AIBU to feel irritated by MIL’s barbed comments about gardening?

[letsmowthelawn]

I always thought I got on reasonably well with MIL but I’m not so sure now. Lately there have been a number of comments which feel a bit barbed and I’m starting to feel a bit irritated, so that’s the context.

This morning DH was mowing the lawn and MIL started tittering and said ‘oh now … when you bought this house I remember asking who would do the gardening and you said YOU’D do it!’ She was tittering and giggling to herself all the way through this and I’m honestly not sure whether I was supposed to be amused by my slovenly gardening ways or what.

I am not going to say anything; we don’t see a lot of them so I don’t want to cause a ruckus and besides it’s not a big deal I suppose. But I’m wondering if others would have been a bit irritated or am I a bit prickly at the moment?

In fairness @SarahAndQuack while there was always the odd one I thought it was thoughtlessness rather than meanness but yesterday did feel so very pointed …

DH is in a lot of pain at the moment; MRI has yielded nothing untoward and I know she’s worried but I can’t do much else. And I feel like I’m being somehow blamed for it or maybe they think I should make him lie down and rest all the time or something ?

Same here. Every flower is a ‘lupin’, not sure he knows any others! I do the design, my DH does the mowing more often than me and fences off bits to protect them from dogs etc, eg the veg patch was fenced off, but i designed it, planted and grew everything in there.

If mil has form, I’d be challenging every comment until she got bored then asking her why she keeps making shitty comments.

"Ah yes, MiL, but in the run up to mothers day, he said he'd get you a present. So he owes me one"

You get the children involved, kids LOVE gardening.

And re mri, I presume it's his back? You should be doing the lawn in this case, that's sheer decency and respect for your partner.

I didn’t realise he was going to: I took the children out and came back and he was doing it. I’ve no real plans for the garden and wouldn’t involve the kids if I did tbh.