Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
and 2) - - i am a negative nilly. just about everything they say or suggest, i say the opposite (see above, for example - i could have just internally rolled my eyes and enjoyed posting on dcum, but i HAD to say something)... its almost a disease. I found that I couldn't let anything go... now, some of it was truly my beliefs - they're anti-organic and like to get into big debates with me about what's wrong with pesticides, so, in that case, disagreeing with them merely upholds my personal position, but sometimes, i found myself disagreeing regardless of what was being said.

something to work on before the next trip - we have to go see them for a week in august.

I'm like this with my FIL. We are oil and water. I have no idea why, but he's bring out my ornery side.

. I am like this with MIL.

It is as if I feel a very strong need to be an "other," not to be like her. To distinguish myself from her.

Glad you survived. Hope the guests were satisfied with the pastries. For their next visit, I highly recommend Trader Joe's frozen croissants for the morning feeding.