Gator Girl, please pardon me for saying this, but your mother-in-law sounds like a fool. What does she want to do, observe your child's death first hand? As a grandmother whose oldest grandchild is a college freshman, I can't even begin to imagine overriding my children's authority. While grandparents expect to be able to spoil their grandchildren in little ways, teaching them disrespect for their parents' rules is despicable. She obviously has a very mean streak--carrying on about how delicious peanut butter is--and I wouldn't leave any child alone with her for a minute. It's obvious this woman cannot be trusted to do what's best for her grandchild. How sad.
A few years ago Monica Crowley had a guest author on her radio program. He had written a book and unfortunately I cannot remember the title--seems to me it was all numbers. It referred to a supposedly hush-hush testing lab somewhere off Long Island which was in disrepair--holes in the roof, leakage around the building where bacteria/microbes, etc. could possibly escape. It was an expose of the danger this facility presented--how many lethal exposures there might have been.
I'm not a conspiracy wacko, but his entire premise was who knows what might have been accidently released into the environment over the years. For example, Lyme disease started in New England; he mentioned new diseases--how about West Nile Virus--I can't think of any others. But it did cause me to think. Guess I'll have to check Monica's web site to see if I can track it down!
She is kind of foolish--I agree. She has a mean streak. Luckily, she's the "step" and had nothing to do with raising my husband!
I don't think she understands the severity of the thing. She also thinks he might have "grown out of it".
My son is not a deprived child in any way. Peanut butter, smeanut butter!
Anyhow, thanks for the comments! ;-)