Reasons I love my Mother-in-Law - Part Four

My MIL has an (let's call it) interesting way of identifying people.

For example, if she were describing me to one of her friends she would likely say 'the Irish girl my son married'. I was not actually born in Ireland and my mother's family is Scottish but you get the point.

Our cleaning lady is 'the Russian women that cleans for us', her neighbour is 'that lovely Polish woman' and so on and so on (I am leaving out the more offensive ones but you can imagine where this might go).

She seems to qualify everyone she meets/interacts with by their race. And not really in a good way. I don't like to use the 'R' word but she is pretty close to the wrong side of the line.

And if you were wondering is this also one of the reasons she is not allowed to be alone in a room with the kid.