Friday, March 30, 2012

The Mama's Mama

A week ago I was having a rough morning. It was the culmination of a stressful couple weeks dealing with some of my husband's work stuff, combined with the stress of keeping our fingers crossed that the rental sale would go through and it would close and we could move on with our lives in that sense, and then a neighbor's huge pile of burning garbage was the straw that broke the camel's back. I had already vented at length to my husband about the situation, and besides, he's in the middle of most of the stress too, even more so than I am for parts of it! So when I was feeling near tears just thinking about the idiots burning garbage, and the fire department not fining them for it, and, and... I called my mom.


She might not always know what to say to get me back to feeling level headed again, but she always tries, and usually succeeds. We chatted and she let me complain and complain about how unfair things were, and how things weren't right, and how it was wrong, and so on. By listening and giving good feedback, she let me see what I was really mad about (my husband's work situation) and what was just irritating but ignorable (idiot neighbors burning garbage). She let me move on with my normal day-to-day things, and feel that I still had a handle on getting to a solution that worked for the stresses in my life.


I feel very lucky that I have such a great mom who will drop whatever she's doing to talk to me about whatever random thing I want to talk to her about. So Thanks Mom, I love you :)


[PS, Dad, if you're reading this, thanks for letting me use these pictures of yours without asking you about it first, love you too! ;) ]

8 comments:

  1. She's a great mom - don't I recall you telephoning her from a cliff where you had stalled your truck? Or something like that?
    I, too, field a few calls from frustrated daughter.
    Your mom is a great friend and neighbour too - and has never complained about the burn piles.

    Yet.

    :-D

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    1. Ah yes, so you heard about the cliff incident... That one wasn't too fun for anyone, apart from the snake I was trying to track who was likely eating young swallows on the cliff face. :) If I recall, Mom thought I should call for a heli rescue. Luckily I managed to get down without falling off into the adjacent tree tops... whoops :)

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  2. The pictures of 3 generations of women in your family are too adorable. I'm smiling from ear to ear and missing my mama all at the same time. She's been sending me letters while I am away, which I love so much...and she's helping Peter and the girls clean the house tomorrow (new house when I go home next Friday!)! Love the mamas.

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    1. That's great that your mom can be there to help them out! Otherwise... :) Mom's are pretty great!

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  3. You are so blessed to be able to share these things with your mom and glean her wisdom. That time for me has passed, as my mom has severe dementia now. Enjoy every moment, Katy!

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    1. I didn't know about your mom daisy, I'm sorry :( I hope I get to enjoy this relationship with her for years to come :)

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