Oh My!! MIL was like that with everyone. We went to visit when oldest DD was 16 and her first comment to her was
"you've gained weight, haven't you?" This is not our thin DD, but one that struggles to keep her weight down. But at that time she was very active, a cheer leader and in no way over weight. Anyway, Grandma might just have well have reached over and slapped her in the face. I found her in the bedroom later crying. Had to take her for a drive and tell her Grandma is just a jealous person and it is her not you.
MIL did this to my yougest - then at 13 years - in fact Feb 24th of 2007 - I signed her up at 24 Hr - got her some training sessions - (she was having a rough time with the 8th grade girls then - you know rough age and all - their into boys big time) so anyway, right from the start - trainer taught her nutrition and within 90 days - this girl had gone from 173 down to 145. Then yesterday she weighed herself and turns out that she is down to 140 but this girl immersed herself into sports once she started high school.
MIL and FIL live in CO for 1/2 the year. They left just as DD started going to the gym. When they returned in Nov of '07 - you should have seen MIL's look of shock!
MIL is a sweetheart to my kids but she and I "
are from 2 different worlds." Her words not mine - It was so hilarious because this woman berated me for frivously spending $$ on something that you can achieve on your own.
My revenge? Found out later that she went and signed herself up at the gym (which I'd been telling her to do for years) AND hired onto the same trainer we used.
This more than makes up for the fact that she has her own weight issues and see "vertically-challenged" people as the incentive for her to lose weight - whatever that means. My philosophy? As long as your nice to my kids and don't talk about losing weight to them - your ok.
On our last cruise I took a lanyard of pins that I no longer cared a lot about. There was one 11 year old girl at our dinner table. She and her mother were from Mexico, knew limited English but did their best to communicate with us. I asked her if she was going to get some pins and she said her Mother said they were too expensive. I put a lanyard over hear head and transferred my expendable pins to her lanyard. The look on her face was PRICELESS.
OMG! What a wonderful idea! I too have a bunch of "expendable pins" thanks for the idea Jan!
I've come across many a kid on my sails that soon become "bitten" by the pin bug and the poor parents end up buying several to trade. Course, not sure how the parents would love me after.
For all the new folks, and any others who didn't know this, we are a prime example of the good luck that can happen regarding seating assignments on DCL! Tyler and I were assigned to the same table as Heather & family in Sept. '05. We hit it off so well we booked the same time the following year together and have visited a couple times in between there too.
Wow - sounds like me - in Sep of '06, went on the 11-Night SC - sat at a table of 14, turns out that I hit it off with 2 women at the table - and one sat way at the other end of the table. But since then, DisneySweetie and I have communicated almost everyday. Heck I even went to FL in May of last year - Mother's Day weekend to spend time with her and some other friends and we ended up doing the EB Trans-Atlantic together. Our "first girl outing together."
So yes people -
does happen. And I can only give DIS the credit - had it not been for this board - I would probably not have meet them or stayed as friendly with them. Pam and my motto? Two Peas in a Pod are as thick as thieves!
for all you guys with insensitive moms.
