Talking about MIL -- Now don't get me started!
I guess MILs are the same globally! What to do, at least you guys be happy that you have to be with them only for a few days in a year...unlike here in India where majority of the families have a joint family system, mine included....
What to do, its all part of the package..
Hi Questers,
I'm living w/ my mine as well. But thanks God that she's a wonderful MIL. She doesn't interfers w/ my teaching & disciplining of my daughter. She knows when to be strict w/ her and doesn't spoil her rotten. (That's a great help to me!)

She also sacrifices her work in the afternoon to help me look after my daughter so that I can go to work.
Moreover, I do not know how to cook & do housework. (think that's a big NO NO for most MIL in S'pore as they are the traditional type) But she doesn't mind at all and sometimes even cook for me to eat! She is also the 1 who cooks for my daughter to eat. (I must have been a very lousy DIL)
My MIL is really a blessing to me! Hopefully I can be like her if I have the chance to be a MIL in future!