Have name changed!
I absolutely love my mother-in-law to be. She's cool and funny and really good fun to be around but lives abroad so I have only ever spent time with her while on holiday visiting her.
My OH and I are getting married this year and she is naturally coming along. Her own mother lives here and so I assumed that she would be staying there.
Last night my OH told me that he had told her she can come and stay at our house for a couple of nights and, even though I am regularly annoyed by people on mumsnett freaking out about their in-laws, I felt all the hairs on my back rise and panic set in.
I quickly managed to give myself a talking to and just said 'oh that's great' or something similar but really I had a running dialogue of 'she's not expecting to stay the night before the wedding, or the day of the wedding is she, my house is way too small, what am I going to do about my sluttish mays, doesn't he realise how much cleaning I am going to have to do, what if we are in work the days she stays will this mean she will be poking about my house!' etc etc.
I'm being a freak aren't I? I can't reasonably expect the man I am about to marry to not ever invite his mother to stay can I?
Bah!