May 5, 2011
I’m going to my Mom’s for Mother’s Day after work. I need to leave today, even though it’s a 7 hour drive, so there will be a business day after I arrive for me to get some issues worked out for her. I worry from far away and don’t have the information I need to do anything but pass concerns on to my brother who lives closer to her, which isn’t fair to him. So I go, hoping the visit will hold some resolutions, laughter, fond memories, and that I will provoke as little anger as possible in trying to help. She has no internet, so I’ll only be online briefly from the nearby Starbucks, mostly for work. I’ll read and post comments and catch up on my own and other blogs on Monday.
So hope that you get things resolved…and with as little family discord as possible.
slpmartin
May 7, 2011 at 5:57 pm
Things went quite well. But I am such an optimist that I am always stunned by the acrimony.
mairmusic
May 10, 2011 at 2:52 pm
that photograph is just divine marilynn!
happy mother’s day!
trisha
May 8, 2011 at 3:02 am
And to you! I am at my mom’s this year.
mairmusic
May 10, 2011 at 2:51 pm
waiting for your return.
trisha
May 11, 2011 at 4:10 am
I’m here, my friend. But I find it usually takes a little longer for my mind to return to the day-to-day.
mairmusic
May 12, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Hope you had a great time at your mom’s and that things remained peaceful for you both. I know how tough it is to try to give advice to our mothers when they just plainly don’t want to listen! Sometimes hearing what is best for them, or us, is just too difficult to hear xx
Blossom Dreams
May 11, 2011 at 1:39 pm
Yep, we usually are much better about giving advice than getting it.
mairmusic
May 12, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Ditto your last comment here! :-) Sympathize.
Jamie Dedes
May 13, 2011 at 9:49 am
Hard, but necessary. Now, looking back, I think the whole visit is better for both of us as a memory than it was at the time. Odd.
mairmusic
May 13, 2011 at 10:56 am