well it's nice to know other understand how i feel. my MIL is a nice woman, she just expects to be way more involved then i am willing. whenever i have to describe her, i tell people she is a clone of 'maree' off 'everybody loves raymond'. she is really good at guilting people into doing things they don't want to. i guess it just gets to me because i don't like feeling pressured by ANYONE (it usually causes me to do the opposite) and i don't feel like i should have to explain myself about anything - yet for some reason i always find myself justifying my position with her. of course i'm sure all these pregnancy hormones are making me more touchy then i would be normally anyway.

luckily my SIL has just told everyone that she is pregnant with her third child - so hopefully this will give my MIL someone else to focus on, someone who will actually appreciate the attention. \/