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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. It’s the lack of boundaries that is bothering me—opening a package addressed to me is beyond. This will be her last time watching my kids without me around. She will never be alone in our house again. She has proven to be nosy and meddlesome and snoop-y before; this is the last straw.

Luckily we have no shortage of babysitters. My local aunt, my parents, my cousin, friends with whom we already swap overnight sitting duties, and a few trusted former daycare teachers. We didn’t need the “favor” from her; this was a way for she and FIL to spend quality time with the kids, which they ask for.

Oh well. She can’t be trusted alone in my house, so she never will be again.[/quote]

So you let this spoil your night out?

Let me guess you didn't really want her to sit, but your  husband talked you into it, and now you have a "justified" warpath.[/quote]

No, it’s not that at all. They actually stay with us once every other month or so, in non-pandemic times, and it’s usually to “host” them. So I have made holiday meals, cooked and cleaned, facilitiated their vacations, and done special favors for them like spending, I’m serious, a week doing the most to pack and deep-clean FIL’s mother’s house while they moved her into assisted living so that they could focus on the emotional side of that. So I do a lot for them, and the one time they’re actually doing us a favor, she opens my mail and eats my birthday present.

Would you seriously open someone’s mail and eat a gift someone else sent for their birthday? You really think that’s OK?[/quote]

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