Oh MIL

MrsMommyQ · May 2013

My MIL just joined Facebook and she's not very computer savvy. I try to keep my stuff on FB on the more private side. I have groups and only let certain people see certain things and statuses. I just don't like my friend's brother's girlfriend to know I'm away for a week, ya know?

Well, I just recently put up a new pic of DD and MIL tagged it with like 11 of her friends...which then means all THEIR friends can see the pic too, which I don't want. I untagged all the friends. Here we are 3 days later and she tagged them all again. I'm kinda laughing though bc I know she has NO idea what she's evening doing. She's probably wondering why her tags disappeared. I just wrote her a quick message explaining things. I'll tell her again in person when I see her this weekend. (I'd have DH explain it to her, but he's not on FB and doesn't really get it either.)

Anyone have any good MIL stories to share?!

Omeed · May 2013

Tons!!! Lol!! I can fill endless novels about her!!

trackgirlparis · May 2013

I would hate that too...luckily my MIL doesn't quite understand how to do that!
Last night though, when FI called to tell her we had went to find out the gender, she said "oh what are we having?" And THANK GOD he told her "mom, YOU are not having anything, WE are having a baby" hahahahahaha she is insane.

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beccaleap · May 2013

parisashleymuir:
I would hate that too...luckily my MIL doesn't quite understand how to do that! Last night though, when FI called to tell her we had went to find out the gender, she said "oh what are we having?" And THANK GOD he told her "mom, YOU are not having anything, WE are having a baby" hahahahahaha she is insane.

Good for your FI!

trackgirlparis · May 2013

beccaleap:
parisashleymuir:
I would hate that too...luckily my MIL doesn't quite understand how to do that!
Last night though, when FI called to tell her we had went to find out the gender, she said "oh what are we having?" And THANK GOD he told her "mom, YOU are not having anything, WE are having a baby" hahahahahaha she is insane.
Good for your FI! 

Thanks! I was so happy he but that in the butt right away lol

Jalee85 · May 2013

My MIL and FIL don't even have a computer yet Thankfully! But my own mom accidentally outed me on FB! Luckily I have a cell and saw what she wrote and promptly deleted... I had just posted that I thought I was getting a cold... and she told me to make sure I took care of her Grand Baby....lmao Yeah glad I caught that one right away!

EmJ&B · May 2013

parisashleymuir:
I would hate that too...luckily my MIL doesn't quite understand how to do that! Last night though, when FI called to tell her we had went to find out the gender, she said "oh what are we having?" And THANK GOD he told her "mom, YOU are not having anything, WE are having a baby" hahahahahaha she is insane.

Good for him!

My MIL keeps telling people "we" are having a boy . . . grr . . .

Octoberbabe · May 2013

I have to see my MIL tomorrow she is an exhausting person to be around. Not a great way to start the long weekend.

norbert5 · May 2013

My MIL isn't on facebook which is awesome. I doubt I would be her friend anyways to be honest.

DH and I wanted to share the sex of baby 3 in a special way so we bought these really cute scratch off tickets to mail everyone. Well she thought it was dumb we were making her wait so DH broke down and told her (weenie) and then made her promise that he wouldn't tell anyone because we really wanted to send out the scratch off cards.

Well of course she couldn't keep her big mouth shut and told everyone on her side of the family. So now I have scratch off cards going to people that already know. She couldn't even wait 48 hours. Angry

DH confronted her and she basically said that everyone was harassing her so she just had to tell. Uhm, no. No one knew we had had our ultrasound and the real reason is you are a huge gossip and you need to tell everyone everything first even if it is not true and/or private information that was never meant to be shared.

germanpickle · May 2013

norbert5:

My MIL isn't on facebook which is awesome. I doubt I would be her friend anyways to be honest.

DH and I wanted to share the sex of baby 3 in a special way so we bought these really cute scratch off tickets to mail everyone. Well she thought it was dumb we were making her wait so DH broke down and told her (weenie) and then made her promise that he wouldn't tell anyone because we really wanted to send out the scratch off cards.

