Twinkle: Here's a Weird One

This is just bizarre.

So tonight we had two parties: a family cocktail party to celebrate the upcoming wedding of a distant cousin from California, and Twinklette's school fundraiser.

We went to the family cocktail party first, and MIL was just full of questions and commentary about the school fundraiser. Where was it? What time did it start? The silent auction items she heard about looked amazing! She was sure to mention that she would have loved to have been invited.

First of all, it's a fundraiser, so anyone who wants to pay the price of admission can go. It wasn't some big exclusive private party that we didn't invite them to. I'm pretty sure I didn't "invite" any of you girls, either...but if you'd wanted to you certainly could have paid at the door and gone. Second of all, it was the same night as the family cocktail party, which was attended by FIL's California cousins that he never sees. So we didn't make a big deal about them going to the school fundraiser, because we knew they had other plans. (Although, frankly if I'm going to be socializing with other parents, I don't need my MIL around salting my game). We somewhat wearily explained that grandparents are welcome but we knew they had a family commitment that night (can't she figure this sh*t out for herself?), which obviously was why we didn't issue them the formal engraved invitation they were expecting. Also, who can have fun with them around? But that's beside the point.

We left the one party and moved on to the next. We were browsing the silent auction items and ran into some friends of my in-laws, who informed us that my in-laws had been there!

So basically my MIL acted all miffed about not being invited--all the while having gone to the damn thing anyway--and then proceeded to ask us a lot of questions about it as if she had never been there. I don't care if she wants to go to the school fundraiser, but why not be up-front about it? Why act like she didn't go when she did? And then act all slighted that we didn't "invite" her when she had already disregarded the lack of an "invitation" and gone anyway!

So who knows how that sh*t went down when my in-laws showed up at the fundraiser as the doors opened at 6:30, before anyone except the hosts and volunteers had probably even gotten there. Where was the school fundraiser, you might wonder? Why, it was at the childhood home of...you guessed it...Bella's mom.