MIL vent: My husband had his 10 year university (our country's military college) reunion this weekend, and skipped half the events because of stuff my MIL wanted to do. He went along with it, and I bit my tongue because it's his reunion and not mine. Today was the big ceremony and he left half way through the parade (which he was in, he just walked off), because his mom had invited people over for a brunch to meet our baby. She informed us of this on Friday, after the fact. It absolutely infuriates me that she did this without asking us, given that she knew there were events throughout the whole weekend. Last year was my reunion, and she barely saw us the whole weekend, so it's not like she didn't know that there was a ceremony/parade today. She's just very self-centred and wanted to show off HER grandchild. To cut her some slack, it's possible that she forgot, but she should still have checked with us that we would be available, given that the entire purpose of our visit this weekend was to attend DH's class reunion. No real question on how to handle this, we are on our way to the brunch now, and I will be gracious and polite. I just needed to vent. Thanks for the opportunity to get my frustration out of my system.