Sunday, November 10, 2013

Mother-in-law Chronicles day 4

Today is day 4 of the invasion. First let me say this, my mom-in-law is a nice person, kind and generous too. It's the other part of her personality that's something else. She is set in her ways and in the way she sees things. One of her quirks is people's eating habits. She eats healthy and thinks the rest of us should too. I love food. I love to eat and yes, I can stand to lose a few pounds, but being tsk tsk'd when I walk into a candy store or eat a snack cake is rather irratating. It's awful to know that everything you pop into your wagon at the supermarket is being quietly tabulated for it's unhealthyness in someone else's mind. Perhaps I'll need to join a 12 step program soon because it has gotten to the point I am hording and hiding snacks. Candy safely tucked away in my craft supplies, a recently rereleased creamy dream cake in the hall closet and chips stored quietly in the petfood cabinet. Unfortunatly I cannot do much to hide the ice cream (insert exasperated "Uuuugh!!!" right here) Like an alcoholic hiding bottles around the house, I have snacks and candy here and there, burying things like a frantic squirrel who knows winter is almost here. Before this, I never realized how fast I could shove food in, or how much, just so no one would see me eating! There is a bag of nacho chips calling my name right now but she is sitting between me and the cabinet.. Should I go for it and know I am being judged as I happily crunch away or await her afternoon nap? Sigh. Thinkng.. Thinking.. Halleluia it's naptime! Thank you jetlag! C'mere you crunchy bag of nacho-ee goodness :)