Jeanie Spokane: When I got married (in another lifetime on another planet), my mother (a Special Ed teacher) brought the classroom frogs home for Christmas break - I got married on December 19, the evening of my last final at Eastern - and just before the guests arrived to our humble farm house - the frogs ESCAPED. We never saw them again. But the whole evening my mother would look around, eyes would go wide, hand clasped over her mouth, as she thought she spotted one or two hopping about in the dining room. In the end, she got sloshed, just knowing that my high-falutin’ mother-in-law would spot the little critters. (She also brought home the chalk-board pet rat, Gaylord - but he was safely hidden)

Question: Do you get along with your mother-in-law?