My mother in law too. Just like my mother, MIL also took table cloth business seriously, picnic, beaches, hytte and at home… and I honor the tradition. No way I will eat at a picnic table anywhere without a proper table cloth. Both mum and MIL would never place a pot on a table and even with a serving dish both would use matching plate holders to protect the table cloth and the table underneath. My mother is still with us, she is 82 and a lot more relaxed about things, but we lost my MIL in 2017, she was 92. I miss her everyday, she was amazing and we were incredibly similar… she was 14 when Norway was invaded by Germany and her family struggled immensely. Her father was a communist leader and had to ran away to avoid being arrested by the Nazi, mother left alone with 6 children and MIL and her twin sister had to go away at 14 and find work in Sweden. Her stories were amazing, even if some very dramatic and sad.It's not just the pot on the table it doesn't seems they put something underneath the hot pots on a wooden tableAlso, your mother is like my mother in law, always a table cloth even at the hytte or picnic ! (hytte= cabin/summer house)
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