Well of course she couldn't keep her big mouth shut and told everyone on her side of the family. So now I have scratch off cards going to people that already know. She couldn't even wait 48 hours.

DH confronted her and she basically said that everyone was harassing her so she just had to tell. Uhm, no. No one knew we had had our ultrasound and the real reason is you are a huge gossip and you need to tell everyone everything first even if it is not true and/or private information that was never meant to be shared.

Wow - that is awful. Well, at least your husband learned a lesson, right?

norbert5 · May 2013

ntrick:
norbert5:
Well of course she couldn't keep her big mouth shut and told everyone on her side of the family. So now I have scratch off cards going to people that already know. She couldn't even wait 48 hours.

DH confronted her and she basically said that everyone was harassing her so she just had to tell. Uhm, no. No one knew we had had our ultrasound and the real reason is you are a huge gossip and you need to tell everyone everything first even if it is not true and/or private information that was never meant to be shared.

Wow - that is awful. Well, at least your husband learned a lesson, right?

She has been like this for the last ten years I have known her. I think he would have learned his lesson by now. But it is a mom and her son, what are you going to do?

JLW0504 · May 2013

My husband's step-mother is the reason I no longer have a facebook page. I innocently posted a question about a recipe substitution and she went apesh!t on me and didn't speak to me for 2 months. There are other family members that took EVERYTHING i said literally, and thus decided that his step-family cannot handle large social medias.

cole89 · May 2013

cdhaslag:
Hahaha that's too funny! My MIL recently got Facebook too and we mailed them a package with a book we made announcing our pregnancy. Her Facebook picture is now a photo of her holding the last page of the book that says: Baby H Due Oct 2013 right in front of her own stomach and giving a thumbs up. DH and I, along with our friends, got a kick out of it.

This had me lol. It's too cute.

cole89 · May 2013

norbert5:
My MIL isn't on facebook which is awesome.nbsp; I doubt I would be her friend anyways to be honest.DH and I wanted to share the sex of baby 3 in a special way so we bought these really cute scratch off tickets to mail everyone.nbsp; Well she thought it was dumb we were making her wait so DH broke down and told her weenie and then made her promise that he wouldn't tell anyone because we really wanted to send out the scratch off cards. nbsp;Well of course she couldn't keep her big mouth shut and told everyone on her side of the family.nbsp; So now I have scratch off cards going to people that already know.nbsp; She couldn't even wait 48 hours.nbsp;[:] DH confronted her and she basically said that everyone was harassing her so she just had to tell.nbsp; Uhm, no.nbsp; No one knew we had had our ultrasound and the real reason is you are a huge gossip and you need to tell everyone everything first even if it is not true and/or private information that was never meant to be shared.

First of all I'd be super pissed. And we can't tell my MIL certain things either cause she's a bucket with holes in it and everyone would know lol. I've decided that my ILs won't even know when I go in labor. We'll call them after the birth. Is that mean?

EmJ&B · May 2013

cole89:
norbert5:
My MIL isn't on facebook which is awesome.nbsp; I doubt I would be her friend anyways to be honest.DH and I wanted to share the sex of baby 3 in a special way so we bought these really cute scratch off tickets to mail everyone.nbsp; Well she thought it was dumb we were making her wait so DH broke down and told her weenie and then made her promise that he wouldn't tell anyone because we really wanted to send out the scratch off cards. nbsp;Well of course she couldn't keep her big mouth shut and told everyone on her side of the family.nbsp; So now I have scratch off cards going to people that already know.nbsp; She couldn't even wait 48 hours.nbsp;[:] DH confronted her and she basically said that everyone was harassing her so she just had to tell.nbsp; Uhm, no.nbsp; No one knew we had had our ultrasound and the real reason is you are a huge gossip and you need to tell everyone everything first even if it is not true and/or private information that was never meant to be shared.

