Psychotomy

My mother in law has been breaking my house for nearly two weeks now. she’s been cleaning, organizing, MOVING things.

My silverware drawer. How hard is this? it has little trays, right? somehow she totally futzed the drawer up, none of my silvers in the right place. I know it’s small and piddling, but it’s just one example. The glasses, carefully organized. Three times THIS WEEK i’ve had to move things BACK to being organized.

And WTF blocks in the drinking glasses with multiple measuring cups? wtf? no. just no. she’s “cleaning up the counters so you can cook” by making it impossible to use the DISHES! We have 3 sizes of plates (large dinner, “salad”, and snack). They were in two piles: large and salad, and snack separate b/c we have a bunc hof them (and we didn’t used to have the salad). I go to get a plate last night, and the salads are on top of SOME of the snacks, and snacks are in two other places (that i’ve found so far). differently shaped bowls are stacked willy-nilly.

and she’s only been in the kitchen for yesterday??? before that, when we were at the hospital, she was painting. one of K’s leashes went AWOL over a week ago. The one I use, no less :o She swears she hasn’t thrown [b][i]anything[/i][/b] away … which begs the question of “oh? then what was the 10 bags of trash you generated when we weren’t home????” :o

I love her, don’t get me wrong. And I appreciate that she’s helping. And I really appreciate that she throws money at her daughter and grandchild like it’s red bills and tomorrow we switch to blue again or something. But what’s wrong with leaving my house to me? “you’re not going to have any time to clean [ever again]” … funny, you did when you had 4 kids, and I only have 1 …

And K’s suddenly fallen from being “such a smart puppy” who she takes on walks whenever she’s here to “he’s just a dog, he’s not that bright, he’ll forget all about whatever and get food from the baby” … in a year … yeah …

and lets not get into how “surprisingly” well i’m doing taking care of the baby

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