Drama!!
So if you ever wonder if your family is the only one with "issues" HA!
Becky and I are at moms house cleaning out her storage area, making piles of stuff to have a garage sale. Becky has been working especially hard because she has been staying at my moms and I can leave and go home... which is great! Well, not only has the cleaning and moving furniture and organizing everything been fun but trying to keep 8 children under control, (2 of which are babies) and still get anything accomplished is quite a feat.
My sister is exhausted, as am I. We are both sick and tired of moving furniture up and down stairs, and my mom has never been too good at the babysitting thing so we are constantly stopping to take care of hurt feelings, or fussy babies.
After almost 2 weeks of making piles, sorting and organizing stuff, my mom decides last night that it would be too much work to do a garage sale and to just forget it.
Mind you, we have already put out all the signs, cleaned out the garage and done all that she insisted we do and then .... well, it wasn't a pretty sight last night. While eating Chinese food we were crying and exploding and venting and pretty much at each others throats until my wonderful husband said, "your tired, lets go home" He packed up the kids in the car and we drove away while my poor sis was stuck there to deal with the rest. We have a funny family. I am not one to keep my mouth shut and I say how I feel and there it is...all out in the open...so lets work it out and move on. My sis on the other hand does not like to fight with my mom and lets my mom treat her not so good sometimes. I'm the tough big sister that doesn't let my mom bully me or anyone else around but like I said, I got to go home. I haven't slept good hoping my sister hasn't packed up and gone home in the middle of the night, although I wouldn't blame her at all!! (oh and Dan isn't here to smooth things over for her either so she is lonely without her husband)
So it is 5:30 am on a Saturday morning and I am on my way to my moms house to do a garage sale anyway because dang it, we have worked too hard not to.
I love my mom. She has her quirks but don't we all? If I knew how to be a parent, I would share my vast knowledge with the world but hopefully I can learn a few lessons from the good and bad experiences and be just a little better everyday. And hopefully my girls wont turn out as grumpy as their mom but will always know that their best is good enough for me and I love them no matter what.
I know you were all dying to read this, and don't get me wrong because I adore my mom. We are just very different people who have learned how to deal with each other and somehow still survive.
Oh, and just so everyone knows, my mom asked me to get my real estate license so I can be her assistant since she has so much work to do. So I pass my test last week and she decides to accept a job with another company as the vice president of relocation. So needless to say, I have a license and apparently wont be using it. Maybe it will come in handy some day but AAARRGGG! Thankfully I don't have to work because I absolutely don't want to and won't but that was a lot of work, time, stress for nothing.
I guess I can say "I did it!" with 4 kids at home and maybe it will be a blessing someday!
Whew! So off I go to my moms. Wish me luck!! :)