This might be a long one, pre-warning.
Even though Ellie is a mess, she is the cutest bun. I walked into the kitchen this morning and she was standing against the door of her cabinet waiting for pellets or to be let out. So I let her out and gave her some pellets. Now she's in the kitchen doing something. I think I'm going to go sit in there with her in a moment.
I didn't clean her mess up! ahaha. How bad is that, its been there for days but I was so busy this weekend and then yesterday I was tending to chickens and then last night I was totally exhausted AND I had to go to the bank at like 9:30 at night. My husband didn't get home until like 8 and my son took a really late nap and didn't wake up until like 7:30 pm, because he had a really long day Sunday. So I went to the bank and at home and pretty much went to bed, I didn't feel well.
So my husband put my son in bed while I was at the bank. I know, I know, it was SO late for him to be going to bed. But his regular schedule is WAY off because of being at grandma's house. Anyway, so my husband got him dressed for bed. Now, when I fold his clothes, I fold his sets of pj's together in a bundle so I don't have to search for tops and bottoms. Well, my hub, unbundled the bundle to get the shirt and didn't put the pants on AJ! I went to change AJ this morning and was like, those pants don't match! He unbundled! ahahaha. Silly man!
So as many of you know, my FIL has some mental issues. He's crazy and a jerk and loves his prescription meds. Well, this passed weekend, its reached a new level of crazy. Its gotten really bad. My MIL thinks that she needs to put him in an assisted living facility and sell their house. He is confusing AM with PM and thought that I left AJ at their house for 36 hours and called us at 10 on Sunday morning and yelled at my husband, because he thought it was 10 at night!
The whole time we were there Sunday, he kept asking my MIL if they were doing anything that day, if anyone was coming over. He asked, no joke, 15 times in a few hours. He's hallucinating conversations he's having with people. He thought that he talked to my MIL about buying a car and he didn't, but he bought the car anyway. He didn't want us to rent a car so be bought a car for us to drive to Pittsburgh. WHAT?! He thought that he talked to my MIL about ordering a pool table, he didn't. But he doesn't remember if he ordered it or not, so he may or may not have. I guess we'll find out soon if there is a pool table. But if he did order one, it wouldn't be like a cheap pool table, its going to be a slate top billiard table and expensive. I told my MIL that she needed to limit his money limit to like $300 a week! hahahaha. He obviously has access to TOO much money! And access to the internet.
On Sunday he thought it was my son's birthday, thats not until June. He didn't know what month or day it was! Its getting so sad. Like we kind of kid around about it, but the sh*t got real. We tried the whole, go over there and make sure he's okay and hang out with him thing, but that didn't work. He got mad and then my husband was exhausted from going over there and helping him and whatever. But we have a life and can't uproot our whole lives because my FIL won't take his meds right! Ya know? So my suggestion, which hasn't changed in months, is that my stupid SIL comes and lives with him and helps him out. Her and her boyfriend broke up (awww tear *sticks tongue out* its so sad! boo-hoo) they dated for like 6 months. She's 27 and works at a craft store in Chicago, she has NOTHING going on in her life, so taking care of her parent should be top of the list! But no, she hates him and is rude and nasty to him, its ridiculous. So once again it falls to us because my MIL is the definition of an enabler. If you look it up, my MIL's picture is there. So she won't make anyone do anything, she won't make my SIL come down here, he won't make my FIL come up there, she won't put him in a home. SO whats going to happen is he's going to kill someone or kill himself or have a heart attack and die in the house and my husband will find him. He has a porcine valve in his heart and its reaching its expiration date and he doesn't take care of himself.
So thats what we dealt with this weekend. It was rough and its been stressful and sad and we're all kind of at a loss. Well, I'm not, i have a great solution but no one listens to me. LOL
Sorry that was so long. I like to tell you guys this stuff because I think I may be one of the younger ones in the group and you guys are more knowledgeable and wise than I and you guys always help me and tell me that I'm not wrong its them! hahah. Just kidding. What would you guys do about your FIL if it was him? Are there any suggestions I could make to my MIL? I know what I would do, but she and I are different! She's a pacifist and I'll pass a fist across your face. I have very little patience for this kind of thing, I am very caring and I will take care of you all day everyday, but I will complain about it. But right now, its my sister in law, that brat. Ugh, my husband and I just went on a rampage on her the other night, because its such BS.
Anyway, and now I'm done. Sorry this was so long! Ugh.