My SIL Kept Dumping Her Three Young Kids on My Retired Mom, Saying, ‘She Sits at Home and Does Nothing’ – So I Taught Her a Lesson She’d Never Forget

“Please turn off the stove before anything burns.”

“I already did.”

Mom lowered herself into a chair with a painful wince.

“How often does this happen?”

“Well,” she began, “Rachel often drops them off in the morning and asks me to watch them for an hour.”

I waited.

She rubbed her forehead.

“But then she is gone all day.”

I stared at her.

“How often is often?”

Mom glanced toward the children, as though hoping one of them might answer.

“A few times a week.”

“A few?”

She hesitated.

“Sometimes four.”