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anyone got good 'mother in law' stories?

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COOKIE578 · 19/01/2006 13:36

only because mine said to me the other w'end 'what, you mean I won't get to see my grandson being born' (when i told her my own mum would be with me again at the birth aswell as my partner). can't think of anything worse than her seeing all that! am i being mean?!

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Lio · 19/01/2006 13:56

!!!!!

Wow, am speechless. You need WigWam Bam's MIL's Christmas present story to cheer you up. If you don't know it, try looking for old threads with 'Christmas' and 'elastic' in the text...

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COOKIE578 · 19/01/2006 14:49

at first i thought perhaps i misheard her...but she was for real!!!! i felt bad enough putting my own mother thru the birth of my 1st baby, let alone again. is she crazy?! thank god my partner looked equally horrified!
will look up that thread although i'm cringing already...

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oliveoil · 19/01/2006 14:51

mine got me some GHD straighteners for Xmas, she is fab.

oliveoil · 19/01/2006 14:52

oh I see, you want good stories about MIL, not stories about good MIL's.

Dur.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 19/01/2006 14:55

Mine is fab too. She does my ironing for me. Looked after DD when i was back and forth at the hospital with pre eclampsia. She babysits at the drop of a hat.

She lets me have a moan and whinge anytime - and keeps it to herself! She knows about my PND whereas my own mum doesnt. My own mum is, in fact, like the you would expect a MIL to be

MarsOnLife · 19/01/2006 14:55

Nope unless you want some bad jokes. LOL

VeniVidiVickiQV · 19/01/2006 14:55

me too oo!

Tommy · 19/01/2006 14:56

thought the same as olivoil
my MIL is very nice actually although sometimes she tries so hard that it really annoys me so I guess they can't win!
However, it sounds to me as though you are just about to enter the competetive grandma phase....good luck - you'll need it

Wallace · 19/01/2006 14:57

While we were away over Chistmas my MIL cam in and redecorated our Christmas tree

She removed most of the tinsel the kids had lovingly put on...

Tyakit · 20/01/2006 10:44

MIL has a 'thing' about long hair in small children, think it is something to do with having been an HV/school nurse etc for 30+ years and being obsessed with nits (which we haven't had - yet). Despite my telling her not to in no uncertain terms, had my DD's hair cut by her friend, the crap hairdresser from hell. Result DD (now 3, was only about 20mths at the time) had a huge, heavy fringe that looked like a pudding basin had been plonked on her head and cut round!! Was not a happy camper when I got home from work that night . We are still growing it out .

MIL lives with us and sometimes helps out with DD when I am working. We get on OK now, but had an initial power struggle as she had DH firmly under her control.

Moomin · 20/01/2006 10:48

my MIL is lovely but says the most bizarre things as conversation fillers. Look up the old wives tales thread in pregnancy for her views about reaching up and wrapping the cords round the baby's neck, etc....

am organising a party and told her I'd decided on bagettes with nice fillings rather than a buffet due to time and money issues. 'oo that's a good idea' she said, 'because men like that sort of food' WTF!!! told dh and he suggested we have yorkie bars for dessert for the men on this principle - and my friend suggested frys turkish delight for the women!!! pmsl

Lacrimosa · 20/01/2006 10:49

MIL to dd 'Dont draw onyourself , you will die of lead poisoning!'(drawing with non toxic body pens!) As she puffed her cigarette smoke over us! She was told to leave and make sure she never 'accidently' smoked in our house again

TwoIfBySea · 20/01/2006 21:35

MIL on seeing dts2 for the first time, keeping in mind he was 4 weeks old at the time.

"Oh hasn't he got a double chin!"

And she wasn't saying it in a jokey way. I wish I'd had the guts to mention the fact at that age they have no neck either. That was typical of things she would say though. Would it be in bad taste to say ding dong the witch is dead?

chipmonkey · 20/01/2006 22:04

"I know its disappointing for you" because ds2 was a boy.
And there I was thinking that he was a very appealing baby, despite the willie!

