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[quote=Anonymous]Op here. Thanks, lots of good suggestions. I’m exhausted and I hate hosting company when I’m sleep deprived. I have no reserves left and then MIL comes and exhausts me further. I should add that on top of this My MIL also has a ton of food issues. She can’t cook to save her life and eats only organic, gluten free and dairy free and vegetarian which makes cooking meals when she’s here impossible. She also obsessively monitors what everyone else eats and is constantly asking me what the kids are eating. And then at mealtime she stares at and obsessively monitors what I and DH and the kids eat. And she refuses all alcohol and dessert and makes a big production about how “rich” the foods we eat are and they don’t agree with her and make her feel ill to eat. So Larla will say Grandma why don’t you eat meat? And we all have to eat a lecture about how bad meat is. And then Larla will say, have ice cream Grandma! And she will go on about how dairy is too rich and makes her feel ill. Maybe if I could have a glass of wine or some dessert or even dinner without her staring at me or peppering me endlessly (what’s Larla eating right now? At snack time for instance) and monitoring me because she clearly has some undiagnosed eating disorder I wouldn’t mind her presence so much. Or if she’d cook for herself and not expect us to cater to her insane diet. So I guess that just fuels my fire. [/quote]

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