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[quote=Anonymous]I may win, but it is not exactly a contest I am happy to win. :)

My MIL left my five-month old DD on a changing table, left the room to get a washcloth, and DD fell off onto the hardwood floor.  But that is not the part that makes me win -- the horrible part is that SHE NEVER TOLD US and did not admit it when confronted.  We came home from work, she was rocking DD as if nothing happened.  I noticed she was acting weird and when I came close, she said DD got a fat lip from falling forward while sitting up on the floor.  I took her, fed her, she seemed fine, I didn't think too much of it.
The next morning, our almost-3 year old woke up, ran into our room and reported "[baby sister] fell off her changing table onto the ground and bled all over!! Her face smashed on the floor and she screamed and screamed and bled and bled!!"  He was very excited to tell this news.

MIL denied it.  Said the 3 year old made it up.  Which was totally unfathomable to us.  DH found a bloody washcloth in the bathroom trash can.  She claimed she had no idea where it came from.

We took DD to the pediatrician, who said that since the fall was more than 3 feet, she should have been observed overnight.  But she was fine. MIL still denied it.  FIL claimed he was not there.  We did not speak to them for 6 months.  (They live 8 hours away.)  Slowly, the relationship has repaired.  Kind of.  I still sometimes can barely stand the sight of her, but we do allow visits (I try to limit to every 8-12 weeks or so, but they try and come more often) and visit them 2x per year.  I try and think of it this way -- she is basically a good caretaker.  She made a mistake, and was so incredibly scared that we would cut her off from seeing them, that she lied.  And  then, she couldn't go back on her lie despite it coming out.  She is an insecure and sad person.  So I try to  think of it that way instead of staying mad at her forever, which I easily could do.  The kids are older now (3.5 and 5.5) and I don't feel they are in danger when they are with her. I do think she is a liar, but I don't think she would (or could) get my 5.5 year old to lie about something to me.

Oh, she also cut DS's hair for the first time without permission, took DS to see Santa for the first time (while telling us she was going to the library), forces her religion on my kids, makes weight comments to me.....and she's racist and classist. 
I win, right??  [/quote]

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