would like to add that my wonderful husband did all the work on the costumes.(Except for the simple baby pumpkin one) He is really great isnt he?(he is going to kill me!)I love you Krotchkritter!
Well, based on the tone of what appears to be her usual approach, I’m unconvinced she’d even want a kid hugging her, much less obtaining sustenance and love.
Plenty of women don’t breast feed, for any number of reasons and that’s fine, but anyone who would slam a mother for breastfeeding, simply because she wouldn’t/didn’t, is deserving of… Well, I’m too pissed right now to think up an objective punishment. Be assured that what I’m thinking of right now is nasty, vicious, and brutal. And probably way over-blown.
you simply must bottle that anger 
I just want to know how she thinks store bought cupcakes can compare with home baked cookies.
My mother made a lot of things for my brother and I, sometimes because we didn’t have a lot of money to spare, sometimes because her stuff is just better. I would take a pan of my mother’s cookies (or mine) over store-bought cupcakes ANY day. I don’t care if they were baked by St. Martha herself in the ivory ovens of Heaven, my mother’s cooking is good.
And someday, when I get married, my mother will make my wedding dress. That means a HELL of a lot more to me than any designer store-bought dress ever could. And the things you make for your kids will mean just as much, Skyblukat.
I’m not really angry at your orifice inspector of a cousin-in-law … I just feel sorry for her kids. What a useless, empty, moneywhore mother they have.
I just want to know what school district I have to move to so I’ll be allowed to bring home-made stuff to Michaela’s class. We had her in a Montessori school last year (when I had a job), and I got to make some really nice things for her class whenever they had a celebration (my favorite was the banana muffins). But now, in the public school we have her in, we’re invited to bring in all the goodies we wish, provided they are sealed in their original packaging. Pepperidge Farm goldfish crackers, anyone?