Being Disappointed

Remind me never to promise my kids something and not follow trough with it. I hate it and it's just one disappointment after another.


I'm still waiting for my parents to come meet Squirt.


The first excuse was because we were living with my in-laws. Ok, I get that.


The next excuse was waiting until we unpacked. Which isn't completely done but it's done enough, and we don't have boxes laying around because the ones we still need to go through are in the shop/garage out back. So they're not in the way.


Now we were planning on them coming down while I'm gone. Granted, even if they wanted to come down for just a few days. I was excited, it was to help out Big E, and I've been telling Little E that they're coming down. Plus, Squirt will be almost 7 months old by they time they come down and finally meet him.


Plus, it's easier for them to come here than it is for me to travel with a 3 year old and infant and their car seats. We even offered to pay for the plane tickets.


Now we're just getting the run around. Shame on me for thinking anything would change this time around. They always do this. Just tell me you don't want to come down, don't get my hopes up every single time.


I'm getting the excuse now that they don't want to leave my sister and her family in the house that long. Then they'll see how the house looks. I know what'll happen next is that they'll wait till last minute and the ticket prices will double then we'll get the excuse that it's too much money.


Every time.


I'm half tempted to buy 2 plane tickets and tell them they have these tickets and if they want to come down it's there for them. Then see if they bother.


Except we don't have the money for that.


All I know is after this time I'm completely done. Now it's going to start affecting my children. Maybe when Little E was younger he didn't understand, but he does now and it's not fair of me to get him excited to see them because they promised to come and last minute they're not. I guess I can save him from that by just not telling him so, but oh well.


I give up.