I am acting entitled right?
My Brother had hernia surgery today and my parents are on their way down to Bro's house to help out for up to 2 weeks because he had surgery, has a 4 yr old, a dog and his wife works. He won't be able to drive. So my Parents (I tried putting my POO but really. really.) have dropped everything to go and help. Not my circus, not my monkeys.
I would say hire help, ask the church (that he is the youth pastor of) but that's just me.
(There is minor background floating around about my Brother and SIL somewhere but anyway)
In talking to my Mom about their last trip (they went to Nova Scotia for a week), she told about the trip to NC to help Bro out. I am pretty sure you could hear my CBF over the phone, but whatever.
I suggested meeting them (in my mind just my parents) in the Asheville area to go apple picking, which we were already planning to do, just haven't nailed down when. So, I brought that up, saying that we'd stay in a hotel in the Asheville area over night and it'd be great to see them, etc.
Mom turned it around into "well I'm sure we can take DNi out of preschool..." To which I said "No, don't change her schedule any more than it already will be, and I was thinking at the end of your trip, when you are heading back up north".
I haven't even suggested they come visit us for a few days (they would be able to stay on campus, we'd pay, not in our home as we have a cat and Dad is allergic) as it would only add the time to get to us (about 4 hours) and not add any time to their trip home (just taking a different set of highways, that are much prettier than I95).
Ok, on to the entitled part - We haven't seen my parents since March, they say my Bro and his family over the summer (when my entire family was at my parents home all together on a trip that was planned in the Spring which no one told us about, I assume because we are poor and they assume we wouldn't have been able to come, which is probably true but we would have at least like to have been asked) and now they are (again, there is more background here) dropping everything to go stay with them and see my DNi for two weeks.
So is it HORRIBLY ENTITLED to think that *maybe* the thought of, "wow, I'm already in the south, why not swing on over to see my other child and grandchild" would be a consideration?
I feel like it is, and I just need to get over myself, put myself in a TO and deal with the fact that they just aren't that into me.
*I tried adding a Tl;Dr and it was just as long.
ETA: Gahh, it's back to eating my paragraphs again! I put them back in, but I don't know if that is where they were originally.