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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree strongly with the helping. I've noticed that when my MIL comes to visit or when we are all on vacation, she is always sitting, waiting to be served and catered to. A particular vacation sticks out where we rented a large OBX-type house and needed to be out of the house and have everything cleaned up in an hour. She sat on the couch and read the paper. Everyone around her was frantically doing dishes, collecting trash, making laundry piles.

And she sat there.[/quote]

God, I have the opposite problem with my MIL.  She literally will NOT sit down in my house.  She didn't even sit at Christmas.  She just hovers over people like a lurking butler, waiting to do something for someone.  She completely does not get the concept that she is a GUEST in my house -- she acts like the hostess...but even I as the hostess will sit down and enjoy the dinner!  Meanwhile, she just stands up and lurks and waits to refill someone's cup.

She asks what she can do or bring to events at our house, and if I say, "Please, we have it covered, please just come and enjoy yourself..." she will still bring dishes of food, paper napkins, paper plates, water bottles, etc.  The problem is she is a chain smoker so everything REEKS from her house - even plastic bags!  I have tried to think of things that I could assign to her but all of it comes smelling awful.  And frankly it's just an insult when she brings her own freaking WATER as if I don't provide water to my guests.

I just wish she would sit the hell down and have a conversation rather than hovering over all of us, waiting to do people's bidding or warn us that we might trip on our way to the fridge.[/quote]

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