I am a lucky, lucky girl.  I hear so many moms out there complain about their mother-in-laws, they have such shaky relationships.  And sometimes it’s downright hostile.  But I lucked out.  My mother-in-law is downright fabulous.  I’ve always gotten along great with my in-laws.  We don’t always agree on everything (see: politics), but for the most part, our views are very similar.  We can hang out together and get along very easily.  And my mother-in-law, well, she just rocks.  Case in point: 

• She turned a bunch of prefold diapers I had into prefitteds.  That probably doesn’t mean anything to those of you who don’t cloth diaper but to me?  A big deal. 
• She also helped me by turning some long sleeved onesies into t-shirts and sewing up a pair of baby legwarmers I was working on with her sewing machine. 
• She went to see “Twilight” with me last night, even though my husband didn’t want to, and even though she had no idea what the books were about or anything.  And she liked it!
• She cut my hair for me today.  She fixed the front layers so it’ll grow in a lot nicer.  And, dare I say it?  It looks cute.  WOW.  There’s a first (at least in the last six months). 
• She taught me how to knit!  Well, okay, I’m still learning.  But I learned how to cast on and do a garter stitch today.  Hopefully I’ll remember it all.  I still have a lot to learn but it’s a good start. 
• We went to Walmart this evening to get some dinner fixin’s and while there, she had me pick out a new watch as my birthday present (just a little over two weeks from now!).  I haven’t had a working watch in months and the one I picked out is just beautiful.  It’s a darkish, burnished brown color and I can’t stop looking at it, it’s so pretty.  Oh yeah, and it tells time.  Bonus!  

I got to see “Twilight” last night!  No thanks to my loving husband.  My dear mother in law offered to go see it with me.  And it was so exciting to get to go see it on the opening day.  I didn’t even know what to expect, actually.  I was almost afraid to get my hopes up too much.  I know how hard it is to fullfill fan expectations in book-to-movie situations such as this.  I didn’t want to get my hopes up too much.  But I also didn’t want to be stubborn and dampen any thrill of actually seeing the movie either.  So I felt oddly keyed up, sitting in the theater, waiting for the movie to begin. 

There was a good crowd there, a lot of pre-teen girls, quite a few 30-something women.  But there were men too.  Most likely dragged by their significant others.  But they didn’t have a long-suffering look to them, so one can only figure that they weren’t entirely opposed to seeing it (unlike some people I know).  everyone was feeling rather festive.  There were a lot of smiles.  The line waiting to go into the theater was long, but orderly and the crowd wasn’t actually that obnoxious.  I was pretty pleased.  

The Harry Potter trailer?  Awesome.  Of course.  I’m still annoyed that it’s been moved to July, but it looks as though it will be worth the wait.  And hey, at least now we can go see it in the drive-in.  Bonus!

Okay, so here’s what I thought of the movie.  I’m going to put it behind a “more” tag, so if you haven’t seen it and don’t want to know, don’t click through.  Mmkay?