As I posted in lbarr's thread a few days ago, my FMIL apparently was on another planet for the past few months and now has all the shower plans confused. Back in Nov or so, she asked who was throwing my shower. I told her my mom planned to do a small one with a few close people from each side. Well, FMIL loves to throw parties because she loves attention, so she told me she wanted to throw one for me too. We picked a date, and agreed that hers was for one side of the family, and my mom would do our side of the family since FMIL insisted on throwing one.
Over the weekend, she asked when was a good time to contact my mom about shower plans. I said "You know she is doing her own right?" Suddenly she got all confused and said she thought she and my mom were having one for both sides. I re-explained what happened and she was totally lost. Where have you been!?!?! We have talked about this!!!! She texted me yesterday and asked how long my mom has been planning her own shower and I told her AGAIN that it was my mom's idea all along and that she (FMIL) chose to host her own! She was also a little upset to find out that my BMs don't live here and are not interested in my wedding at all (except MOH but she is busy).
FMIL texted FI yesterday to say that she went out and bought decorations. I feel bad that she got confused but I am not sure how she did when we have been talking about these two showers for MONTHS. Do I offer to help her? FI and I were going to meet with her to try to clear this up since now she feels like she is in some big hurry to do it all (the shower is in July so I dont know what the rush is). I don't want to seem ungrateful but it's amazing to me that suddenly she had no idea what was going on. To make matters worse, I tried to talk to FSIL about it and she got a little mad that I am having 2 showers and she is only getting one. She didn't understand either that it was her mother who got this all confused.