TinyGang · 20/01/2006 22:11

"I'm sure I'd look a lot worse that you do if I had three under three"

That was meant as a compliment. I think!

MarmaladeSun · 22/01/2006 21:56

I was living with my MIL when I got married as we were saving for a house. To earn extra money I applied to work as an Ann Summers Rep. the manager came around to have a chat and show me the starter kit. We sat in the kitchen while she showed me the items. MIL came in in the middle of it, said to me 'your FIL will be in for his tea in a minute and won't want to be looking at THAT whilst he's eating his sausages' and started sweeping the kit off the table into the box. I will never forget seeing my MIL (who is the spitting image of the queen) standing in her kitchen with a black vibrator buzzing in her hand!
Thankfully she's my ex MIL now!

divamummy · 23/01/2006 16:39

my MIL is great, we lived together for 3m while we were waiting for our house. she is loud but she is got heart. she does me ironing and cleaning, cook lobby and bake cakes and bring us at least once a week. as i live away from my mum its lovey to have her around. im thinking to have her next time when i have second one.

nell12 · 23/01/2006 19:26

My MIL is DREADFUL! She has 3 DILs and we all hate her! She despises us for taking her darling sons from her (23, 20 and 11 years ago!) and nothing we do is good enough. She visits and sits around like Lady Muck refusing to eat our cooking and sighing dramatically if she is not the centre of attention.
We have many stories to tell, one of my favourites was when she suggested that DS (then aged 2) should go on Valium to "cure" his sleepwalking
Or how about when she stormed out of the room when she realised she would not get her own way and started to pray in the garden and 11pm in her nightie? The next morning she then complained that no-one went to check on her and that she could have drowned in the pond. Too right we didn't check.. we were too busy laughing at her from an upstairs window!

eemie · 23/01/2006 21:08

Nell12 tell us more.

Pruni · 23/01/2006 21:13

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nell12 · 23/01/2006 21:26

oh I could go on for hours! The best thing about her is that she now lives in France, but now it means she gets a huff on when we all say we cannot afford the £600+ travel expenses to visit her (ferry, petrol, tolls/ airfare, car hire) She then claim poverty when it comes to coming home and tries to guilt us all into paying HER ferry fare!
There was the time she said she would have DS (about 15m at the time) "Have a lie-in dear" she says. I pop downstairs to find DS sitting under the ironing board whilst she is ironing...I don't think I have moved so fast in all my life!
She did get me a lacy peg bag for christmas once (I am almost ashamed to say I still have it, but only as a coversation piece!)

PeachyClair · 23/01/2006 21:27

I've told enough tales on my mad bad MIL before, the threads are there if you look.

However I can rival WWB;s pressie- my sister got from her MIL-

A disposable toilet brush.

yackertyyack · 23/01/2006 21:36

I could write a book on my mad mother in law - after 8 years and 2 children with my DH she still thinks that he should be with his ex and often calls me by her name to wind me up!! One of my biggest gripes is that she is SOOOOOO tight! For my DS christening she bought him nothing, not even a card....same at his 1st christmas said he was too young to understand!! YET she gives my DH ex's new daughter (no way related to DH or her!!) £20 for birthdays,christmas etc and she is only 3!!! Grrrr is it me or is that wrong!!! It really winds me up.....got to the point now that I can't even bear to be in the same room as her!!!

PeachyClair · 23/01/2006 21:40

It's wrong, but such is the way of the MIL (feeling very philosophical tonight ).

They're ALMOST all mad, evil and sometimes even sick (mine gave my ds3 alcohol on boxing day). But the one thing they're not is genetically related to us. So, I say, shove 'em all!

(Can you tell Christmas was the end of our relationship with her?)

nell12 · 23/01/2006 21:44

Good on you peachyclair! Isn't it wonderful when you finally reach that stage that nothing they do to you or your family can phase you anymore, you just accept that they are evil to the very depths of their souls and move on!
It has taken me 15 years to get to that state of calm, but I do admit to having the odd twitch whenever she is near...
Just think, in 25 years time (give or take) we could all be MILs