Really I am ok,...

Inevitably during the time that I am with my inlaws I will be accused in some sly way of being a lousy mother... It is part in parcel of the vacation experience...

My mothering skills came under fire for not taking away the computer from the Angel post her hormonal explosion...Having just spent three days trying to get the girl into a kotex I just was mentally without further resources... Luckily my mother-in-law knew exactly what I was doing wrong... Not bad for a woman who spent my husband's formative years drunk on the couch...

I go through this every year... I listen to the criticism... my husband tells me that I am not understanding the situation correctly (which I guess means I am an idiot as well..)

I have also been thanked for buying relish (per my mother-in-law it will end up in her fridge for the next three years) and I bought the wrong kind of bread... Both my in-laws had a discussion about the bread... (what is it? Is it Italian bread? Whereever did I get it?)

Luckily I will only be the foil of ineptness for the next week... then I am back to being stupid for just my immediate family....