Am I the only woman who frantically cleans for her mother in law? I scrub the showers even though she will never use them, I vacuum every room even though she wont go into each of them, I dusts the spare bedroom even though she isn't spending the night in there. Its my father in laws birthday so we are baking a cake and Ive been cleaning all day. I don't know why I always feel a need to scrub everything when my in laws come but I do. Its not because they care how clean my house is, I mean lets face it I'm already in the family they cant throw me out, their son already married me, shared his last name with me, and knocked me up. I know they love me and accept me because their will has my name all over it, mostly because I crossed out everyone else's name and put mine in its place(not really). Back to my point, I feel this need to clean more than I do when its my family that visits. My family knows I'm a slob. I know I'm not the only one that does this. I wonder if my mother in law cleaned for her mother in law? This is a vicious vicious cycle that someone other than me needs to stop because lets face it here in Ohio she is our only saving grace should we need help with the kids so I cant stop cleaning now the kids aren't old enough to take care of themselves.
Its strange to admit because I usually only hear the opposite but I actually like my inlaws. They are still married so that in itself is something to respect. I finally stopped calling them Mr. & Mrs. Bolin after they insisted I stop. That was a hard one especially growing up in the south I was taught that anyone older than yourself should be referred to as mam, sir, Mr. or Mrs. After I started calling them by their first names I kept waiting for a slap on the back of the head or something from my parents. My mother in law and I can shop for hours and she has come to the understanding that I can keep up with her shopping as long as she feeds me. She has forgotten to feed me during our hours of shopping and all I remember is blur, stomach grumbles, visions of fries floating in my head and blood sugar to low that I almost passed out. The understanding is a mutual effort between us because
shopping + food= more shopping. You would think that since I get along with my in laws that the need to clean would fly out the window but it actually makes me want to clean even more. I wonder if the opposite would happen if I didn't get along with them if it would make me not want to clean. No time to find out now, I got toilets that need scrubbing.
