So I get a phone call yesterday from OH's Mum (who I get on really well with) and she wants to know if she can take the kids out for a meal tonight as she didn't see them at Easter (it was BM's weekend) and would we like to go as well. She'd like to treat us all. So I ask OH if we have any plans etc for tonight. Nope no plans. So yep we'd love to come too that would be lovely. I didn't finish work til later than I originally thought ( I'm a nanny so my hours are very flexible) so I meet them at the restaurant, They've all already ordered, OH has ordered for me as he knows what I like. I walk into the restaurant to behold SD on her iPad and SS on OH's phone. This meal was supposed to be so that they could see their nanny and have a chat and a catch up and general quality time with her. Are they talking to her? No. Are they listening to her? No. Of course not because OH allowed SD to bring her iPad which they both know fully well I would not have allowed. (I'm big on manners), and of course SS felt left out so OH gave him his phone which he doesn't put down until 5 mins after the food arrives and I kick OH under the table to take off him. Brilliant so that pisses me off before I've even sat down. Then SD starts to comb her hair with the spare FORK off the table when she's finished her food!! I mean she's 11 not 3. Then while Nanny is still eating her food SD starts fingering it all on her plate and moving her bread around and smelling it. Then she makes a massive deal out of having a pudding because she's been so well behaved! Once she's finished her pudding she starts to mix her let over ice cream with everyone's drinks, (some hadn't been finished), salt, pepper, and sugar. Again 11 NOT 3! Then Nanny gets her purse out to pay and SD goes through it pulling out cash, coins, cards, receipts, everything and flashing it about for the whole world to see. I whispered to OH at this point because I'd had enough, should she really be going through people's purses? I get ignored! Cheers! Then SD starts to talk about how she ran down OH's phone battery because she was playing with it on the way home from school. I had a thought I text him around home time asking if we were still going to the restaurant and what time should I meet them, and was I meeting at home or restaurant. I ask OH if he got it? No. I show him the text on my phone. It's been read. He looks on his phone. She's only bloody deleted it! Now I'm seething.
Anyway OH did absolutely F*** all telling off or anything to the kids and I'm supposed to be taking a step back to try to regain the relationship with them which Is why I didn't step in (pretty sure my tongue is bleeding) and now in in a terrible mood, with the whole weekend ahead. Joy!!
Sorry for the rant ladies... Just embarrassed and frustrated!