I shouldn't complain but guh man *rolls eyes* Warning whingeing inside.
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So for the first time since I had Squiggy (almost 8 months) my mother in law (who lives in the same town) is over here playing and taking care of him while I try to get some work done.

It is generous of her to give up a day to give me a break. She certainly didn't have to - it was entirely her choice. I am very grateful for the gesture.

There are a couple of things however driving me a bit over the edge.

1) She calls him Ellie-kun. He doesn't respond to this because we call him Elliot or Elliot Mason. Or Chibi (little one) or Squiggy. She sees him for a couple of hours once a week if that so there is no way he is going to react to that even if she says it 100 times. Which she does. In vain.

Maybe it shouldn't bug me as much as it does but it's possibly linked to the whole not really listening to me in regards to anything to do with him.

2) I'm actually a bit well odd when it comes to cleanliness. I like things clean. Um really clean. So it really irked me when she went hunting for something to clean when he had his nap. She scrubbed the inside of the kitchen sink pipe and behind the washing machine because those were the only places she could find something to wipe up.

I'm chanting to myself not to care, that she is just eager to help, but the little demon on my other shoulder is taking it as a slight that I am keeping her grandchild in squalor.

We have 4 or 5 hours still to go with this experiment. Wish me luck.