My Grand-daughter is here!

She's Here! She's Here! My step-daughter-in-law is up from GA staying with us for the week with the baby! She really is just the cutest baby - big huge blue eyes and such a happy personality!

I LOVE telling people she's my grand-daughter! They look at the baby, look at me, and the shock on people's faces is just priceless! Then we mention that I as the mother-in-law am only 7 years older than the Mom of the baby!!!! It's really just too funny! I think it would bother me just a little if I was actually old enough to be anyone's grandmother but since I just turned 30 and my oldest biological son is only 7 - I can just enjoy it! Sometimes I love the fact that my husband had kids before we met - I got the big family I wanted and didn't have to go thru the pain of labor for 3 of them!

I am having my husband's family over tonight to meet the baby for the first time - I made it clear on several occasions that they were all welcome to stop by any night this week while she was visiting but not one them have taken me up on the offer. It's so frustrating dealing with them. This goes back to me going out of my way to do "the right thing" and getting NOTHING in return. Ugh!

My step-daughter-in-law perplexes me. My Mom made a comment that she starts almost every sentence with "my husband and I" or some version of that. It's sort of odd - like she has no independent thought except for what my step-son has agreed upon with her. And since he's been deployed to Iraq or the next year I don't know how this girl is going to cope with being what basically equates to a single Mom during that time. Is it a "southern" thing with her being from GA? The fact that she seems to define herself only as the wife/mother of another? She also went out and bought a whole new wardrobe for my step-son and he won't be back for 11 more months - very odd. Maybe it's just the situation with her husband off at war and this is her way of coping? I think I'd rather assume this is the case. I'm not really one to give ANY relationship advice, believe me, but it still worries me. I can only remind her that I am here if she needs to chat and for support when she needs it.

Anyway - I will be going to get the kids pictures done while she's up here since I don't really know when she'll be back and I am trying very hard just to enjoy the time with her and the baby while they are with us. Trying VERY hard to live by my new philosophy "no more drama".