Christmas with the Mother-in-Law from Hell
Spending the festive period with the mother-in-law from hell, who dislikes you immensely as you have corrupted her son (we live together), and strictly enforces a no shenanigans (no kissing, no touching and no sex!) rule while you are in her house... Which of course means we have to get inventive!
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CHAPTER 1
I call her Ma Law for short just not to her face obviously, because she would so not approve of me calling her Ma but she certainly does lay down the law!
So this year we are off to Ma Laws for Christmas... We alternate between his mum and my mum every year, although Ma Law would be so much happier if I spent every Christmas with my family and her beautiful boy spent every Christmas with her, and yes she really does call him her beautiful boy even though he has begged her a million billion trillion times not to!
Me and the beautiful boy have been together for over 10 years now, and living in sin (her description) for 8 of those, so you would think she would have accepted me by now but you would be very wrong!
For the first couple of years I used to get upset when she criticised absolutely everything about me, and I mean everything - have you ever been told your earlobes are not your best feature?
But I don't get as upset anymore as I try not to take it so personally now, because I have realised that whoever his partner was they would get exactly the same treatment as she gives me.
I also try to avoid making the beautiful boy feel like he needs to choose me over his mum as that would not be fair on him, as it isn't his fault that she says some crazy shit sometimes. But he does always stick up for me when necessary which I am thankful for.
And the one true positive from having the Ma Law from hell is that there is no bigger sign or declaration of how much I really do love him than going to stay with her for Christmas!
In some ways going to Ma Laws will be lovely, as it is always nice to spend time and catch up with the rest of his family as they actually do like me, and she lives in the countryside so it makes a nice change from city living.
And the food is always fantastic and I won't have to do a thing to help, because as you can see from previous years I can't help as I do every single thing wrong - so very very wrong...
Food prep - I throw away most of a potato apparently when peeling it, as I am SO heavy handed with the knife that I remove most of the potato with the skin, and I am SO slow prepping the carrots and brussels sprouts that I should have started last Christmas to have them ready for this Christmas...
Cooking - If I offer to help with the cooking she looks horrified and can't get me out of the kitchen fast enough.
My first Christmas at her house I brought a homemade lemon drizzle cake (yum!), which was pushed to the back of a cupboard and never eaten. So now every year I make her a Christmas cake (traditional Christmas fruitcake) and tell her that her beautiful boy made it, and as he is good in the kitchen she believes me, and to her it is the best thing ever made! And do I get great pleasure seeing her eat it and imagining what her reaction would be if I told her I had made it - Hell yes!
Setting the table - I leave great big fingerprints all over the glasses and cutlery (I don't), and there is more artistry displayed in the fur balls her cat produces than my attempts at swan napkins and table centre pieces...(what an insult though! I have to give her kudos for that one).
Clearing the table/washing up - I can't do this correctly either as I am too rough when handling great-great-great-auntie Philomena's fine china dinner plates, the water isn't hot enough and I use too much washing up liquid...
I could go on but I think you get the message she sends.
So basically I get to eat loads, drink, watch tv, hang out with the nice in-laws and play games with the nieces and nephews which makes me the cool auntie.
But the downside is that she really doesn't approve of me because she thinks I am not good enough for her beautiful boy (there isn't a woman on this planet that would be), and she is never shy about letting me know that. And even though I don't let it upset me anymore it still isn't very nice to listen to...
And apparently I have corrupted her beautiful boy, as we are not married and living in sin (but if we told her we were getting married she would probably die!).
And as I am such a morally corrupt person she refuses to let us share a bedroom (no matter what her beautiful boy says/pleads).
So I sleep in the spare room and he sleeps in his old bedroom which is kept as a shrine to her beautiful boy circa age 15, with his AC/DC, Guns N' Roses and Metallica posters still on the walls (posters of scantily clad women were taken down immediately, as were the Slipknot posters as they would cause nightmares apparently).
His sister's bedrooms were turned into spare rooms the moment they had all moved out but any suggestions of changing his bedroom are totally ignored.
And of course her bedroom is between mine and his, I swear she has done something to the floorboards outside her bedroom as they creak alarmingly loudly when you get within 10 feet of them so trying to creep from one room to another gets you caught EVERY single time!
As we live several hours away from her (luckily for me), we don't see her very often during the year so when we go for Christmas we usually stay for at least 3 days.
I do feel sorry for her as she is now on her own since her husband died 4 years ago, and even though all her daughters live fairly local they are busy with their own families and work etc, and also I want the beautiful boy to spend time with her so he doesn't feel guilty or have regrets in the future when she is no longer here.
Which is why with the way Christmas falls this year we will be staying for 5 nights, (and only having to use a day and a half holidays from work!) - what have I done! The Ma Law from hell and no sex for 5 nights, I blame the cocktails I had been drinking when I suggested this.
The beautiful boy was aghast when I said it, especially as I said it very loudly (the cocktails...) while he was on the phone to his mum, and once she heard staying for 5 nights there was no going back - even if it does include me as well!
Every time we stay there we never manage to have sexy alone time as she somehow always manages to block us spending any time together alone.
We even brought mistletoe with us one year just to have an excuse to kiss, until it was confiscated by you know who...
While trying to placate the beautiful boy (and myself as well) at the prospect of no sex/touching/kissing for so many days I have set us the seemingly impossible task of breaking the Ma Law no shenanigans under her roof rule!
Where there is a willy there must be a way...
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Christmas Eve -
Q - How to piss off your Ma Law before you even get there?
A - Leave home over 3 hours later than we originally planned, because we keep having sex one more time just in case we can't break the no shenanigans rule and while we still can...
β Sleepy slow lazy good morning sex which is always a perfect way to start the day.
I thought I was having the most amazingly erotic dream until I was awake enough to realise it was you touching me for real and not a dream.
We are spooning and you are pressed in tight against my back, with one leg in between mine, kissing the back of my neck and shoulder while running your hand very lightly up and down my side.
Then when you know I am waking up you start to lightly touch my breast closest to you as well, before starting to squeeze it and play with my nipple.