Sweet Inlaws

My MIL is wonderful. We get along very well and she's like a S. mom to me. She watches my kids once a week so I can work and will watch them additional days if needed although I try not to ask her too much to not take advantage of her. She will go out of her way to help us and support us anyway she can. She will seriously do anything for us! And I appreciate how she often tells me that my husband and I are doing a great job with the kids and that I am a good mom. I feel really lucky to have her. I enjoyed reading the comments on the annoying IL thread, but I couldn't in good conscience post on it! I would have felt too guilty complaining about such a nice person! lol

31 weeks into my fourth pregnancy we discovered that our daughter passed away. We managed to pull the money together for her funeral and the cemetery. We buried her between my MIL's parents. When all was said and done we didn't have the money to put a headstone on her grave. It did't help that the cemetery that she was buried in had very strict rules about headstones. The one required was going to be extremely expensive. My in-laws came to me and said that I could pick out any headstone I wanted and they were going to pay for it all. I can't begin to express how thankful I was.

My MIL stepped up and was SO supportive and loving when my own dear Mother was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer. I am an only child and live 70 miles away from my Mother, my own children were still in school,so I was not able to just go and stay there with her like I wanted to. My MIL lived in the same town and she and my FIL started bringing meals to my Mom 4 or 5 times a week, taking her to the grocery store, and just being my Mom's friend and support system!! It was so above and beyond what anyone could asked her to do ( especially since they had not been good friends with each other through the years...they just met up whenever one of our family events brought them together ). I will always ALWAYS love her for the precious way that she helped take care of my dear Mother during the last months of her life.
Thank you Mom!!!

i have a hard time understanding all the questions about bad in laws. because i have the best mother in law. she does things to spoil me. i get great gifts for christmas and my birthday. she is so good to even my mother. my mother in law in 86 this year and still drives stick. i do have alot of fun when i'm with my mother inlaw. my son adores her and so does my husband of course. so hats off to all the great in laws that are out there!!!!

My MIL is like a S. mother to me. She would do anything for me or the kids, or hubby for that matter. I tease her and my FIL that I am the fav daughter in law, I am the only DIL.
I sit here in tears today, I just answered GG about her grief over her Dad. My MIL was diagnosed with stage 2 uterine cancer yesterday.
I love her and the thought of losing her is just too much to bear right now.

So lately she has make all our curtains for my new house. I send her the measurements of my windows and what kind of material I want and she goes to town.
She made our wedding cake 18 years ago, and my SIL's wedding dress. She made clothes for the kids when they were little. They bought a deep-freezer because I complained that I didn't have one like hers.
THe best thing she (they) have done is accept my son as their grandchild. He is not my hubby's but she has never cared, he was a little boy, now a grown man, and she is his grandma through and through.

I absolutely adore my mother-in-law! We are so alike it is somewhat scary
:-) They don't live close to us so we don't see them a lot but we talk at least once a week (usually via Skype so the grandkids can see her). Anyway, my mil & her husband (she & my husband's dad are divorced) are honestly doing nice/thoughtful things for us; sometimes there is great monetary value to it and other times there is great sentimental value. She has been taking painting classes & is quite good so she is painting a picture for us as well as ones for the kids.She truly listens and is interested in our lives and remembers things that interest us. Monetarily the largest gift (completely unexpected or asked for) was a 2010 Nissan Versa they bought us, totally free and clear. Man, I loved that car but we had to trade it in for something bigger when #3 got here. WOW - I am super blessed to have them in my life!

Me, too! I have great in-laws. They are very generous and super sweet with our daughter (their only grand daughter). While they are quirky about some things, I chalk that up to just being different than me in some ways. I do read alot of the in-law problems on this board and it reminds me that to appreciate the good people who I gained as relatives when I married my husband!

My in-laws are wonderful. My husband is an only child and they really treat me like a daughter. My MIL really wanted to go to Hawaii for her 60th...it was also the same year as our 5th wedding anniversary, my husband's 30th birthday, and our son's 1st birthday. So, my in-laws paid for all of us to go to HI for 10 days. My husband is deployed right now and February was kinda rough for me--I have three boys (5, 3, 8 months). My mom was coming in March, but my MIL sensed I needed a break, so she flew out here for a long weekend. They also paid for my last year of Grad school. Hubby and I paid for the first year and they offered to pay for the S.. They said they didn't get to pay for my husband to go to college (he went to West Point undergrad and the Army paid for his Master's degree), so they wanted to help. They are so wonderful and I really appreciate our close relationship.

I love my inlaws dearly, but of course they do things that annoy me at times. I'm sure I annoy them too on some level. =)
I had known my BF for years before we even dated, but I was only introduced to his mom and dad after we started dating. I got pregnant three months after we started dating. So to them it seemed fast, they didn't know me....and to top it all off we were in a long distance relationship, so I only had weekends to visit.
They really didn't *know* me, ya know what I mean.
The day before the baby shower my MIL and SIL were throwing for me, my dad died. I had to take off and go home, and all I can say is my MIL, FIL and SIL all did a lot for me. They really made me feel loved and like I was part of their family. =)

I don't have inlaws anymore so I have stolen my sisters!!! :-) They are amazing and my sister adores them. They take her kids every Thursday all day, helps them out whenever they need it and are soooo generous. They have adopted me and my dd too!! :-) My dd gets her birthday, easter and Christmas gifts from them and she calls them granny & grandad and my bil's brothers are Uncles ..... to my dd too. They are the kind of people who would hug you in the street for no reason. lol

You are so touched by your MIL just because she told you she wanted you to go to Sea World with the family? It doesn't take much to flatter you! About the driving arrangements - you are going to let your son make a 9-hour drive with family without you being the same car as him? He doesn't know these family members too well, right? He might get upset and want at least you or you husband in the car w/ him. Since you live far away from family, how is this going to happen? Are they going to fly to you and then drive your son to FL from your house?

Anyway, my inlaws are not nice, so I don't have any sweet stories. I just don't understand your driving to FL w/o your son situation. He will need you!