My Husband Fired Our Nanny and Expected My Injured Mother to Care for Our Four Children — So I Made Sure He Learned a Lesson

to calm everyone down.

I stopped her.

“Mom, you are not babysitting. You’re not doing anything except recovering. I’ll handle this.”

Carl rolled his eyes.

“You’re overreacting.”

Instead of arguing further, I went silent.

The next day, I finally reached Nina during lunch.

“Why didn’t you call me?” I asked.

“I almost did,” she admitted. “But Carl told me he’d continue reading …