Someone's teething, and my mother-in-law is visiting. By the way, for those who don't know or have f…

Someone's teething, and my mother-in-law is visiting. By the way, for those who don't know or have forgotten (it's been three years, after all): she once arrived unannounced and called my husband to surprise him with the news. He was napping then, so he forwarded the call to me. But he didn't know I was also snoozing in the living room (we have this habit of napping for an hour after lunch). My phone was on silent, so she couldn't reach me, and she left without achieving anything, so to speak. The story turned out to be absurd and funny from all angles: 1) she had the nerve to call from the doorstep, announcing her arrival, but for some reason decided not to knock, even though she knew we were both home (if she had come, she could have woken her son if she couldn't reach me... and I would have woken up too, and she would have reached the door))) and 2) her son, who unlike me, at least knew his mom was hanging around outside, got off with just a boycott. I, who found out about all this a couple of hours later, received a few angry voice messages with the usual threats ("just wait until your daughter grows up and treats you the same way"). Well, whatever, honestly – three years of silence were worth it. Now she's decided it's time to forget old grudges and invited her son over, providing a "material" reason: she's not young anymore, anything can happen – the heir needs to know where the millions are buried. Just kidding, though the gist was something like that. Of course, I wasn't invited anywhere (I'm clearly still holding a bigger grudge). I'm not *that* upset about being overlooked (in any case, my husband was instructed to say I was working that day, no matter what day the visit was). But I couldn't help but notice that she didn't mention her granddaughter in the initial messages either. The very same darling, beloved little bird, over whom she once even threatened to sue me: she announced her visit on a day I was busy, and because of that, she decided I was preventing her from seeing her precious grandchild and declared war on me in court. My husband, of course, took our daughter with him – after all, the child barely remembers her grandmother anymore. But the moment itself was telling. Long story short, I feel like a new era in my relationship with my mother-in-law is dawning.