After 4th of July Update

Mother-in-law, Mother-in-law, Mother-in-law

What would we do without them?

She cooks my husbands favorite dinner

 Chicken and Dumpling's.

Good old chicken legs and thighs, not de-boned of course, 

no gristle and fat removed from the pot 

but boiled until it is so tender you couldn't tell anyways.

She would have made the dumpling part 

if I had flour in the house.

Eggs and Oil I have. Flour No. 

So canned biscuits had to do.

She also does laundry I might say. I imagine she would have put the clothes up too if she had known where they go. But overall, mother-in-law's can be a good thing - if they like you that is.

I've had my share of mother-in-law's and 

I see how my mom is to her daughter-in-law too.

If the mother-in-law has a beef with the daughter-in-law, 

well, 

lets just say the daughter-in-law is in for some trouble.

I don't know about you but I've had the good fortune 

of having a good mother-in-law right now. 

My ex-mother-in-law - not so good but I won't go there. 

Let's just say, being her first daughter-in-law was rough.

 So now, I have a mother-in-law who may not be rich 

but would do anything to help us. 

She has been here since Saturday and hasn't been
nosy, demanding or hardheaded.

I wrote a short article about how to get along 

with your mother-in-law on Triond quite some time ago. 

I thought some people might get some help from tips I wrote and about what to do.  How-to-Get-Along-with-Your-Mother-in-law-When-She-Comes-to-Your-House-for-Christmas.

I think that having the mother-in-law to come visit
can be a good thing.

 She didn't come in and try to take over my kitchen.

 She didn't come in a say how dirty the place is 

(not that I keep a dirty house, shhhhushh your mouth).

 She didn't come in and demand to be waited on hand and foot either. So for me, having the mother-in-law I have is better than most mother-in-laws I have met. 

So for this day after the Fourth of July Day, it will be bitter sweet because she could have been living here the whole time. 

So other than her returning home which is,

 by the way 100 miles away, 

things will be kind of back like it was before she arrived. 

Less people but at least some 

normality, quietness and peacefulness.

Mother-in-law tongue plant