First of all I'd be super pissed. And we can't tell my MIL certain things either cause she's a bucket with holes in it and everyone would know lol. I've decided that my ILs won't even know when I go in labor. We'll call them after the birth. Is that mean?

I wish this was an option for us!

MrsSpan87 · May 2013

My MIL has to comment or message me on every single post, status change or picture I have on Facebook. She then proceeds to call way too often to lecture me and give advice on how I should do x, y and z. It's so annoying. I know she means well, but geez back off!!!

blondolphn · May 2013

My MIl is out of country for the week. Sounds like a few could have used to join her. But luckily my MIL has been horrible about answering her phone so I could never tell her anything as soon as I wanted to anyways.

norbert5 · May 2013

EmJ&B:
cole89:
norbert5:
My MIL isn't on facebook which is awesome.nbsp; I doubt I would be her friend anyways to be honest.DH and I wanted to share the sex of baby 3 in a special way so we bought these really cute scratch off tickets to mail everyone.nbsp; Well she thought it was dumb we were making her wait so DH broke down and told her weenie and then made her promise that he wouldn't tell anyone because we really wanted to send out the scratch off cards. nbsp;Well of course she couldn't keep her big mouth shut and told everyone on her side of the family.nbsp; So now I have scratch off cards going to people that already know.nbsp; She couldn't even wait 48 hours.nbsp;[:] DH confronted her and she basically said that everyone was harassing her so she just had to tell.nbsp; Uhm, no.nbsp; No one knew we had had our ultrasound and the real reason is you are a huge gossip and you need to tell everyone everything first even if it is not true and/or private information that was never meant to be shared.

First of all I'd be super pissed. And we can't tell my MIL certain things either cause she's a bucket with holes in it and everyone would know lol. I've decided that my ILs won't even know when I go in labor. We'll call them after the birth. Is that mean?

I wish this was an option for us!

We text people to keep them updated. But we never tell them our room number and our hospital has a form you fill out instructing them how much information they can give out and we check the no information box. They won't even comment if we are there or not. Drives MIL nuts but I love it.

pandaglitter · May 2013

You can set it so that you have to approve tags!

I think it's in account preferences and tagging or something. That way they can't just be crazy.

My MIL is pretty tame. I have no hilarious stories.

ohkay · May 2013

norbert5:
My MIL isn't on facebook which is awesome.nbsp; I doubt I would be her friend anyways to be honest.DH and I wanted to share the sex of baby 3 in a special way so we bought these really cute scratch off tickets to mail everyone.nbsp; Well she thought it was dumb we were making her wait so DH broke down and told her weenie and then made her promise that he wouldn't tell anyone because we really wanted to send out the scratch off cards. nbsp;Well of course she couldn't keep her big mouth shut and told everyone on her side of the family.nbsp; So now I have scratch off cards going to people that already know.nbsp; She couldn't even wait 48 hours.nbsp;[:] DH confronted her and she basically said that everyone was harassing her so she just had to tell.nbsp; Uhm, no.nbsp; No one knew we had had our ultrasound and the real reason is you are a huge gossip and you need to tell everyone everything first even if it is not true and/or private information that was never meant to be shared.

Oh my goodness! I'm one to keep my cool, but I'm quite sure I would go off on MIL if she did that.

ohkay · May 2013

MosyMama:
I love my MIL, but she has her moments. Some examples: my FIL told MH and me that MIL wants to convert part of their bedroom to a nursery. FIL told MIL that they weren't getting joint custody, and that the baby will have his own room in our house, so we'll probably keep the baby over here. Heh.MH and I revealed baby's sex on Mother's Day at dinner by giving our moms blue cards with "IT'S A BOY" confetti inside. A piece of confetti fell out of my mom's card before she pulled it out of the envelope, and she got all excited and tearful while MIL didn't have much of a reaction at all. When the excitement had died down, MIL said, "I knew it was a boy. I love my boys." It seemed weird to me, but maybe just because she's so different from my mom...IDK.

Your MIL's reaction was definitely strange.

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