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[quote=Anonymous]If she's generally a constructive feature in DD's life, I'd roll with the little things.  There's worse things than gran handing over cucumber slices while she's watching TV right? She probably just wants to be involved and to help.  I love my MIL because she's a gorgeous, warm welcoming person but she does things that I wouldn't necessarily do.  She wants to overdress the kids, underestimate their tiredness, let them out of doing chores (much to the amused chagrin of my DH who got the earlier stricter version) etc.  But she's part of the fabric of our lives and we love her to bits.  She has her own room in our house although she largely lives in a retirement place and I love that I'll often find my little ones curled up with her in the morning hearing family stories that have only a tenuous relationship to anything that actually happened.  She likes the kids to say grace in our religiously ambiguous household.  Last night's was classic.  Ms five said "dear God.  Thank you for all our food but I wish mommy had cooked more fish and please help me to be better tomorrow because today wasn't my best effort and by the way I don't think I washed all the conditioner out of my hair."  It's all fine.

The only thing I'd be careful of is if behaviour changes.  My mom became quite demented (medically!) before she died of a stroke and the first signs were odd anomalies in her behaviour.  Like giving my four month old whole grapes.  And opening all the windows in the house on a really cold day because "the sun was out"        [/quote]

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