Thanksgiving etc
Thanksgiving was interesting. My brother and stepsister didn't come down, so it was just me. My grandma's house was normal. I love my family, but I always forget how loud they are. I had two glasses of wine, which is very unusual for me. We played games for a while and I won 11 dollars playing for nickels, which was kinda awesome. The next day, at my mother's house, we watched movies and ordered a pizza. I took my sister out for frozen yogert at this place near their house, just the two of us.
I can't believe that she is going to be 12 next month. That is just crazy to me. I remember when she was born. I was in fact, 12 and a half when she was born. I was in the middle of taking my midterms in 7th grade, and she was born that Sunday. My dad took my brother and I to the hospital and I got to hold her and she was so little. I also got to give her the first solid food that she ate. It is definitely strange to interact with her now, as she is getting much more adult and I see her so infrequently. It was nice to get to spend time with just her, one on one.
Saturday, as always, I went to my dad's thanksgiving. I usually like it the best as well. It tends to be smaller than my grandmother's, 5 or 6 as opposed to 15 or 16, and I like the food the best. There is a much higher percentage of things that I will eat. This year, my brother and stepsister didn't come, but my stepmother's mother did. It was amazing.
It was the first time I had met her and it explains so much. Really. It was amazing. Picture Pat when she is 80 and you've got it. She is blunt in the same way and has the same uptightness going on. For example, we went over to Pat's house to take the goody bag out of the turkey for her, since she won't and was making a turkey for Key Club. Pat hugged me and said something to the effect of how good it was to see me. Then she hugged my dad, and said, "well, it's not as big a deal because you live here," and her mother pipes up, "o no he doesn't" in a tone of voice that implies, "he better not, missy." Pat is 61 and has been with my father for 18 years, and they in fact live separately. It was amazing. It almost made my stepmother's lecture about how I shouldn't live with boys until I'm positive Im really going to marry them, and see wasn't she right that I shouldn't have lived with Walter blah blah blah, a little better.
I can't believe that she is going to be 12 next month. That is just crazy to me. I remember when she was born. I was in fact, 12 and a half when she was born. I was in the middle of taking my midterms in 7th grade, and she was born that Sunday. My dad took my brother and I to the hospital and I got to hold her and she was so little. I also got to give her the first solid food that she ate. It is definitely strange to interact with her now, as she is getting much more adult and I see her so infrequently. It was nice to get to spend time with just her, one on one.
Saturday, as always, I went to my dad's thanksgiving. I usually like it the best as well. It tends to be smaller than my grandmother's, 5 or 6 as opposed to 15 or 16, and I like the food the best. There is a much higher percentage of things that I will eat. This year, my brother and stepsister didn't come, but my stepmother's mother did. It was amazing.
It was the first time I had met her and it explains so much. Really. It was amazing. Picture Pat when she is 80 and you've got it. She is blunt in the same way and has the same uptightness going on. For example, we went over to Pat's house to take the goody bag out of the turkey for her, since she won't and was making a turkey for Key Club. Pat hugged me and said something to the effect of how good it was to see me. Then she hugged my dad, and said, "well, it's not as big a deal because you live here," and her mother pipes up, "o no he doesn't" in a tone of voice that implies, "he better not, missy." Pat is 61 and has been with my father for 18 years, and they in fact live separately. It was amazing. It almost made my stepmother's lecture about how I shouldn't live with boys until I'm positive Im really going to marry them, and see wasn't she right that I shouldn't have lived with Walter blah blah blah, a little better.