Having inlaws is a weird thing. They are my 'family' but they have no connection to me at the same time. Now mine are especially weird. Just in their very being. They have a very different way of.... living shall we call it.
A few weeks ago my sister inlaw ( my husbands brothers wife) calls and asks if they can come and visit for a few days. Well they have two girls the same age and younger than my daughter and we hadn't seen them in a few months, so I thought it would be nice.
A couple of days of cramped quarters is fine , right? In the name of family.
Well, they arrived a day early , without any warning. Now I am not Martha Stewart, but i do like to have my house looking nice when people come over to visit. Fine what ever.
Things seemed ok. The kids played , we went out to the park, had big dinners, you know 'family stuff'. Well two days turned into three, into four, into a week. What the hell? A few days?
My house at this point looked like a Walmart had exploded inside of it. There was crap everywhere. Clothes dirty and clean strewn all though out the house. My freezer was running low and my pantry looked like there had just been a war. Those two things amused me and pissed me off at the same time , because I didn't have 'anything to eat' or had 'the wrong kind of food'. So the fact that there was none shows that at least some was good enough.
To also give you a clear picture of this we live in a two bedroom place. Imean it's a large suite, 1200sqft, but still, it's not like a huge house where you have room to hide out. It a nice open place , thats why I liked it. But when you ahve to go into the bathroom to talk on the phone it becomes a little ridiculous.
So they are gone. Thank you God. But this leads me to think about the actuall title of who they are. The "INLAWS", to me this indicates that they are 'invited', 'in' on things , but really it just meant 'in' my house. So I have no begun to call them the 'outlaws' , as in 'out' of my house.
And as for the next time they come to visit, there is a nice little B&B just down the road.
