My mother-in-law is lovely, but the other day she walked into my house without knocking, calling, or texting first! I nearly died.
Maybe it’s my own fault…
I gave my mother-in-law a key to our house when I went back to work after having my daughter six months ago: I was nervous to leave her at home all day with a babysitter, so I asked my MIL to make random visits to check on the baby. BIG MISTAKE! The weekend before I went back to work she came over without texting or calling — I was in the shower and heard “Helloooo???” The baby was asleep, my husband was at the gym, and I was buck-naked in the shower. It scared the heck out of me because I didn’t know who it was at first — it was her.
She’s always SO perfect…
Chanel workout suit (she doesn’t wear sweats to exercise — she wears a matching velvet suit), dripping with diamonds and a full face of makeup she barges in: “Where is she?” She said, dodging towards the baby’s nursery. Furious and dripping like a wet dog, I ran to the phone and texted my husband: “What the hell is your mother doing not calling before she comes?!” He responds ten minutes later: “Who cares hon?” Uhhh ME! I care! I am in the friggin shower, the baby is in the middle of her nap and she needs to have some respect for our household!
I HAD to say something…
As she walks out with the baby (yep, she woke her up from a nap — and that’s a story for next time) I snap:” Did you call me?” “No, she said.” “Did you text me?” “No, noone ever picks up!” she claims. Ugh.
My husband thinks it’s no biggie his mother just shows up unannounced and I am fuming– this time she’s lucky, a few glasses of wine and I am calm, but next time, if there IS a next time, there will be war.
Next time…
Ok, so we have a six month old baby, and as you can probably guess, there isn’t much hanky panky going on in my house so when the opportunity arises — i.e the baby is asleep, I have taken a shower and my husband has been fed and he’s done watching reruns of “The Office” we’ve sometimes got a teensy window to make things happen. This specific time, we happened to be in the living room with the television on and the curtains closed — my husband is very private about this kind of thing. Not anymore…
Her…
“Hellooooooo” she walked in just as we were starting our love making session and I caught her Chanel warm-up suit and red lipstick out of the corner of my eye. “OH MY GAWD!” I jumped up: “what are you doing here? “MOMMM!!!” yelled my hubby, sounding like a teenage boy who had just been caught watching porn. Needless to say, she was more embarrassed than we were, putting her hands in front of her eyes swearing up and down she’d called both of our phones. This woman’s got zero boundaries!
Thank Goodness she’s gone…
He told her. I couldn’t, but he could-well I could but it wasn’t my place. He needed to stand up to his mother and tell her this was not ok, that the next time she wanted to drop by she had to speak to one of us before she came. He needed to be on my team and not think this was acceptable. To be honest, I’m kind of glad she caught us — she would never have learned her lesson otherwise, and neither would he.
Last time she came (announced, thank you very much), she rushed into the baby’s room, I grabbed her keys and ripped off my house keys.
I’m not taking any chances…
Does YOUR MIL piss you off?
