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[quote=Anonymous]I know there are many of us plastering on smiles, and keeping back screams...
So, I'll start. We drove to ILs yesterday. The judgement started immediately.  My 5 yr old didn't hug MIL.  We ate shortly after arriving, and my children didn't eat all their dinner, nor did they ask to be excused.  Well, they had a lot of snacks in the car, plus the beans were cooked to mush and slathered in butter so I wasn't going to force them to eat them. And we have never taught them to ask to be excused. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not raising them that way either. Of course they put their dishes at the sink and threw away their trash and said please and thank you. MIL went on her story about how she raised her children...  
My kids also always wake up early - a little after 6 today.  We went to the side of the home farthest from the bedrooms.  I reminded them to keep their voices down and play quietly. I played with them and whenever they started to get noisey, I reminded them to keep it quiet. They were not loud.  MIL comes out at 7 and makes several snide comments about how she wanted to sleep later but we were too noisey.  And keeps telling them to be quiet because FIL was still sleeping.  So I start getting them dressed to go outside and play - and I get "its so early and they haven't had breakfast!" I replied that I was taking them out so they would not wake FIL. Her response was that he was already awake when she came out.  Ok, so what was with the need to whisper if he was already up?
Ugh.  Not even one day in.[/quote]

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