How do you deal with crazy people??  I have what I would like to believe are well intetnioned in-laws who thank goodness live in Portugal a nearly 24 hour trip away from us, but they still can drive me to want to drink!  Yesterday we had our weekly chat with them via telephone and my mother-in-law as usual got all emotional when talking to me about Vanessa and had to go.  When I handed the phone back to my husband though, she got back on the phone and 'suggested' to my husband that we send Vanessa to them and they will look after her until she has to start school.  Okay so who in their right mind would think for even a second that that would be not only a viable option but a sane one?  What I don't get is that she has had children of her own, where does she even get the balls to ask me to send her MY kid??  Secondly it makes me feel like they don't think we can or are capable of raising our own kid.  Luckly for her my husband didn't tell me about the suggestion until after he got off the phone with her.  At first I think I was just dumbfounded that someone would even suggest something like that but the more and more I think about it the more and more I want to call her up and rip her a new one!  My husband thinks it is funny and doesn't get why I am so offended.  I get that they miss Vanessa and want to be a part of her life but if you want to have a baby, go and have another one of your own, adopt or something... don't think your going to get mine!!  Okay, I think I am done.....rant over.