I was not born by you either

My daughter took her husband back to her parents' house for a short stay. We cooked dumplings for lunch that day. It happened that our son-in-law went out to do some errands and didn't get back in time.

"Leave some for him," I said.

"No, Mommy," the daughter said, "Just cook it next time."

"Next time is next time," I said.

The dumplings are cooked, and they are all white, fat and cute. I took out several small bowls and filled them with minced garlic, coriander, and chopped green onion. I also mixed a bowl of soy sauce, sesame oil vinegar, and mixed in the chopped fresh red peppers.

My son-in-law doesn't like coriander, so I specially mixed another bowl for him, took out some dumplings and fried them in a pan until they were fragrant and yellow on both sides (foreigners like to eat fried), put them on a plate and set them aside.

"This plate belongs to Art," I said.

"Mom, you are so kind to him." The daughter and her brother protested coquettishly at the same time.

"Don't worry," I said to my son, "When you have a wife in the future, I will be especially nice to her."

"I don't believe you would be nice to my wife-in-law," the son said, deliberately prolonging the "son" sound mischievously: "You used to be so strict with Xiaolei and Doudou!"

"That's right," I said, "Mom admits that she used to be very nervous about your interactions with little girls."

Is it okay for teenage boys and girls to be friends without adult restrictions? I then told my son that now that Xiaolei and Doudou are eighteen or nineteen years old, my attitude will naturally be different from what it was back then. If one of them really becomes your wife in the future - you see how much I will love her. !

Finally, I came to a conclusion:

"When someone who is not my child comes into my home and becomes my family, I will love him especially."

In fact, I developed this philosophy slowly through experience. I have been hurt in the past, and I have also hurt others.

I remember that when my husband, daughter, I came to the United States to be with my elder brother and sister-in-law, I only focused on my own pain and ignored my sister-in-law’s spiritual needs. Later, through God's grace over the years, I confessed my sins to my sister-in-law and reconciled, and we restored our sweet friendship.

My younger brother's wife is a positive example. When she married her younger brother three years ago, I already deeply felt the loneliness of being an "outsider." Every time I go back to my parents’ home for a reunion, even though I can be considered a married “outsider”, blood is thicker than water. I always love my younger sister-in-law very much, consciously or unconsciously. For this reason, not only do I have a very good relationship with her, but even my little brother is very grateful to me as a sister!

After telling these two little stories, I covered my son-in-law's plate of dumplings with plastic wrap and was about to sit down and enjoy my delicious lunch. Suddenly my other half spoke up:

"I was not born by you. Now that I have entered your house and become yours, can you also reward me with an extra plate of dumplings?"

I smiled, pinched a dumpling from my plate, put it in his mouth, and glanced at him:

"Hey! Sir, you are wrong again. Although you are not my child, you are closer than my biological child! Because you are me, I am you, and the two of us are one!"

As soon as they finished speaking, the daughter and son screamed together: "Oh yo..."

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