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We've had MiL here for near on 3 weeks now. She always means well, but old age doesn't come alone so it's not always easy. Anyway, we'll miss her when she's gone and hope to see her next year.
My dad's been here since the day before yesterday, he's great and gets on well with the wife and kids. So no complaints there.
The MiL will be turning up on Wednesday in time for NY... she's a traditional Spanish housewife and wouldn't dream of letting a man do anything around the house - I don't have any problem with her but I imagine the girls + wife will be extremely glad to see her go when she heads off on the 7th 😆
Mil is fine, has been the aunt in law giving parenting advice that has been the irritant this evening
No MiL but FiL is getting forgetful.
He remembered he normally buys a box of wine at Christmas (mail order), but forgot he already had!
Currently we've got 3 boxes, and expect more in the new year!
We’ve had our first Xmas at home for about 10 yrs. FIL is here. He’s pretty good to be honest apart from being a fully paid up member of UKIP and banging on all the time about politics. That I can cope with but not having descriptive voice text on all the Xmas telly. He’s deaf not blind. Man walks into shop. We know that because we can see it FFS. Do you want subtitles on “no this is fine thanks” ?
At the FIL/MIL. He's great (two polypins, loads of whisky) but she's very Daily Mail ("so and so is gay but quite nice", likes Mrs Brown's Boys). And my nephew eats pasta with ketchup... Yes, I sound like a snob but you have to draw a line somewhere.