to go against the I-Hate-My-MIL grain and give three cheers for mine?

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Bloke took me away for the weekend. He booked an evening at River Cottage, along with a night at a B&B in a pretty little seaside village. It was the first time I'd left little Ff (9mo) overnight - in fact, as I am a breastfeeding WAHM, it was the first time I had left her for any significant period of time - and I was a little nervous. (Right up until my first pint...then I was like, 'Baby, what baby?'. But anyway, I digress...)

PIL got back from 3 weeks in Goa on Friday. Bloke convinced them to come straight here from the airport, so that I would have time to go through all of my PFB instructions, and let MIL put Ff to bed with me there, so I was happy that she wouldn't cry like a small banshee at being put down by someone other than me.

We got back yesterday afternoon, and not only was the baby fed, rested and happy, the house was immaculate, and the three loads of washing I had hid from the PIL in the corner of our bedroom, was washed, dried, ironed and neatly folded on the dining room table.
And the dogs had been walked so far that they barely raised an eyelid when we came through the front door.

These people are saints, and I give three cheers for them.

My MIL is lovely. Too frail to help out much (apart from taking dh and ds off my hands when they visit her ) but she adores ds and saves up all her Tesco vouchers so we can take him to Legoland.

I'm glad that you don't all think I am being a bit cheesy for spreading the MIL love. I just thought, it is nearly Christmas, and the breed that are MILs are getting a bit of a bashing on here at the moment (With good reason in a lot of case.)so a nice story might go down well.

My first thought was to be a bit in case her cleaning and laundry spree was some sort of passive-aggressive judgement about my general slatternliness, and inability to look after her PFGC and PFB. Then, I reasoned that this was almost definitely not the case, but even if it is, why should I care?!

I love my MIL. We joined the W.I. together.

I suspect part of the reason we get on so well is her only daughter died when she was 3. I am, so a small extent, a replacement. Also DH is so useless with women that they were despairing of ever becoming grandparents. I arrived on the scene, organised him and presented them with DD. How could they NOT be grateful?

I thought it was a lovely thread- it makes a very pleasant change!

i agree three cheers too, mine are lovely, free childcare, could not do enough.

Mine is lovely too. She was here this weekend and left after I had to go to work this am. I got in to find the washing up all done (and there was a mountain ) and the house lovely and clean and tidy.

She is not always the most relaxing person to have around as she is a bit high maintenance but she helps out, babysits so dh and I get a break and is great with my 2 boys.

Funnily enough I was just thinking of posting a similar thread to this so well done op!

my MIL is lovely too. She is generous and adores my DS. I think my mum is a good MIL too, so we're a lucky family (my DP deserves a medal for putting up with my father though, so it balances out!)

I'm so glad you started this thread, because I was beginning to at how many awful experiences others were going through with theirs.
How are those of us with DSs going to feel in future when we gain DILs, particularly if they hate us?
I too had a complete gem of a MIL, but she died 18 months ago and I miss her more than words can say.

Lovely MIL.

She once advised me that I HAD to watch the film 'Snatch' cos it had Brad Pitt in it wearing extremely tight and very brief briefs.

Bless her, she's not with us any longer. Was around to see me and Mr Dippydino wed, but not for little dd Dino.

But good to see that there are lots of lovely MIL out there!