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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 356977" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>Reasons why I'm not looking forward to Mother's Day? Let's see...</p><p>1) My beautiful Grannie, the woman who raised me as her own when my difficult child-mom wasn't up to it, has been dead since 1981. Mother's Day is a painful reminder of her loss which I still feel deeply every day.</p><p>2) I've been estranged from my difficult child-mom for years, so between her and my now-gone Grannie, I don't have anyone to honour, except...</p><p>3) My wonderful mother in law, who is still so very sick, and now sick and tired of living. She's 86, has terminal cancer and a boatload of depression to go with it. </p><p>4) The family birthdays. sister in law, sister in law's hub, Step-D, Step-D's boyfriend. All in May, all right around Mother's Day. So we generally have a big Birthday/Mother's Day celebration.</p><p>5) husband doesn't believe that he should acknowledge me on Mother's Day, since I'm not his mother. My otherwise wonderful and very supportive husband doesn't seem to recognize that as the mother of HIS CHILDREN, I would like to be acknowledged.</p><p>6) sister in law, brother in law and Step-D don't have any children, and they truly don't understand the travails of parenthood. Even without difficult children in the picture it's hard. They don't have a ****** (insert your preferred expletive here) clue. They often forget that I'm also a mother. I don't want to take away from anyone's celebration of mother in law, but I sometimes feel like saying "Hey! I'm over here! I'm a mom too!"</p><p>7) Little easy child is with the others this year on Mother's Day. He always remembers and he always does something nice, but he won't be here. difficult child never remembers unless he gets a lot of prompting, and I just can't be bothered to prompt. The Tot Monsters are too little to understand anything beyond FOOD-PLAY-SLEEP-REPEAT, so there's not a single person in the whole bunch who will notice.</p><p>8) We're hosting the Mother's Day/Birthday bash this year, so on top of everything else, I get to cook and clean, organize cards and presents for everyone, bake or buy a birthday cake and a Mother's Day cake and celebrate everyone else's happiness, while wanting to cry inside over yet again getting lost in the shuffle.</p><p>9) My street is having a Group Yard Sale that weekend. Just because there wasn't already enough chaos without having to add to it. And yes, husband wants to participate, so in addition to hosting the party, I will also have to make sure that the yard sale stuff is being wrangled because husband will wander off to socialilze, because "Trinity can handle it". Story of my life.</p><p></p><p>Shari, Gcv, I might just invite myself along on that pony ride too. I'm little, and can fit in a saddle bag.</p><p></p><p>Sigh...</p><p></p><p>Trinity</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 356977, member: 3907"] Reasons why I'm not looking forward to Mother's Day? Let's see... 1) My beautiful Grannie, the woman who raised me as her own when my difficult child-mom wasn't up to it, has been dead since 1981. Mother's Day is a painful reminder of her loss which I still feel deeply every day. 2) I've been estranged from my difficult child-mom for years, so between her and my now-gone Grannie, I don't have anyone to honour, except... 3) My wonderful mother in law, who is still so very sick, and now sick and tired of living. She's 86, has terminal cancer and a boatload of depression to go with it. 4) The family birthdays. sister in law, sister in law's hub, Step-D, Step-D's boyfriend. All in May, all right around Mother's Day. So we generally have a big Birthday/Mother's Day celebration. 5) husband doesn't believe that he should acknowledge me on Mother's Day, since I'm not his mother. My otherwise wonderful and very supportive husband doesn't seem to recognize that as the mother of HIS CHILDREN, I would like to be acknowledged. 6) sister in law, brother in law and Step-D don't have any children, and they truly don't understand the travails of parenthood. Even without difficult children in the picture it's hard. They don't have a ****** (insert your preferred expletive here) clue. They often forget that I'm also a mother. I don't want to take away from anyone's celebration of mother in law, but I sometimes feel like saying "Hey! I'm over here! I'm a mom too!" 7) Little easy child is with the others this year on Mother's Day. He always remembers and he always does something nice, but he won't be here. difficult child never remembers unless he gets a lot of prompting, and I just can't be bothered to prompt. The Tot Monsters are too little to understand anything beyond FOOD-PLAY-SLEEP-REPEAT, so there's not a single person in the whole bunch who will notice. 8) We're hosting the Mother's Day/Birthday bash this year, so on top of everything else, I get to cook and clean, organize cards and presents for everyone, bake or buy a birthday cake and a Mother's Day cake and celebrate everyone else's happiness, while wanting to cry inside over yet again getting lost in the shuffle. 9) My street is having a Group Yard Sale that weekend. Just because there wasn't already enough chaos without having to add to it. And yes, husband wants to participate, so in addition to hosting the party, I will also have to make sure that the yard sale stuff is being wrangled because husband will wander off to socialilze, because "Trinity can handle it". Story of my life. Shari, Gcv, I might just invite myself along on that pony ride too. I'm little, and can fit in a saddle bag. Sigh... Trinity [/QUOTE]
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