• My family moved to a new city for my job, where we had no extended family. • When my mother-in-law came to visit, my husband and I had time for each other and the house. • She decided to move in with us, and we are all so much happier together.

Yesterday, I ate three healthy meals, came to work fully prepared, went to the gym, read a chapter aloud to my daughters before bed, and fell asleep before 10 p.m., knowing the pets were fed, the plants were watered, the laundry was put away, and the dishwasher was loaded.

Am I the most amazing mom on planet Earth? Far from it. But I may be the luckiest — because my mother-in-law lives with me.

My family moved for a job

Seven years ago, my husband, our two then-toddlers, and I packed up and moved over 1,000 miles away for a job I couldn't

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