too close...much too close.

I love my in-laws!  I'm pretty sure that I have the best of the best!

We have good days and iffy ones.  I am thrilled with them right now, the are taking the kids for the night!  Date night here we come!

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I love my MIL. She's pretty awesome. Not too nosey. Doesn't tell me how to raise my kids and she's great with them.

 My FIL, on the other hand.... Let me just tell you this: He lives in the Houston area. We live in the DFW area. That's about a 4-5 hour drive. One Wednesday morning I was nursing the baby and getting her down for her nap when the doorbell rings. I ignore but they don't go away. They kept ringing that darned doorbell. It ended up being my FIL! We had no idea he was coming to town and he stayed until Sunday!!! Good things we didn't have anything planned that weekend.

I have the bad end of the deal....My husband...he's got the good end of the deal!

We have a lot of ISSUES with the in-laws. She favors the SIL and her husband over us and oh geez...I'll just stop b/c I will get so flippin' mad and trust me you don't want to hear all about it!

Ok...I'll give you a glimpse. When we had SecretAgent he was over an hour old before we could hold him...they were having a hard time slowing his breathing. Honestly I wasn't thinking about letting everyone in the waiting room know he was born...I was worried about HIM, not to mention they were still getting me cleaned up and stuff! So when MIL finally got to come in...she busted through the door and immediately began telling us how selfish we were by waiting so long blah blah..everyone was worried...we were thinking of no one but ourselves...she was SCREAMING!!! The nurse looked at me like what the crap!? They live 4.5 hours away and trust me...I LIMIT their time with us!

I love my in-laws.  They're supportive, treat us like adults, are great to the children, yet they respect boundaries. 

Love them.  Plenty of distance, though it's only 20 miles.
Plus, my MIL never had any girls either, so she's sort of adopted me as daughter/shopping buddy (ie someone to spoilw/ shopping trips!)
:)

Not crazy about my ILs.  Not bad people.  They are good to me, good to my kids.  But pretty selfish, in my opinion.  They live about 3 hours from us and always want us to come to them.  They whine about not getting to see the kids enough but they don't want to put forth the effort.  They are insanely jealous of my parents and their relationship with my kids.  But my parents do the work.  I feel like they just don't understand that we can't always pick up and go with 2 small children, one who is now getting into sports and has games on the weekend.  Not to mention how hard it is to travel with them at times.  I guess I'm mostly frustrated with the ILs.  Very frustrated.  

i have a good relationship with my in laws. can talk to them easier than my mom. luckily we live at lest 8 hours away so that helps. she is a little over protective so it helps that we do not live close. i do have amazing in laws who would do anything for anyone