OS 23rd March 2008 Easter Sunday

grannybroon

HJ

How dare she say an egg sandwich. I would stick that monitor even further!

GB

joannasmum

HariboJunkie wrote: »

I'm afraid I can't lend out the gas detector as this afternoon I inserted it into a part of my MIL's anatomy. :cool:

Having geared the menu towards things she likes instead of our usual roast,(she is an obsessive non meat eater) she announced as I was serving the smoked salmon on HM oven baked wholemeal bread starter that she wouldn't have much as she was hungry on the way over and nipped into Tesco for an egg sandwich. :eek: :rolleyes: :mad: !!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!! ***** !!!!!!!!.

The checky animal that goes moo. I think that she would proberbly have ended up wearing it if it was me.

Donny-gal: I appriciate the suggestion I have tried many times to find a middle ground. They take the spoilling of grandchildren to the extreme. My SIL has been having the same problem for 13 years. I don't think that I'm a millitant parent but I think after 7 lots of choc and a none eaten dinner she'd had enough. It was dh that really pee'd me off not backing me up yet again! Sorry I'm ranting again, I think you get the picture.

grannybroon

Hi J's Mum

Sorry, have I missed something? Our two older DGSs were a bit iffy with their dinner tonight - not eat dinner - not get chocolate (which is the general rule!). Sometimes one of them eats properly - he gets a wee choc treat. If the other doesn't eat properly, then no, sorry!

Happily they both ate a good roast pork dinner eventually, the yoghurt so then got a bit of Easter egg! I try totally to keep to DD and DSIL rules as this, I feel so much important.

GB xxxxx

joannasmum

Hi GB

I was ranting earlier in the thread about my MIL having abit of a laugh with my BIL and J at eating more choc after I'd said no more and more importantly how my DH is terrible at being a parent when his parents are around

donny-gal

It was only a though JM, I had such fantastic relationship with my MIL, still miss her though she has been with us for 11 or more years.

Though on the other hand cannot seem to make any inroads with DS's GF, polite enough, but does not appear to want to be friends, and seems to be all her family, suddenly if I want to do something with our (very small) family she is busy with uni work, or she has to work, visits seldom, though DS visits hers.
DG

grannybroon

Hi Jo

As I said earlier, we go with DD and SIL rules. When boys here well, let's face it grandparents bend the rules a wee bit but they are made aware that it because they are here and they have got to behave when at home. GB and GBGD phones to make sure that is the case!

On the whole we have to maintain the ground rules because that doesn't help when boys go home!

GB xxxxxxxx