mamadeb

When we started keeping kosher, my mother-in-law (she wasn't yet my mother-in-law) was really upset that we wouldn't eat at her seder (I never would because I'd always kept strict kosher l'pesach, but I guess it was the first time my husband had said no). What we did instead was let her host her own seder at Seth's house. I paid the difference in cost that her lamb was to be kosher (about double what she would have paid for non-kosher lamb...sigh). I made some side dishes. She came over the day of the seder and cooked.

And I nearly had a nervous breakdown because I kept watching her turn pareve things into fleishig things and so on.

If I had it all to do over again, I would have left the house that day.

But it was a good idea on paper. And would have worked out better if I weren't so uptight. :)