Like many people, my family has been and is a great gift to me. However, instead of posting here a picture of my immediate family, I have chosen one of my mother-in-law, Varvara (or Barbara) - 86 and still going strong - baby-sitter, cook, house-keeper, writer and much more. Mothers-in-law may be material for jokes for some, but for us our quality nof life would have been so much poorer.