My Mother-in-Law Left a Blue Notebook in Our Hallway Closet—After My Son Was Born, I Finally Learned What She Had Been Recording Inside It

Some copies from family albums.

Some recent surveillance.

The distinction mattered.

But enough recent photographs showed she had been watching our house from outside.

Possibly entering.

That was no longer:

overbearing mother-in-law.

It was behavior law enforcement took seriously.

PART 25 — THE NOTEBOOK

Police eventually catalogued the notebook.