[cookiemonster]

I think the hardest thing for me about being awake (granted, I'm not read up on the EXTENT of all the conspiracies, but I know enough to know that the government is out to get all of us) is being alone with my MIL when she gets in a lecture mood about something about which she feels strongly. I'm on a trip right now with the boys and husband's family, and I'm all alone!!!

She knows there's something wrong with the government, but that seems to be about as far as she takes it. She (and others) won't understand our distrust and paranoia about cops and the government in general. That gets really hard for me when I'm the only one awake in a group of people.

Today's lecture was about vaccines....She can't understand why we haven't vaccinated our boys yet. Now, we are going to give them tetanus without the pertussis. She feels VERY STRONGLY that we should vaccinate against polio and rubella (telling me that if I were ever pregnant in my first trimester around someone with rubella, our unborn baby WILL have defects...). You know, Horseshoe3 and I are not stupid about vaccines, and she's acting as if we don't care about the health of our children!!

She tries to get into my head about her ideas every so often when I'm "cornered", and it gets very frustrating when I'm the one more awake than she is!!