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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for responses.  The last couple years I've tried to keep a low profile because I didn't want my kids around me getting put down by in laws or me getting irritable with them (in laws.). It seems to have backfired as even though my husband (who is great and on same page with me) is very scrupulous about pitching in and pulling our family's weight with chores, etc. I have gained a reputation as lazy and unwilling to help which just makes mil worse. (I am very willing to help in normal circumstances but it seems nothing I did in mils kitchen was ever right, she'd sigh and reload a dishwasher I had loaded because it wasn't done according to her elaborate plan, etc.)

It seems I have to decide between going back to being "kitchen dunce" and bowing out entirely. [/quote]

If you are kitchen dunce, stay out her way for the most part, but do something easy you can't screw up like the set the table, boil water, clear the table, and bring a hostess gift or prepared or store bought dish.[/quote]

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