Lying...

If there's one thing I can't stand...it's lying.

One lie leads to another, then to another, then to another and soon you have a 6' snowball full of lies heading straight down hill.

I also consider "covering" as lying, especially in the matter of my Monster-In-Law...

She's one of those people that is all about appearances and how she can never say what she means and usually has a passive aggressive round about way to get at her point. She always has to look better than everyone else and lead that life...(little does everyone know, however...)

Take the big saga over the holidays for example...

We told my Sister-In-Law that we'd take her on a cruise for her 21st birthday as our gift to her. It's a big one, she's grown so much in the last year and hasn't had a good year so we thought, "Yeah, let's do something special for her." Of course, we asked MIL and FIL to come along.

I plan out the dates, the cruise, the airfare, the cost for every category state room because, MIL was saying, "Oh that would be so nice to have everyone go on a cruise...wow, 1400.00 with airfare isn't bad at all!!" It literally takes me days with the travel agent to plan all of this out.

Finally, when hubby is on the phone with his dad about getting the deposits squared away does the truth come out.

Monster-In-Law doesn't want to go.

Why?

Wait for it...

Wait for it...

Ready??

She's "scared" of water.

Yep. I could actually believe that she's scared of water if she hasn't been out on our boat a half a dozen times...or all of the times she's been swimming with us present...

Just. Tell. The. Truth!