OT Incoming

/me reaches out with a big bottle of valium.........

Danuta (my parents are now in heaven, telling the angels what they are doing wrong..)

As a 1960s former hippy wannabe- I'm jealous! Wish I could find that kinda stuff in my small town before it goes out of fashion..... AGAIN! LOL

Good luck with the folks.... I feel your pain. My parents are hinting at making a trek to MO. (groan!)

Leslie & The Furbabies > I have parents incoming within the next couple days.

Sometimes NOT having parents or parents-in-law can be a good thing! I get antsy when the kids come to visit! Marilyn in beautiful, sunny Alberta

Prayers that it will be a good visit, and not as stressful as you imagine.

-- TerriLee in WA (state) remove the cats to reply

Is it okay if I send sympathy and laugh at the same time? How well I remember those visits and cutting little comments. My worst moments were hunting down all the ugly; yes, ugly, UGLY ! afghans that were crocheted and given to me. Perhaps that's why I usually cringe when someone is "suprising" another with a wallhanging. I'll just be glad I never received any hippy dippy clothing. What a hoot. Polly

... and then once your mama is passed you miss that stuff and feel such a loss. What a mixed bag of emotional stuff we have over parents, then we do it to our kids!

Taria

polly esther wrote:

=46ingers crossed for you that all goes well.

Irene

-------------- You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.=20

--Mae West=20

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Sending calm, strong thoughts your way, Nightmist!

Me too, and my kids live here in town! LOL! But at least DMIL is a pretty good houseguest when she comes each year, so I don't have much to complain about. :)

Thanks Pat. The same back to you. It is going to be 6 years next week and boy I sure miss that wacky woman. Taria

Pat > Yep. Hugs to Taria and all of us who do not have our Moms any more. PAT >

And a big hug to you, Pat. I sure do miss my mom, more than I ever dreamed. But, of course, we always think we'll have more time, at least I did.

Judie > Yep. Hugs to Taria and all of us who do not have our Moms any more. PAT >

Amen, Taria, I miss mine more and more every day. They say it gets easier, 17 months and not easier yet. Esp. since I started this sewing stuff, that was my mother's favorite thing to do. Oh how I wish she was here to tell me how to do things. Oh and in June when I pneumonia I thought I would die I wanted her so badly. I mean I am 51 years old/young and I still wanted my mother when I was sick.

Jacquel>... and then once your mama is passed you miss that stuff and feel such

Jacqueline

and other fun things

I take it you must be my sister is we have the same parents who are pains. Loved it when I lived in another state, but alas that was only to be for 14 months. 4 years ago they moved 10 miles from me! My siblings are 300 miles away which leaves the folks just to me.

Debbi in SO CA

NightMist wrote:

Hope their visit is a short one?? Count to 10 and take a deep breath on the comments...... and don't wear yourself out!

Hugz Patti in Seattle

AH, Jacqueline.....I'm 53; my mom died over three years ago. My dad over

12 years ago. It only gets 'easier' in that you 'find' a way to get through life without them. If you have a family of your own it helps a great deal. Still, it's like a scar - it never truly goes away. I feel like an orphan, even at my age. =20

Irene

-------------- You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.=20

--Mae West=20

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Some of it isn't too gawdawful. The peasanty stuff is sometimes even kind of nice. The shining expanses of eye bleeding polyester though....*shudder* I think somewhere around here I have a hip length blouse she sent last year that is shiny poly, gathered elastic neck and cuffs, 3/4 balloon raglan sleeves, elastic waist (that I can only keep my bosom over top of by constant effort) with I swear -yards- of fabric below it, and in a truly horrifying green, orange, and blue violet, paisly print. It has huge wooden beads hanging from little ties at the neck and cuffs too. And she always sends stuff that either fits like a tent and/or is cut so I have a real struggle with my *ahem* upper chest. (mum has been a AA her whole life, ditto my sister) One of the reasons I am always tempted to shake a little flour over the sewing machines to make them look dusty, is if she thinks I am sewing clothes it is call for an emergency shopping trip.

Since my gramma raved over the quilts I showed her, mom has mellowed a bit about my quilting. Thank heavens!

NightMist

It will be. They visit all the other reletives while they are here. Since my dad is the second youngest of 10 that makes quite a few reletives! I only have to make it through one home visit and one dinner out usually. Unless my mom has taken a notion since my brother's accident that her children are mortal and decides to spend more time with me.

It wouldn't be so bad if they showed an iota of at least respect for my family. Over the last 10 years they have at least started talking to DH, kiri and Ash are usually treated like obnoxious boarders though. They openly play favorites with the girls. *clip, cut, stop now*

I will practice counting to ten. frontwards, backwards, in english, german, french, spanish, kreyol, japanese, hebrew, latin, and greek.

NightMist multilingual in counting, prayers, and insults