But not able to help it! MIL is driving me (& DH too) mad at the moment.
I get that she's sad she doesn't see my DD, her first DGC, as often as she would like, but we can't help that we live so far apart. Then DH said DD & I had a lovely visit with my DPs recently and got a spoiled - MIL immediately starts posting gifts for DD. Which is a nice thing to do, sure, but feels like she's trying to make it competition, IYSWIM? And this week actually said, "well, at least we'll have DGD for her 1st birthday" (her emphasis) and is now in a huff because DH pointed out that actually no, whilst we'll be down there for BIL's wedding two days before, we'll have traveled home before DD's birthday as we will both have work, and not able to get time off that week.
And at Christmas she was trying to pull some kind of oneupmanship with what she had bought for DD compared to what my family had given (which didn't compare - plus the main present she gave DD is for children aged 18 months plus when DD was only 4 months old and was a cheap copy of a gift DH had actually suggested (which was suitable for younger babies). I'm still bitter as DH had to take pictures of DD 'enjoying' the present for MIL and she fell off and spent the day howling, poor poppet (know this is DH's fault really and not MILs, but still...)
So, I know IABU really, how do I get over it?!