Does having overnight company make you physically ill?

missypie
Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:26:31 +0000

When I become the MIL down the road, I will know how to “behave” while visiting my sons’ families.



I hope I will (from my hotel room!) My kitchen is pretty much a one-person room. It’s hard to have anyone help, even if they’d offer. I think when I’m the MIL, I’ll say, “I"d like to cook Italian for y’all tonight, okay?”

I will say that when the inlaws were here at Thanksgiving, FIL wanted to cook us a “steak dinner.” I was in the midst of decorating our 20+ Christmas trees, so I was thrilled. He and Husband went to the store and bought steaks and EVERYTHING ELSE THAT I WAS SUPPOSED TO COOK. He cooked the steaks on the grill and I cooked all the rest of the stuff that he had bought. Doesn’t add up to him cooking dinner for us in my book. (BUT, it *was *the first time in 20 years that either he or MIL have cooked us anything at our house, so that’s a tiny bit of progress.)