How nice for you. My MIL critizies my house, forgets my birthday (for 25 years) and expects us to pay for dinner weather we visit her or she visits us. She missed out on her generation's lesson of a clean house and a helping hand.

My dad, at the same age as your dear mother-in-law did what she does, and muttered the slobnik mantra-- with affection-- about me. And my grandfather did it to my mom. It skipped one generation & landed on my son, who comes home from college and proceeds to mutter & mop.
Thanks Lenore and happy Thanksgiving!