Happy new year

I hope you celebrated well. I did not overly enjoy it which I am sad about. It was the last Christmas and New Years Eve before our little one joins us but I haven't been able to see my family, we had to carry my mother-in-law around with us and she did nothing but whinge.

After endless arguments between my husband and her she put her hearing aid in so we didn't have to scream all night. But the food was too spicy, the restaurant (which is a very good one) not as good as the one we went to before (service tends to be a little slower when you have a fully booked restaurant instead of one with half the tables busy), in the pub the music was too loud and she didn't like it and from about 10pm she kept going on about going home because it is too boring. Normally she would have drunk a lot and probably been in a better mood, but since she fell down the stairs having drunk too much not that long ago and ended up in an ambulance and A&E we did keep tabs on that.

It didn't help that I felt quite emotional all evening - no doubt pregnancy hormones. The meal was nice and I enjoyed the music, but in overall it was a boring evening with both me and my husband seriously pissed off with her. And that's sad.

She is a nice woman but unfortunately she likes 'being unhappy' at times and enjoys whingeing about everything. Together with telling the same stories 20 times a day and having already spent all Christmas with her that was just too much. We are building an annex for her so she can live on her own but with us. It makes sense and I agreed to it. She's nearly 80 and it is sensible to have her close by since her husband died last year. But right now that thought terrifies me. I'll be at home all day with little one. I hope she's not going to drive me nuts. I won't have any privacy in the garden anymore, but it is more the thought of her constantly popping in. I hope she won't, but I am a little worried right now. Probably just my hormones as I said. It's not as if we just agreed that last night. And it can't harm to have a living in babysitter.

By the way, I had a call from the doctors yesterday. My iron levels are still too low so I got some more iron tablets.