Holy Crap, I finally caught up. Still sick but feeling good enough to finally lift my head

OK first thing first:
Happy Birthday Christinan
Happy Birthday Cindy
Happy Birthday Wyatt
Lorna

Sorry
Jeff you and Joey can bond on the cruise. It is a major event in this house when he is actually able to hang a picture. We do have tools but they are for other people to use.
As far as my MIL. Well for all you newbies she is just like Raymond's Mother on Everyone love Raymond. My house will never ever be clean enough for her and she often hurts herself cleaning my house since I don't do it right. My favorite MIL story happend last Christmas.
It was Christmas Eve and we were trying to work in the kitchen together

Yeah, I could do nothing right (not to mention she didn't seem to care about my seafood allergy) so I just decided to sit in my living room and watch TV, which of course pissed her off. So she starts making the sauce, she takes the blender out of the dishwasher and notices there is a hold in the bottom of it. She puts it on the base and figures that's how my "fancy" blender works. Well, she pours the tomatos in and turns it on. Yep, 2 cans of blended tomatos all over my kitchen. She didn't put the blades in!!!!!! Of course this was my fault because who takes the blades out of the blender when they wash it