If you read the issue below about my daughter and her "aunt" who is the same age... here is the update.

I let myself calm down for a day or so and then it just so happened that my MIL called me to talk. She had heard (through her daughter) that we are moving, so she wanted the scoop. Well, the conversation didn't seem comfortable, so I finally said, "can we talk about something for a moment?" and she informed me that she didn't have much time, but to go ahead. I said that I wanted to let her know mom-to-mom what had happened on the phone the other day between our daughters. Well, I was very calm and democratic about the whole thing, even just saying that my daughter was hurt and I know that they are such good friends we should not allow this type of thing to continue. Well... I had barely gotten those words out when she stops and says, "WELL. While we are talking about hurt feelings - the American Girl Place."  I said, Okay... to which she starts in on the whole day. She said she and E (her daughter) should have been invited and how dare we come into HER house and be all excited about this special thing we were doing without E. She said she was VERY hurt by not being invited and that E was even more upset that she could not go that day. Well... I then explained to her that we had considered inviting them, but there were no more tickets available for that time since we had scheduled this day back in August!!! AUGUST people! It just so happened that there were events that made us have to be at their home that weekend anyway, otherwise we were just going to meet my sister-in-law Cassie and her hubby in NYC that day for our tea at the AG place. This was just something we had planned to be special between the girls and their Aunt Cassie! The girls are so close to their aunt Cassie since they lived with us at one time when they were first married. They are all "girlie girls" and just really enjoy being around each other. Besides that, E doesnt even like AG dolls, doesn't own and AG doll and when my girls bring their dolls (with extras) to play with E when we visit, she says she just doesn't want to play with them and basically pushes them aside to do other things. Thats FINE if she doesn't like them, but then WHY would she want to go to the AG Mecca?

Anyway... I apologized for hurting their feelings but tried to explain that we couldn't get more tickets even if we had thought they wanted to come.

Then... I didn't get an apology about E's behavior on the phone the previous night. I let it go and didnt bring it up again.

Then today, three phone calls within 2 hours that we ignored since my daughter did not want to chat, but finally I made her call them back since we wanted to be above all of that. Well, E says "Sorry about saying "is that all", I meant like 'are you done telling me' because I thought you were still thinking." That is SUCH a lie. This is what E does. She manipulates the situation and twists her words to get out of trouble. She says, "Is THAT ALL?!?" and then twist's it into "...is that the end of your list?"

I am so frustrated by this whole thing. Now I feel like I am supposed to call and apologize to E for hurting her feelings the day we went to tea, but honestly... I am not sorry. Not about the feelings, about sometimes people get to do things that you are not invited to do - thats life. My daughter isnt in her uncle's wedding coming up  and E is. E gets to do ALL kinds of stuff that my kids don't get to do... and one other time we were there E and her brothers left every night for some soccer camp at their church and my kids were not invited. It just wasn't an issue!

Thanks for listening to my vent... maybe I will come up with something funny for the next post.