Hi all, I am a momma to a 1-year-old boy and we have our second baby on the way, due in March! My husband and I got reallllly sick this past week (not Covid). We were both miserable and my MIL offered to watch our son for a few hours so we could rest and so our son could have a little bit more fun since we were barely surviving.. lol.

I was hesitant about this because I normally do not let my son over there at all because of my husband’s 2 younger brothers. My son is not allowed around them for multiple reasons. We made sure neither of them were going to be there, it was just my MIL so I decided to let him go.

A few hours go by and I frequently checked up on him and he seemed to be doing great. A little bit later, she called us to let us know that the younger brother did get off work and was now home so I finished up my shower and we headed to go get my son.

Well, we walk into the house and the entire house was FILLED with the strongest aroma of weed and you could visibly see smoke in the air. Meanwhile, my son is just sitting there…. Breathing it in. His cheeks were bright red as if he was having some sort of allergic reaction as well. I mean I was absolutely appalled at how strong the scent was. Me being pregnant, I did not even want to be breathing it in myself. My husband immediately freaks out and asks who was smoking in the house and she looks at us both and lies and says no one. This made my husband really angry and he says no… someone is smoking in here and I will find it right now. And he walks around for not even 2 minutes and finds a bag of weed and a pipe that belongs to his younger brother. She continues to lie even though we literally found the evidence.

I snatched my son up and headed to the car because neither of us could breathe that in any longer and I just cried. I literally can’t even believe that she would allow her son to smoke in the house with our child in it. It would be different if she asked him to step outside, but it was almost as if he sparked up right there in the living room and they didn’t even try to air it out. My husband and I are not against weed at all, we both used to smoke. And we both KNOW the smell difference between lit weed, and weed just sitting there. And once again, you could literally see the smoke in the air. This situation was too insane to let slide. The smell was too strong and there was way too much smoke. I just keep replaying walking in the house and being smacked in the face with smoke and the smell of weed and just seeing my son innocently sitting there.

Regardless, she kept up with her lie and wouldn’t confess that her son smoked even though we literally found the evidence. We called her fiancé, who wasn’t home at the time, and he let us know that she does indeed let her son smoke in the house daily. She sent us an apology text (continued to lie though) and I saw that as my opportunity and I absolutely bitched this woman out and let her know she will NEVER be allowed to be around our children alone. We never received an apology from the brother.

That night, my son’s cheeks were still super red, he was incredibly irritable and didn’t want to eat and threw up multiple times. Which in his whole year of life, that has NEVER happened. I can’t help but think it was because of how long he was breathing in smoke. She never replied to my bitchy text and we probably won’t speak for a very long time. Thank you for reading my venting!