I was just remembering that the first time I met Adam's mom, she loaned me Mark Haddon's first book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

This led me to think about marriage and of joining another family. Every time Adam's on the phone with his family and I say "Send them my love", or when my mother gleefully addresses Adam as "SIL", or when Jonathan calls him Manischewitz (like he didn't do that before the wedding?), I truly feel the blending of two families.

Last week we were on the phone with my mom and I got snippy at him. My mother said: "I don't choose between my children, and Adam, you are one of my children." I liked that.