Here's to my lovely Mil

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she's hosting us this year
she's a fantastic person (raises dh very well!) and is lovely to be around.

We're not with MIL this year but mine is an epic woman.

She's an absolute angel and a dear friend to boot. I no longer have my mum but having my MIL makes that a wee bit easier. I'm very lucky.

What time should we turn up?

Lovely to hear. Have a great Christmas with one of the good ones.

Mine has gone now, we miss her terribly 😔

My ex MIL is also an absolute gem, she is my role model of how to be a MIL and grandma, my own mother was a bit rubbish at both tbh 😆

Same here.
mil is awesome at Christmas and this year I’m so grateful to be here

watched the little lord together, sang some carols, went for a walk.

bird is in the oven for dinner now, so we all are peeling potatos, preparing the rest.

so peaceful and good natured. unlike my own family I feel properly at home.

🙄

Can't stand mine.

Cheers to my fab MIL too, who does nothing but try and make my life easier. She is an amazing Grandma to my daughter's and we are lucky to have her.

I have a lovely MIL too.

Here’s to my lovely ex MIL. Divorced her son earlier this year and she’s sent me a Christmas card, present and handy stuff for the house.

Always loved her and I SO appreciate her staying in touch, even now ex and I are both coupled with new partners each.

Fabulous woman and a top Granny 🥂

I adored my FIL. MIL had died before I met DH. FIL was a very stern and forbidding man who kept telling DH how lucky he was to have met me, and gave me £500 every Christmas on the instruction to spend it on myself but was very exacting and dogmatic about Christmas food and then when he died made me his sole beneficiary.

I miss him very badly.

Just add to the chorus. My MIL is an amazing woman. She tolerates no shit but is wise and loving, kind and thoughtful, buys amazing gifts and listens to all of us. Love her dearly.

Mine was a gem. She’s been gone 18 months now, I miss her terribly. I’ll never forget when she came to the hospital after DD was born. She walked past the cot thing and straight to me and held me in the most lovely hug and said ‘I’m so proud of you, this is the luckiest baby in the world’. She had the most generous spirit.

My MIL died before we married and I'm so sad she never got to see us make it, or meet our three lovely boys. She was slightly bonkers but so kind and welcoming. During a spilt in our early days she and fil sent me an Xmas card with no judgemrnt but telling me they were sad I was no longer with their son and wishing me all the best. I was welcomed back with open arms a few months later. One of the best.

I'm sat next to mine right now

Shes everything i want to be as a woman,mother and grandmother

She treads that fine line between being in our lives and not over stepping

She puts up with me (she loves me really) she never judges and listens to my rambling

Shes the most incredible woman I've ever met and we both adore her

I'm not only lucky to have her but I'm a better person for knowing her

Here's to great MILs! Mine snuck an envelope with 1k to DH with instructions to make memories with his family.
She's the only person that gets me a present, too.

As a mum to a boy who often feels soo depressed reading all the threads about people hating their MILs this is such a nice thread to read !!

My son split with his really lovely live in girlfriend in early Nov- his choice and seems he just didn’t want domesticity, kind of right person but wrong time thing and she’s pretty devastated. - I did the same as your MIL yesterday and she sent me such a lovely message back last night I was welling up .

These are such lovely posts!

i love my MiL very much. It has taken me years to get to this point, we certainly didn’t see eye to eye at first. But over the years I think she has realised that I truly love her son; that I’m not in competition with her; and that I appreciate her as a MiL and a grandmother to my kids so very much.

She has made Christmas lovely just be being here, helping and laughing and taking part in everything and my kids simply love her.

In fact I really must take the time to tell her, because I don’t do it enough.

Spent the day with my lovely ex-mil today. We’re not best friends but she’s brilliant 🤩

My MIL is sadly no longer with us and I miss her so much 😢 she was such an amazing woman and a lovely Grandma to my boys. When I had post natal depression after my second baby, she was so kind and took care of me. She never judged my parenting either!

Mine is lovely too, sadly not in great health but made it today and had a great time!

Exactly!