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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I make a macaroni and cheese that ppl in my family love, MIL included. She asked me if I would make it for thanksgiving dinner. I said ok. Asked her if I could make it at her house and she agreed, and even offered to get the groceries needed for it. Dh and I get over to her house, she tells me that "the groceries are over on the counter, but the mixing bowls, casserole dish etc are dirty and You should wash them."

I found this incredibly rude. I'm Not your maid! [/quote]
Good Gravy, I can see my mom saying this to me, it's family big deal.
People are so sensitive about stupid stuff.[/quote]

+1 This is something that happens all the time at my mother or MIL's house. If she just cooked a meal for a dozen people I would feel bad not helping with the dishes. What pisses me off is when my husband doesn't help out. Just because you have a penis doesn't mean you can't help in the kitchen.[/quote]

It's far more appropriate to ask your own child to clean/do something rather than your daughter in law.
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Oh come on! If you've been married for a few years it's perfectly acceptable for your MIL to ask that. It's a lot of work to cook a meal for everyone, it's no big deal if you have to clean up the bowls before cooking.[/quote]

Yep.  [/quote]

+1  Keep in mind your MIL is in the middle of cooking everything else for Thanksgiving.  I hosted (not a MIL, but a DIL) and I was so grateful for people who helped wash and cook.  I probably ordered a few people to do this.

Now if you had come in to cook the whole meal and your MIL had saved up her dirty dishes for you to do before you got started, I'd have another impression entirely. But I am really shocked at the ingrate responses to washing a mixing bowl or two that your MIL, who will be wining and dining you, had just used.
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