I need to rant...

My MIL is in town for 2 weeks. Thankfully she's not staying with us the whole time, but she's been here for the past 2 days. She loves to use a passive aggressive way of telling me how to do things with LO. "She'd probably go to bed faster if you just went up and nursed her a few minutes." Yeah, too bad we're trying to break her of that habit, but MIL was hungry and was tired of waiting for DH to get LO down so we could eat dinner.

This afternoon she offered to hold LO til she fell asleep for a nap. Thirty minutes later I find them playing in the nursery. MIL said, "oh she didn't want to nap, she wanted to play!" So LO totally missed her nap, which made her overtired and probably played into her not going down to sleep tonight.

Then, for dinner, she helped herself to a bottle of wine out of our wine fridge without asking. It was a nice bottle that my parents had bought us and we were saving. She's drank probably half of it and right now is pretty tipsy and driving me crazy! She likes to tell stories of how she kept DH in a basket an tried to hide him under the table at a bar when he was a baby. Or how she only worked part time so she could nurse and why can't I just do that?

She thinks we're too uptight with LO. What she doesn't understand is that having LO on a routine makes our lives much easier.

DH and I have a nickname for LO that we've called her since I was preggers. To me, it's just OUR nickname. But MIL uses it constantly and it drives me crazy. And she's convinced that LO is on the verge of talking, so she keeps repeating the same words over and over. She's 4 months old....I'm pretty sure she's not gonna be spouting out words any time soon.

Ugh. Why do MILs have to be sooo difficult?

(Phew, that felt good to get off my chest!)