I love a good challenge...

My husband's mother was perhaps one of the biggest challenges of my life. Eccentric would have been a good description. We have lots of good stories but my favorite one was the year we decided that since my in-laws loved music and movies, we would get her a gift certificate to the biggest media store in our town. She could select from hundreds of movies and cds. Convinced we had purchased the perfect gift, we were disappointed when she told us not to get her any more gift cards. She said she preferred to pick out her own movies and music. Excuse me? We had learned not to question, it didn't pay, we never won. We still laugh about it.