Ooh, that'd piss me off too, sarameg, but the truth is she's losing out more than they are. It's been my experience that, in the wake of not bequeathing my kids much in the way of living grandparents, they've had a wealth of relatives and friends happy to shoulder grandparenting duties.
Angel: How're you feeling? Faith: Like I did mushrooms and got eaten by a bear.
'A Hole in the World'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Burrell - Dec 25, 2012 4:32:43 pm PST #5618 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
sarameg - Dec 25, 2012 4:40:40 pm PST #5619 of 30001
It's true. She doesn't bad mouth her parents and brother to the kids, but Dominic is catching on.
msbelle - Dec 25, 2012 4:45:44 pm PST #5620 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Just got back from mom and dads. For those of you who have not heard, SNOW IN TEXAS. like on the ground, and staying. of course my car was outside so was covered in ice and snow and doors were semi-frozen shut.
Mac stayed over with the grandparents, unexpected, but nice. I just hope that Bailey will do ok sleeping in his room alone.
§ ita § - Dec 25, 2012 4:51:37 pm PST #5621 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have been kinda strenuously arguing tonight, but I actually applied a lesson learnt from the internet--just walk away (after summing up how absurd you think the whole thing is).
I have been having fun saying "But that's not the truth --you can't alter truth. That's just how it works." People here trust me a lot, but I was also right, so it works out.
sarameg, was she always this way, from the birth of the kids, or maybe the marriage? What set her off?
Very headachey right now *and* I just discovered a dent in my head. How do you just get a dent: [link] ? My mother mentioned a "bald spot" when first she saw me, but that's the first I'd heard of it. I could have been walking around for ages with that...
Jesse - Dec 25, 2012 4:57:00 pm PST #5622 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Weird, ita.
Ooh, that's exciting, msbelle! We had a dusting, but that's it.
She doesn't bad mouth her parents and brother to the kids, but Dominic is catching on.
That's the best way to do it, of course.
msbelle - Dec 25, 2012 4:57:43 pm PST #5623 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
that's odd ita, think you would have noticed that before.
DavidS - Dec 25, 2012 5:02:35 pm PST #5624 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
that's odd ita, think you would have noticed that before.
Especially since you go to the barber fairly often.
sarameg - Dec 25, 2012 5:07:44 pm PST #5625 of 30001
The real weirdness became apparent when Tyler was born, and ramped up to a poison pen letter out of the blue about 3 or 4 years ago ( from her mom, to be clear.) There is really no logic driving that train, except selfishness and Crazy.
Thunderstorms have finally moved out of the area.
SuziQ - Dec 25, 2012 5:15:23 pm PST #5626 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I feel like I'm being that bitter mom. I have really tried letting go of my feelings over the bf and go with the "I'm happy if she is happy" but it isn't working well. He left an hour ago and I don't think he will be back til Thurs. not that he talked to me about it, that is just my inferance. See...bitter.
Consuela - Dec 25, 2012 6:34:58 pm PST #5627 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So that was a nice Christmas. I got an immersion blender with a whole bunch of cool attachments, and an original cover of a Saturday Evening Post from 1953 with a Norman Rockwell on it, and some ugly earrings from my mother which I may try to return to Macys. And I got to meet my new bicycle!
We had turkey and skipped the mashed potatoes in favor of a roasted root vegetable medley, which was rather healthier and far more flavorful (yam, sweet potato, turnip, rutabaga, purple potato, white potato, parsnip, beet, celery root). So tasty. And the pies went over well.
Stay safe, Buffistas! The weather here is crazy wet, but at least it's not freezing.
And now it's time for Yuletide, and the Doctor Who Christmas Special, woot.