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@mamimami: Latino moms are no joke. My sister calls her MIL "La Señora" even when referring to her!
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@Leialou: yes. Me too
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I call her by her first name, or Nana if any of the grandkids are around. I sometimes call my FIL Pops, though, which is what the kids call him (and D calls him Pop).
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I've managed to avoid calling her anything in the ~6 years I've known her, lol. If I couldn't avoid calling her something I'd use her first name. But she does sign card and stuff as "Mum" which is what DH and his siblings call her. I think my parents sign stuff mom and dad but DH calls them by their first names. He's considered calling them mom and dad too. He's a lot closer to my parents than I am his, plus his are mum and pop.
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Psycho.
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I don't really call her anything but when I have to, I call her uh-muh-nim which is the formal korean word for mother.
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I call her mom. My own mom always called her MIL mom, and mine invited me to do the same. We're family!
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First name. My DH calls my mom "Mom".
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@shinymama: this made me lol. I call mine suegrita...I love her to bits I feel like she is my Latino mum.
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I call mine by my husband's childhood nickname for her, ditto for my FIL.
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I used to call her umma, which is mom in Korean. Now I call her halmoni, which is grandma in Korean, since LO is usually around. She signs my cards, and when she calls, she identifies herself to me as mommy, which cracks me up. I think the fact that I am Chinese and the Korean words don't have much significance to me makes it easier. I couldn't actually call her mom in English or Chinese, though DH calls my mom "mom".
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When DH and I started dating she was 'Nana' to my stepdaughter and my now SIL so I've been calling her that since then. DH has really made a lot of effort to be close to my mom and he calls her "Mom". Both my mother and I are so touched by it. DH would like it if I called my MIL "Mom" so I try but after calling her 'Nana' for all these years it's hard to remember! She and I are both pretty shy so it can be awkward at times!! She's a sweet woman though, no MIL complaints here.
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First name, and sometimes Grandma First name (although only when talking with my husband).
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Dr. Mom.
She is definately a second mother to me, but in my culture we would never call our mother in law Mum/Mom. When she asked me to call her Mom, she had just finished her PhD, so I started calling her Dr. Mom and it stuck, plus it means it is technically different to Mum/Mom!
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Umma which is mom in Korean if I have to say anything.
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@anonysquire: you're nicer than i am
i have a second name after psycho that i add
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@mrs. bird: well my in laws stalk me on here lol.
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I try not to call her anything in person, but it would be her first name if anything. Nothing against her, but she's not my mom so I don't feel comfortable calling her that.
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I've known her for over a decade and have avoided calling her anything lol.
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@Boogs: same. Lol
She prefers I call her mom and usually do in third person reference. Now it's just grandma or nothing at all
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I call her "auntie". It's the south Asian way. And I call my FIL "uncle". It was weird at first but I'm used to it now, and the bonus is that all do DHs family that is older is called "auntie and uncle" so if I can't remember eir names it doesn't matter.
My husband calls my mom "nana" since that is what the grand kids call her (and what our LO will call her). She's fine with DH using her first name, but in his culture that's rude, and he can't bring himself to do it, lol.
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@mrsjyw: Same here with occasionally using grandma lol.
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@anonysquire: This!
I avoid calling his step mom and mom anything. I refer to his step mom by her first name and his mom as your mom when I'm talking to him.
It always weirded me out when kids/teens would call their friends parents mom and dad. So weird.
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Her first name. She asked me what I wanted to call her and I said first name was fine.
i have a second name after psycho that i add
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