The phone call

Last night at 8 pm, Joe got a call from his mother asking if he knew where his dad was.  She needed a ride home from their store which is about a 30 minute drive from our house to her house which is about a 45 minute drive from her store.  All in all it is about an hours and a half drive round trip.  His father left the store around 2 pm to go to computer class ( a whole other blog posting) and didn't call or come back to get his mother from the store.  Still nothing from him at 9 pm, so Joe got into his car and picked his mother up (who has pancreatic cancer, undergoing chemo, and looking very sick these days) because his father left her stranded for SEVEN hours and counting!  As Joe was rounding the corner to their house, his father called to say that he was just leaving their house then (10:00 pm) to pick his mother up.  Wow, pretty ridiculous.

So, what was he doing for all that time????  Computer class, which I think he has a lifetime membership for, and the instructor made a house call to help him in more computer stuff.  He had his phone on silent and didn't hear the numerous calls and DIDn't think to call his wife...I  mean it was only SEVEN hours away from her, why would you call your sick wife?  That's just silly people talk.

Ahhh...peace...

It has been THREE weeks of not seeing the i-laws and it has been oh so PEACEFUL and harmonious in my life.

Just found this site...might be helpful

http://www.wikihow.com/Deal-With-a-Difficult-Mother-in-Law

Me and Mini Me

The moment my 1 year old son was born, everyone knew he was an exact clone of my husband.  It is unreal as to how much they look alike.  That is everyone thinks they look identical  EXCEPT of course, my mother in law.  She says they look the same EXCEPT Danny's eyes are sooooo small and squinty they look like MINE!  And she says it almost every single time we see her.  Kind of reminds me of when I was going on my bachelorette party and she was jealous becasue I was going on vacation and asked me if that was some sort of Jewish tradition??  She tries to say it very nicely, but you know what she really means.

My daughter's 3rd Birthday...how fast kids grow...unfortunately, in-laws don't...

My daughter's 3rd birthday was today!  YAY!  Her party was yesterday and my in-laws were unable to make it.  They called my husband earlier in the week to say they couldn't make it, so they wanted to take her out for lunch today (Sunday).  Wow, that is very nice....So we suggest the local diner (so not to bust the budget)...we meet there, my father in law describes the place as unsettling (it's a typical diner!!!!) anyway, the moment the check comes, it gets passed from the waitress to my father in law then to my mother in law and then finally ends up in my husband's hand!!!!  I guess I blame myself for actually believing that they would pay for lunch.  How silly of me!