"I may not be here next year"

[RebeccaB]

Every year, every holiday, hubs grandmother says this Granted, one year she'll be right, but I've heard it now for 18 years.

This year she said it because hubs aunt is hosting Thanksgiving at her house which is two hours away. Everyone else lives here. We just learned of this gathering over the weekend, and hubs parents are already planning a Thanksgiving meal at their place. They have close friends coming up from NC, and don't feel they can just ditch them, since they are staying with them. Anywhoo, hubs gram told us "I may not be here next year you know", when we said we weren't going to his aunts.
Well, I have to deal with my inlaws for the rest of my life so hubs and I are eating Thanksgiving with them, (and not just because they live right next door ).

 

[luvmarypoppins]

Wow, I have heard that before for sure. My mom would always tell us

"you better be here because this could be grannys last christmas, birthday, thanksgiving etc.

Well I got a phone call once that my sister died. She was like 32. My mom still kept telling me to come etc. We lived in the next state. Always would lay the guilt trip on me.

Then once I got another call and that was that my mom died and...we had granny come live with us. So sad as it was, I didnt have to worry about it anymore as she was just with us in our home etc.

I hope you have a wonderful holiday with grandma. (this is from my cancer wisdom which has taught me each day is precious no matter what).

Enjoy the holidays!!

 

[akcire]

Every year, every holiday, hubs grandmother says this Granted, one year she'll be right, but I've heard it now for 18 years.

This year she said it because hubs aunt is hosting Thanksgiving at her house which is two hours away. Everyone else lives here. We just learned of this gathering over the weekend, and hubs parents are already planning a Thanksgiving meal at their place. They have close friends coming up from NC, and don't feel they can just ditch them, since they are staying with them. Anywhoo, hubs gram told us "I may not be here next year you know", when we said we weren't going to his aunts.
Well, I have to deal with my inlaws for the rest of my life so hubs and I are eating Thanksgiving with them, (and not just because they live right next door ).

My husband's grandmother wrote her obituary in 1968 (the year her husband died--he was a 3 pack a day smoker). She would update her obituary at least every month. She actually out-lived her only child (died at 60), and died in 2007. The day of her death was 1 day before her 100th birthday. Grandma lived with my husband and I for the last 5 years of her life....so I feel your pain.

Most nights on her way to bed she would make a pithy comment like "Let's see if I wake up tomorrow" The first few times she said this she got a reaction out of me, after the 1000th time, I would just respond "Okay, see you in the morning"

 

[GeorgeG]

Yup, the holidays bring families together in love, peace and harmony. I hope it somehow works out for you.

 

[tvguy]

TV talk show host Merv Griffin apparently had a different out look judging from his headstone.

 

[DisneyBeagle]

I hate holiday guilt trips!!!!

 

[jenrose66]

Every year, every holiday, hubs grandmother says this Granted, one year she'll be right, but I've heard it now for 18 years.

This year she said it because hubs aunt is hosting Thanksgiving at her house which is two hours away. Everyone else lives here. We just learned of this gathering over the weekend, and hubs parents are already planning a Thanksgiving meal at their place. They have close friends coming up from NC, and don't feel they can just ditch them, since they are staying with them. Anywhoo, hubs gram told us "I may not be here next year you know", when we said we weren't going to his aunts.
Well, I have to deal with my inlaws for the rest of my life so hubs and I are eating Thanksgiving with them, (and not just because they live right next door ).

I have a great aunt who's been saying that to me since I was 6 years old...so that's 22 years. It used to really upset me as a child. Now that I'm an adult it's just annoying and it doesn't get a rise out of me. She says she doesn't see my kids enough and that she's gonna die soon. I told her she's been saying that for over 20 years and she's obviously going to live forever and seeing the kids a couple times a month is more than enough.

 

[Jestocost]

My grandmother said things like that for as long as I can remember and lived to be 105. I guess she was right eventually.

 

[Micca]

My mother pulled that stunt and I wouldn't have it. If she said "Oh I might not be here next year", I'd turn to DW and say "we'll get a smaller turkey."
BTW, she made it to 93 after about 30 years of "might not be here next year.:

 

[SandrA9810]

My great aunt is 88. Two years ago she sold her home and moved into a retirement community. To me, she's still going strong, but at the same time, she's not doing everything she used to do.
She's like the living history book of Greencastle, IN. She can tell you who's farm is who's, who's original farm land it was, when this or that was built, who married who, who died when. She is one work of art. But each time we leave, she says that "well I might not be here next year" deal, and there's no real health issues either. I hope there's another ten years of her hearing that. I also know she'd be a very miserable person if she gets to the day of being bed ridden and not getting out to do things.