The quarrel is with my DIL. My children would not dare to
tell me what to do because they know well and truly that I
do exactly what I want to do. Her unwanted advice is making
me be quite short with her. I think she is forgetting who
helped her get here from Russia, who taught her to drive and
who picks up her children from school. Ted and I are both
sick of it. We love the girls so we don't say much but we
are tired of her disputing all of our choices and her implying that we are so senile we don't know what we are
doing.

She is a good mother and a good wife for my son because she
has been able to curb his extravagant ways and make him
neater around the house. However, she would argue with a
stone. Well, enough of that!!

Speaking of being Americanized, yesterday I was standing in
the check out line at the grocery store when a Chinese
woman ran up to me and started shrieking in Chinese. I knew
she wanted to go in front of me but being contrary, I stood
my ground. She pushed two people out of the way and got in
front of them. Such rude behavior! Where have people's
good manners gone?