Family

By Trula • February 11th, 2009

I saw this question on a mama board I frequent:
Parents with two or more kids…what do you think about your family members wanting to take only one of your children at a time in order to spend time with them? do you allow relatives to regularly (I’m not talking every once in a while, I’m [...]

I am not a step-mama but I am daughter to a wonderful mom who is a ’step’ mother to some of my siblings. They lived with their mom for the first 5 years of my parents’ marriage then permanently lived with us. My mom went through many struggles but I think what helped her the [...]

We went for a boat ride and hung out with Mercury Man’s parents on July 4th. We had a great time! It turned out to be an incredibly beautiful day. The day began kinda cloudy and gloomy, and looked like it might rain. But it didn’t!
This was a random beach ball that was floating way [...]

I have been with Mercury Man 11 years, married for 8, and I have been through the war with his mother and back. We have both undergone a lot growth and maturity so that has helped a great deal. Here are some things that helped me and might help you is you are having issues [...]

We spent last Sunday, the first Sunday of Spring hanging out in the back yard, roasting veggie dogs (Mercury Man had meat-dogs!!) till it got dark:

Here I am, chilling. It was a beautiful day, really crisp still but the sun was warm and bright. I still needed a jacket!
i-bop ran in and out of the [...]

Just musing on this today as I contemplate my invite list for our annual Spring Party. I won’t invite my family…because my nerves just can’t take them right now. There, I said it, any family members reading this you can go and report back to headquarters. I can’t take it, not at my Happy Spring [...]

I am all about my kids. I have been a mother since before I was an adult. I got pregnant with my daughter when I was 16 right before my senior year of high school started (I skipped a grade in elementary), and I was 17 when she was born a month before I graduated [...]

One of my sisters has gone back to a destructive relationship. I don’t know what to do. I know there is nothing I can do, but I still feel like there is something, anything, some word or phrase I can say that will show her she is worth so much more than this.
She is [...]

I often find myself getting into it with various family members who seem bound and determined to get me upset and drawn into whatever family drama is going on. They refuse to believe that I have changed, but since I let them get to me and I revert to past ways of interacting, I can [...]

You may recall, my dad has prostrate cancer. He was diagnosed earlier this year and it is advanced and being aggressively treated. My mother and sister found him unconscious earlier this morning. He was rushed to the hospital and so far they haven’t been able to tell my mother much. I am very distraught. I [...]

I am not going to the AMC after all, I’m going to run down to Cincinnati to see my dad. As regular readers know he has prostrate cancer which was being treated pretty aggressively with chemo and radiation. My mom just called me to say they want to do surgery now, tonight. The cancer was [...]

We had an ok Easter! We are not a christian family nor pagan but Brian and I appreciate the fertility/spring/renewal aspects of the easter holiday. and the kids love the candy; they got baskets from us and also had a easter egg hunt at my MIL’s. There were unfortunately 2 deaths in my family this [...]

I am finding letter writing to my sisters and brothers slow going. My relationships with them are all about childhood stuff or our current relationships with our parents…I have found that I don’t really know my siblings that well as people, as individuals outside of our family. This surprises and saddens me. I have one [...]

My husband likes to keep stuff stirred up between me and my mother-in-law. It was suggested to me that he’s just being thoughtless. I can understand his being a little thoughtless for a year or so, but we’ve been together since 1996. 9 frigging years!! He should have caught on by now, eh? He has [...]

My mother…is a saint! She was such a patient and calm and understanding mother, it rocks my world now because I am *just* beginning to understand how much she had to deal with. I have 8 sisters and 5 brothers and was raised with 7 sisters and 3 brothers (the others were long grown; my [...]

On my family: Iyende needs a bunch of driving hours to get her license, so I wil help her with that. I’m also gonna volunteer at all their schools, which really isn’t much, just an hour or 2 here and there but I have 3 kids at 3 different schools so the time adds up. [...]

I’m really consumed with money lately. The making it, the having it, the spending it. Mostly the making it. I sent out my resume to a bunch of places, and now months later I’m finally get called back. I figure I’ve got this degree, I might as well use it, right? Wrong. Iyende is 16 [...]

This past Labor day weekend was so much fun! We did the ‘nuclear family’ hang out bit, just me, Brian, and the kids. Sunday Brian and I and the boys went to Cedar Point. Iyende stayed over a friend’s Sunday house and spent the night, so she didn’t come. First we went on some water [...]

I went dancing with my brother John last Saturday after my daughter’s birthday party. It was so much fun! We haven’t gone out together in I don’t know how long, years and years. He recently moved back to Cleveland and everytime we talked we kept saying, yeah, we should go out! but just never got [...]

I just found out today that my maternal great-grandmother, after whom I am named, suffered from the same heart condition that is plauging me now. Thanks a lot, grandma. That’s unfair of me, I take it back. I have done the same to some future unfortunate descendent, passing on my DNA through my 3 offspring. [...]

My dad came to town today. I knew he was coming in and needed to be picked up at the Greyhound station this morning, around 8am. He called at 7:20, luckily Iyende was up. For once I was asleep but managed to wake up enough to talk to him. He said he knew I was [...]

My aunt is in the hospital tonight. My mom called me and told me my aunt had some problems with her heart and that she was at the hospital, the doctors weren’t sure what had happened. Two minutes after talking with her, my cousin (her daughter) called to tell me the same thing, with a [...]