For the first week of 2007 the topic comes from Marie, over at PractiGal.

"Tell us something about your in-laws (funny, memories, etc.). If you don't have any in-laws, pick a relative like siblings, parents, etc."

One of the funniest things that I remember about my Mother-In-Law was the time I first met her. It was over the Thanksgiving holiday. Mr. OWW were not married at the time, and we went to visit his folks for the holiday.

It was a big family get together, complete with "the boys," whom my Mother-in-Law had informally "adopted over the years. Keep in mind that these guys had known each other for quite some time, and some had even served in the Navy together.

During dinner, they started to tell really bad jokes, and some of them were, how shall we say, not something that should be told at the dinner table. Everyone was laughing and groaning, and my Mother-in-Law calmly got up from the table and went into the kitchen. When she came back into the dining room and had her hand behind her back. She walked over to one of the "boys" who was sitting closest to where she was standing and promptly started whacking him with a wooden spoon. At that point, all the boys quickly jumped up from the table and ran away. She then calmly went and got a glass of water.

I thought it prudent at the time to get out of the way, so I went and sat on the stairwell. My Mother-in-Law went after my husband who was doing his best to avoid her while laughing so hard he could hardly breathe. He spotted me on the stairwell and quickly got behind me, only my Mother-in-Law didn't realize that I was in front of him until it was too late. She through the water at him, which, since I was in front, landed squarely on me.

She was mortified but by that time, everyone was laughing so hard, including me, that she realized that I wasn't offended. Just wet.

Needless to say, she always would give me a warning before she ever went after one of the boys again.