MIL Invades

OK, so we are living very very (conveniently) far away from the MIL. But she missed her grandchildren, and she had expiring frequent flier points. So she did the right thing and called my hubby first to see if it was ok for her to fly in and visit us for a week. He (wonderful man) did the right thing and said, I'll check with my wife. Which he did about 5 hours later when he came home from work. Apparently this was not fast enough for the monster-in-law, as she booked NON-REFUNDABLE tickets for a week visit without ok'ing it with us, just a few hours after phoning. I want to become seriously ill and spend the week in the hospital, is that wrong?
Posted by:  | February 15, 2007 at 04:33 PM

My mil keeps nagging about when she can come stay with us for 2 weeks... how about never?! She also seems to think that because she's all alone we have to spend every holiday with her. I haven't spent one holiday with my parents since Thanksgiving 2005 because of her. When my husband tells her that we won't be spending Easter with her, she starts crying and saying that she's all alone and she almost died last year (which is true, she was given a 10% chance of surviving pneumonia last April)... but she's fine now and keeps using her near-death experience against us when she's not getting her way.
Posted by: | February 21, 2007 at 10:26 AM

My MIL wants the whole family to go to Florida together. We only get 2 weeks of vacation a year. One of them is for Christmas usually. So if we go to Florida we spend our ONLY vacation time, all of it with her! I'm going to pull my hair out. How do I tell my husband I don't want to go???
Posted by: I don't want to go to Florida! | February 15, 2007 at 04:33 PM