So, we got through our last dinner without another hurtful incident. However, his mother likes to make up her own names, including what she calls ME. A nickname I have is "Mo", so she calls me "Mono". My husband has told her that this is a disease and has corrected her more than once, but she insists on calling me by this nickname. It's a bit insulting, and I don't get why she continues when she knows it's wrong. One of our cat's names is Buttercup, but his mom calls her Cupcake instead.

I am glad she's gone.

Apparently, after she returned to California she peed in her bed. She called my husband yesterday distraught and crying telling him that her daughter-in-law is fed up with her. She cried, saying she doesn't belong there. She really belongs in Assisted Living, but she cannot afford it. I am SO glad that she cannot live with us. It's impossible.