The last day and my MIL........

[DianaB]

I had a really good time in Nebraska the first few days. It ended up that we didn't go to Pioneer Village but that was alright. We just wanted to rest and visit. We love to play Spades so we were up late playing cards. Brenda (Glen's sister) and her husband, Rob, have a grown daughter that was there and we really enjoyed being with her too. Glen's Mom is depressed and whiney. All she wants to do is sit in a chair and have everything brought to her but if she does that she'll never get to come home. Actually, she's not going to be able to live alone anyway.

We all got in the car one of the days and went to an antique store. It was so much fun and I got several things while I was there!! Then we all went out to eat and went home and played cards again!!

Brenda's house is so interesting because she has the 4 dogs in the house and 4 Irish Wolfhounds......a pond in the back yard with geese and other birds.....and there's also miniature donkeys!! Oh, and a llama too!!! She also has an African Grey Parrot that says all kinds of things!!!

Now for the last day........first I want to give you some information about my MIL. She has been a hoarder ever since I've known her and I don't mean just a messy house, but piles and piles of stuff. She went to antique auctions and just bought and bought and mostly not junk but really nice things. She lives in a really big house and has absolutely filled it with stuff until she only lives in two rooms of the house.

Every day that I was there she pointed out some thing around Brenda's house that she had given her but the stuff she pointed out I knew had been given recently plus I saw some other things that I knew had been my MIL's. On the last morning we were sitting and visiting before breakfast and she mentioned the quilts that she had worked on years ago (she used to do stamped cross stitch quilts). One of her first quilts was a thistle quilt that when Amy was little she had been running in the house (when it was somewhat clean) and she stopped and told my MIL how pretty it was. My MIL always said that she should give that one to Amy and I've reminded her of that when she's asked what I would like of hers. Well.......she mentioned that the two earliest quilts that she did were finished and that she had given one to each of her daughters. I was so upset that I left the room and went to the bedroom that we were staying in and cried. I called Janet because I knew that she'd have me laughing so I wouldn't have red eyes when I went back out.

My MIL had tried on another day to get me to tell her what I wanted of hers.....and I told her nothing but that there were a few things that my kids wanted. I'm so glad that I didn't tell her because I'm sure that she would have made sure that her daughters would have gotten them or the stuff disappears from view. She's done that to me before too.

It's her goal that my sil and I don't get anything of hers. She thinks that it's fair that the guys got all of my FIL's equipment and that the girls get all of her stuff. She had the nerve to sit there and cry and tell me that she sure hoped that nobody had hard feelings over all of her stuff when she was gone.

I know that it seems trivial but I've put up with this for years. She plays favorites so badly that my kids won't hardly have anything to do with her.

We're also planning on having Jaci's wedding in her yard because she has an old fashioned tellis in the yard. We're going to have to do a LOT of yard work to get it done but it will be so pretty. She tried to back out on me.....then when that didn't work she tried to tell me that she wants the yard landscaped!!!! Little does she know.....I'm doing it my way whether she likes it or not. Before this is all over we may be having a little talk. I've had it!!!! Sorry this is so long but I just had to vent!!!