Mother in law
Dear Mother in law: When I tell you that my sick child woke my husband up six times last night with her wretched coughing, the correct response is not to insult my husband and to impugn his commitment to my family.
Sometimes my head just can't come to terms with the awfulness of what she says, and so, lacking any non-four letter things to say, I just walk away.
For the record: my husband is an awesome and devoted father, a fabulous breadwinner, and a good cook too.
And I wasted a strawberry shortcake on them too!
Elsewhere in the news: family is doing well. David is five months old and a very happy baby. Viv has a lovely new toddler book club that I'm co-running. We do books and songs and crafts and we are a damned talented group of over-educated moms.
Viv grows more clever: Yesterday, given two options: "help Mom clean or sit in a chair by yourself" she said "I don't like either of those options.". We settled on her entertaining the baby who was starting to fuss. So I cleaned and she waved toys at the baby. A win-win solution.
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