I really can't complain very much about MIL, she's quirky but mostly she's a positive force and I'm grateful for how she helps with the kids when we need it. But sometimes her judgement goes out the window. We were out of town last night and the kids had the first sleepover in forever at her house. This time she let them have a TV in their bedroom and she just said good night and went off to bed, it's like she treated them like her other grandchildren who are young adults. Of course they stayed up til forever watching and then after DS went to bed DD (8) drew all over his face (ok, that's kind of amusing) and confessed she had been up at least until 2am. I know it's close to the truth b/c MIL told us she had woken her up at 1am confessing to them not going to bed and DS has marker residue on his face. Sigh, imagine how well behaved at the end of the day today! Thankfully DH says he's going to nip this in the bud but it makes me feel like we can't really do sleepovers very often.