Mother In Laws

[hoosier]

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We ran a telephone line out when we ran the power. Now I can make coffee and read the forum out there.

 

[Blue Skys]

I feel very fortunate that all of my in-laws (theres quite a few, his parents are divorced but both remarried) are normal, for the most part. The ones that are a bit odd at least know how to stay out of our business. All ya'll with terrible MIL's really have kind of inspired me to get closer with mine, she's really a very great lady.

Oh, and for the sake of my husband, I hope I don't turn into my mother, she's wonderful and I love her to death, but living 1500 miles away from her has really helped our relationship, to say the least.

 

[FrontPorchIndiana]

My own mother is a narcissist so my MIL does't really seem so bad. It's all about perspective.

But I'm dying to know what the OP's MIL thought was wrong with the eggs in the backyard?????

 

[ridgefire]

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Ummm well here is the short list. She says they are too strong of a flavor for her. She also says its gross knowing the chicken that laid it. My counter to that one was I don't know which chicken laid it, I just know if its brown it was a buff orp and if its white a leg horn laid it. I guess she feels that the chickens locked into a tiny cage lay cleaner eggs.

And she doesn't like the fact that my eggs are fertile, I'm sorry but I'm not pulling my rooster out so she can have unfertilized eggs. I tried explaining to her there is no difference to a fertilized egg and a non fertile one.

 

[Promiselandfarm]

Too bad you could not have told her your Rooster turned gay and was no longer breeding the hens. So how did it turn out? Did she eat or starve? My MIL is not nice and never has been but now she has Alzheimer so she does not remember that she does not like me. Sadly it has been nice. Her mother died of it as she will most likely over time if a cure is not found. What is very ironic is when my husband told her we were thinking out starting a family she told him to divorce me quickly because my Dad suffered from panic attacks and that I had mental illness in my genes because of it. Well Dad's panic attacks came from being an army vet from have to go to battling in a war no one liked. He could no longer hold in the nightmares on his own and was brave enough to admit it and get help. She was one of those MIL that would get everyone a nice gift for Christmas except me. I either got a pillow case(1) or something really bad mean like a shirt or robe that was a size 3x making a statement that she thought I was large. When we married I was a size 5 and told me I needed to go on a diet, I just had a great figure. If my children ever had any kind of issue it must have come from my genes...ect... Sad just very sad. My children are not close to her because she treats them as if they are step-grandchildren not here own son's kids. Also it depends on who gives her the gift as to if she likes it or not. This year we got her a string of pearls( the real deal) she turned her nose up at them. But when her favorite gave her a bubble bath set she just loved it ...yet when we gave her one she told everyone how she hated those.... A no win place to be. So we only go at Christmas and as little outside of that as possible..... My husband has it made my mom loves him more than me. When we fight she takes his side and tells me I have a great husband and should be thankful and suck it up.... I just make mental notes of what I do not want to do as a MIL because it sucks not having a good relationship with the parents of ones husband.

 

[crazy hen quartet]

Maybe you should just go get her a dozen store bought white eggs and on the lid and inside of the lid glue photos of some battery cage hens so she can see where THEY came from.

 

[ridgefire]

Well the house is empty again.

She sat and watched us eat. I'm sure she is plotting my divorce at this time. She was angry I refused to buy her special eggs. But no worries my father in law made up the difference. He ate till he almost exploded. He said they were the best eggs he has ever eaten. My mother in law just rolled her eyes and said we were disgusting for eating those eggs.

 

[thechickenchick]

I really am apalled that she would treat you like that. I am proud that you did not go buy her special eggs. Little does she know your eggs ARE special. Do you only have to deal with her once a year? I hope so. Bless you sweetie, its over!!

Do the happy chicken dance!!

 

[sunnychooks]

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I'm so sorry but I had to laugh at this post. Dear MIL probably looked like a fool and your poor FIL probably got a good earfull on the way home.
I'm so glad for you that her visit is over. And good for you for not buying her "special" eggs!

 

[SpottedCrow]

Too bad you could not have told her your Rooster turned gay and was no longer breeding the hens

Good Goddess, promisedland...YIKES!!!

My mother was a nutbag of the first water. When she'd come over to watch my DS when he was little, she'd bring her own food! We'd tell her not to take him anywhere and she'd drive off with him. One time we had to leave a friend of my DH's Wedding because she wasn't answering the phone! She had taken him down the beach to a kite festival even though we repeated that she couldn't drive him anywhere!! She was a drinker too which was WHY we didn't want her driving him anwhere!

MY MIL is a drama queen. I had pneumonia in both my lungs and she had to tell me that she had QUADRUPLE pneumonia. I turned to her and asked, "Marie, just how many lungs to do think you have?" My SIL had a miscarriage and she was feeling like snot and my MIL was like it's just a bad period, let's go shopping." On Xmas Then my MIL was doing her usual complaining. Her sister called and we didn't get to talk to her. Nope. Then the phone rang again when they hung up and my FIL says that he picked it up and said Hello, but he didn't. So my MIL got pissy that someone might've called and he hung up on them on Xmas. Then my SIL was saying that Aunt Jenny probalby won't be around next year, so of course, my MIL has to say that no she'd be going first...I was talking about my Aunt and her loss of memory and that because it was from her stroke and my MIL says "Oh I've had one of those." My SIL just looked at each other and rolled our eyes. It's from when she was little and was in a car accident and everyone catered to her, and now that she's almost 90, she seems to expect it.

Goddess knows, we MAY miss them when they're gone, but while they're hear, you can get some great horror stories about them...​