We Are Loved

DH and my dear K went to Malaysia to process K's ID and visited my mother-in-law the day before yesterday and returned with tons of stuff. Supplying us with plenty of food that is enough to feed the whole neighborhood for months has been the habit of my dear M-I-L. She lives in Malaysia therefore we don't see her often, that has not stopped her from passing things for us and despite our efforts to reason with her that we would not be able to consume all those things that she gives us, she keeps on pouring us with lots and lots of food nearly every few months. By food, it included all sort of fruits, vegetables, dry food and frozen food as well. Occasioanlly we get fish, chicken and pork too.

In the past, it has been our practice to curb what she gave us, but that only worked a little bit, we eventually gave up and let her do what she loves to do. We do not want to hurt feelings, in case our request is misunderstood. We are aware that she does it out of love and she only has good intentions towards us.



My mother in law is really a wonderful lady with a gigantic generous heart. She loves DH dearly, and she loves DH's family so much as well, although we hardly communicate with her due to language barrier. Motherly or grandmotherly loves obviously are unspoken but real. And yesterday, we were loaded with all sort of tropical fruits like including rambutans and mangosteen and .... well, many others. From her garden, she gave us cassava too.



So here are the mangosteens. They are not too attractive looking from the outside but the inside is so gorgeously white. The rind is thick and deep reddish purple, when ripe, the edible white part is delicate and tastes sweet. My K fell in love with them. They are luscious!