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I Think
I will have a glass of wine. 
Anyone else?
And yes, I do know it is a martini glass lol
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Re: I Think
mmmmm Yummy
I'm having Cab Sav
Cheers! Second glass of Chardonnay here.
Second glass?! What are you, crazy?
Nah I'm just jealous. I only had enough wine left for one glass.
I am that crazy!! No, actually, ILs are visiting and I have a little "break". I'll happily share some of mine with you though.
I'll take you up on that next weekend, that's when MY mil shows up lol.
Ok, sounds great! Do you have nice ILs like I do? Mine are not BSC like most seem to be.
Mine is SO BSC it isn't even funny. I could write a decent sized essay on how crazy my MIL is. Do you wanna hear?
Oh my, vent away mama! You deserve another glass of Chardonnay for sure!
Lol. Bring on the booze! Lol. First off, I'll tell you why DH and I can't trust her, then I'll tell you what she is like now lol.
She had DH when she was 17, which is hard in itself but the father "went out to get smokes" and never came back. So I do know it was hard for her, but it seriously doesn't excuse anything. When DH was 2 years old, MIL and her then BF left some tabs of acid on the coffee table, and yep, you guessed it, DH ate one. His very first memory is of an acid trip, and he has no ability to see colors in his head now, when he thinks of red, all he sees is gray, etc. When he was 6, MIL, DH and her then BF took a road trip, and when DH kept complaining how he had to go to the bathroom the BF burnt his hand with a cigarette and told him to be a man. MIL didn't do a thing. When he was 5, she left to go to a sex party (she admits this) and left him with two bikers who took him bear hunting for a week. They let him shoot a shotgun, seriously. She took him to work with her every night he didn't want to be left at home alone, she has always (still does) works at a bar, and not the classy kind. When he was 8 she left him (repeatedly) in the care of a man who abused him and his friends, I won't say what kind of abuse but I'm sure you can guess. Then MIL got married to a guy who didn't tell her his real name until just a couple of weeks before the wedding, was wanted (and eventually caught) for attempted murder, has been in and out of jail all his life. He is currently in, don't know what for this time. While they were still married, he did some armed robbery somewhere and eventually SWAT came to the house and surrounded them...
I know, this sounds like MUD and OH I WISH IT WERE.
The REAL BSC thing is that she is proud of all of this. And she doesn't understand why we won't let her watch DD.
She HAS changed somewhat, I have to give her credit for that. On the lighter side, she has no concept of personal space and tries to kiss me on the mouth.
::massages aching fingers::
That is pretty much all I can remember, there are more things tickling the back of my mind though.
Holy $hit wow. You are an amazing daughter-in-law for letting them near DD! But it sounds like you and DH are on the same page so that's huge. I will be thinking of you next weekend when they visit. People can just be so nuts, it's sad. Don't you think, as a mom now, how different you view things? Like how people can be sculpted from their upbringing? I totally do. You don't realize how hard it can be to raise a child until you do it. If the circumstances are less than ideal, well then it can be da#n near impossible. Not that I feel ANY sympathy for your MIL, but it sure makes you want to put a bubble around DD, you know?
Seriously, a bubble would be great! I wonder if they make those...lol
The biggest surprise for me is how DH turned out. We've talked about it, and he says that he just decided he wanted to be the opposite of what was around him! He is such a strong man. He is everything his family isn't. I still can't comprehend it most days. I totally feel different now that I've had Brianna. When it was just me and DH, it was alright, she was still annoying and BSC but we can take care of ourselves, Brianna can't. I may be taking the whole protective mommy thing a wee bit too far, but under the circumstances I'm okay with that lol.