Misty your MIL just has to get over herself and get a life. Really I am sick of in laws and families getting jealous of each other or in some cases forgetting that the other exists.

Where in any of our wedding vows did we say "I forsake my blood family in favour of my in laws, I will love my MIL more than I ever loved my own mother, and for all parenting advice I will only speak to my MIL and follow all her suggestions as if they were passed down by God!"

My MIL is a bit like Sarah's and only has 2 sons, so in her eyes I am her daughter. I really don't want that, I never asked for it. I have enough issues with my own mother, I don't need another one (my own mother for all her problems has no problem with my parenting choices). So she gets upset when she does something that is well meaning and motherly and I don't appreciate or in the worst case, wish she had not done it.

Sorry for the post, but MIL will be here in 2 hours and 40 minutes and counting.......