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abandonrealityFinally made it back last night from the in-laws last night. Whoosh. Instead of enjoying the freedom today, I have been stuck with a mysterious stomach virus that has keep me in bed most of the day. *blech* The week went pretty well over all. Only wanted to kill the brother-in-law 2 or 3 times and managed to control my homocidal tendancies, especially since I had forgotten that it was his daughter's first birthday that week. (bad aunty). My husband's sister got the stellar idea *coughsarcasmcough* to host a party for a one-year old outside....at one in the afternoon....in July......with over 30 relatives......did I mention this is taking place in the glorius, yet scorching southern US, where the humidity alone makes it hard to breathe.......
I was good, didn't say a thing (well not to her, just to my husband who agreed his sister is a few fries short of a happy meal) and Chloe managed to have a good time anyway. Of course she had about 10 to 15 people always doting and telling her how wonderful and pretty she was....and how smart and grown-up she was for a 6 year-old.........there will be no living with her after this. She eats it all up, not that her father and I don't think she is all of these things and love her, we do, we just know that living with her after hearing all of that will be impossible. She already has a healthy ego, no need to inflate it so her head can't fit though the door. Grandparents are good for that.
Only had one run-in with the father-in-law, ended in a truce on both sides. He was acting like a know-it-all. Can't even remember what about, it is an affliction of his. I had already been there 4 days and been uncommonly good according to Greg, when the mouth opened on its own. It was funny afterward as I caught my mother-in-law laughing in the master bedroom about it. She was the one he was going off on and apparently appreciated it.
Other than that same old routine of staying in the in-law household, they are repressed but good people. My husband was the black sheep but was redeemed though our daughter, the High Princess Chloe, I just wish they would quit hinting about another royal addition....*sigh*
An upnote, went shopping in Boaz, Alabama at a store called 'Unclaimed Baggage'. They have another in Scottsboro bigger they tell me. It is where they sell ALL of the stuff that people leave on airplanes, that airlines lose and what not. I am building a shrine to that store. It is the Mecca of Shopping. I bought a brand new Sony Walkman with batteries for ten dollars......brand new.......BRAND NEW, STILL IN THE BOX. I also broke down and bought some My Little Pony's for Chloe for 1 dollar a piece, brand new still in the box. They had some MP3 players I was dying to get but Greg didn't come and if I bought such without him I never would have heard the end of it. They had everything you could think of there. Some slightly used, some new. *sigh* I makes me all sparkly.
Well, gotta see a man about a wallaby.
I was good, didn't say a thing (well not to her, just to my husband who agreed his sister is a few fries short of a happy meal) and Chloe managed to have a good time anyway. Of course she had about 10 to 15 people always doting and telling her how wonderful and pretty she was....and how smart and grown-up she was for a 6 year-old.........there will be no living with her after this. She eats it all up, not that her father and I don't think she is all of these things and love her, we do, we just know that living with her after hearing all of that will be impossible. She already has a healthy ego, no need to inflate it so her head can't fit though the door. Grandparents are good for that.
Only had one run-in with the father-in-law, ended in a truce on both sides. He was acting like a know-it-all. Can't even remember what about, it is an affliction of his. I had already been there 4 days and been uncommonly good according to Greg, when the mouth opened on its own. It was funny afterward as I caught my mother-in-law laughing in the master bedroom about it. She was the one he was going off on and apparently appreciated it.
Other than that same old routine of staying in the in-law household, they are repressed but good people. My husband was the black sheep but was redeemed though our daughter, the High Princess Chloe, I just wish they would quit hinting about another royal addition....*sigh*
An upnote, went shopping in Boaz, Alabama at a store called 'Unclaimed Baggage'. They have another in Scottsboro bigger they tell me. It is where they sell ALL of the stuff that people leave on airplanes, that airlines lose and what not. I am building a shrine to that store. It is the Mecca of Shopping. I bought a brand new Sony Walkman with batteries for ten dollars......brand new.......BRAND NEW, STILL IN THE BOX. I also broke down and bought some My Little Pony's for Chloe for 1 dollar a piece, brand new still in the box. They had some MP3 players I was dying to get but Greg didn't come and if I bought such without him I never would have heard the end of it. They had everything you could think of there. Some slightly used, some new. *sigh* I makes me all sparkly.
Well, gotta see a man about a wallaby.
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