In-laws

I figure I am probably not the world's greatest mother-in-law but I would like you to know of some of my relatives' in-laws. When my sister Ethel had her first child in California my mother went out to be with her and my sister's in-laws went also as their son was an only child. After the birth of her oldest child, Leon, my dad and sister Helen went out to admire this wonder. When we got there we never saw her in-laws as they climbed out a bedroom window and went back to Dover, Kansas. Now my brother had a great mother-in-law and I always enjoyed her. I married an only child as his sister had died before he was born. It use to be the style that you had the first shoes the child wore that were not bootees bronzed. I have six pairs of bronze shoes and only five children as my mother in law had our son Steve second pair bronzed also. I have tried to give them to my children but they do not seem to want them so they sit on a high shelf gathering dust where I still admire them each day. Maybe the copper is worth a lot now so they can have them melted down and get rich. However it was my sister Ethel's in-laws who got me my first teaching job teaching at Pleasant Valley, a country school between Topeka and Dover, Kansas where I had 14 students who survived a year with me.