My mother in law – she lives three doors down, is generally very good about not interfering with me and my husband, but today, me, my husband and my father in law headed to the home hardware store to pick up supplies for the “great tear out the stupid always leaking skylight” extravaganza.

We left her at the house to watch the kids.

We weren’t gone very long, half hour at the most, but by the time we got back home she had washed the dishes and swept the floors and even started to clean our youngest sons room! When i got back she was in the middle of tossing a pair of ripped up fake blood stained pair of pants! I took them out of the trash and explained that the pants were part of thekids costumes and that we were keeping them becuase we wanted to re use them next year

I checked the trash again, more thoroughly after she had left and am glad I had becuase she tossed a bag of baby clothes – I had been storing the boys “coming home” outfits in our youngest sons closet, and she must have figured that I had just forgotten them in the closet and was trying to help!

Don;t worry, I learned my lesson, I wont be leaving her alone again anytime soon!

(here is the zombie costume that the pants she was tossing belonged to)\