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[easyas123]

Now, that age difference isn't noticeable at all. I have noticed that the sister is the boss when it comes to their aging parents, and the 2 boys (yeah, I call them boys... ) just sit back and do what she tells them to do. Hey, if it works for them, who am I to argue?

That's how it is for us - one of my brothers says he gets to take Dad sailing, and I get to take him to his colonoscopy!
We actually have a in-law suite at our house, so that is where they stay when they are up this way, it is what has worked out best. Luckily our parents are young, just early 70's, enjoy good health, and very active so we are enjoying 'parenting older parents' ha ha!

 

[fla4fun]

I have one sister, and we are close and work together on many things. Our strengths are kind of opposite and our thinking very similar, so working toward a common goal is easy and between us we manage to cover all the bases.

 

[lynxstch]

Question of the day: 4/29: Do you have siblings? Do you work well together?

I don't have siblings. I've always been an only and mostly I'm fine with it but of course with the challenges of my mom, I wish I had brother/sister to share with but also know that's not how it always goes. My husband has a sister and brother. They are all really different people. It wasn't not necessarily team effort when things went south with my FIL. I did not envy my husband or myself the positions we were in. Now seeing the struggles with my husband's grandma and 8 siblings and 8 opinions and count in spouses and grandchildren. It's like the siblings need a tie breaker, which was Matt's dad who made 9. Now we tend to be the tie breaker voting in dad's proxy. Mostly I'm too bossy to want to share my decision making and fine being an only.

Nope..no siblings here either. Hubby has 2 brothers and a sister, one of whom I am very close with.
Sorry about Matt's grandma
It was sunny and almost 75 here today. I decided to mow the lawn before flooding rains tomorrow. Made it thru more than 1/2 when mower hit something under a bush. Terrible sound. Mower stopped. Looked under, badly bent blade. Called the place we bought the mower from. They said bring it right in and we'll change it. Well they changed it, but balked at trying to start it to make sure it started. Guess what..it didn't. So one of my Mothers Day gifts is a brand new shiny self propelled mower, lol. I just raced thru the back yard finishing it up, this thing really moves! Second early Mothers Day gift is a new Shark vacuum. My old vacuum just doesn't work right anymore, so I have to say thank you to Mr Trump for the stimulus. It paid for both things, lol
Grateful that I have a new mower that actually is self propelling
Grateful for a new vacuum, even though it's still in the box, too tired to open it tonite
Grateful that we missed being involved in a very bad 3 tractor trailer accident on the highway, where we just just come thru 20 min before that
Time for some tv and bed, I am tired, lol!

 

[hereyago]

I am an only. My mom had a ectopic pregnancy when I was 3.

 

[gwynne]

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[gillep]

I have one older brother and two older half brothers. I don't have a relationship with the half brothers at all but my full brother and I are very close. We pretty much hated one another until I was about 30, now we are extremely close. He is one of my favorite people to talk to, I think we just had to find our groove and how to move from annoying children to an adult relationship built on mutual respect and love. We are about as different as it comes but he is intelligent and well spoken so even arguing with him is stimulating and interesting, I learn a lot from having him in my life and I am so thankful for him.

My husband has two sisters, I love them both, but it is a very different type of relationship between me and them and my husband and them than I have with my brother.

I made copycat White Castle sliders for lunch, they were quite good and my husband loved them. Dinner is chicken tacos.

Hopefully my electrical issue can be fixed tomorrow!

 

[Kittyblue]

Question of the day: 4/28: Ride the rides at theme parks?
Do you ride the rides at theme parks? Roller coasters? The log rides? Bumper cars? I do not ride a lot of thrill rides as I don't like them.

God I used to love roller coasters. I just can't do them anymore, I get such motion sickness and my day is ruined. DL is about the max thrill I can handle. I also can't do virtual rides like Star Tours, though I'll make myself sit through them once. For some reason Soarin doesn't bother me.

Question of the day: 4/29: Do you have siblings? Do you work well together?

My siblings and I don't exactly get along. We can be civil but our interactions don't feel like a real connection. I don't even know my nieces and nephews outside of facebook pics.

 

[Breezy_Carol]

Tina, sorry to hear about Matt's grandma.

Today is my birthday. Ive had a pretty great day all things considered.

Tonight is Survivor. Its my favorite show and I always live tweet it. All my real favorites are gone already so I cant even get too heartbroken over who gets voted out tonight. LOL

Happy Birthday!
I also watch Survivor but I can't keep up with all the wheeling and dealing for the votes.

Today I brought some old toys out of the basement to clean up for when DGD comes. It was 70 but very windy. Supposed to pour tomorrow but be nice this weekend.

I am now watching Little Fires Everywhere on Hulu. DD wanted me to watch and give her my opinion as we both read the book. So far I am liking it.

Dinner tonight was ham slice with onions and tomatoes over rice. A favorite of DH's and it was tasty.

Question of the day: 4/29: Do you have siblings? Do you work well together?

I have one brother, 3 years younger. We have our moments. When I went away to college, he wrote to me often. It helped that we no longer had to share a bathroom. I got ticked at him when my father was ill 20 years ago but I don't think he knew. I had more hands on caring for my mom because she was in MD, as I am, and DB is in CT. Since both parents are now gone we seem to be talking more. Especially when his son had some problems and now during this pandemic.

Gratitudes:
Relatively nice weather today.
More contact with my brother. Tina, thanks for making me see this.
Accomplished a little more cleaning.

 

[AuntieMe3]

Question of the day 4/27: Are you an outdoor person?

Do you like to hike or walk on trails? Are you out wandering on a bicycle? Sleep under the stars?

I like nature but I don't necessarily consider myself an outdoor person. I like sitting out on our back patio when the weather's nice( I live in the desert so we have a very small period of time that I consider nice.... ) We love to visit national parks but we're not doing big hikes while were there. Love going the beach and LOVE swimming, especially in a pool though, I just need some shade....too much sun is starting to affect my skin in strange ways. I used to love to go camping, I still think it would be fun to go camping but I think we're too old for that now. LOL My husband always says his favorite place to camp is a DoubleTree.... If we are someplace with a balcony and beautiful view I will sit out on it for a long time enjoying that view. Also....I have pretty bad allergies so being outside usually ends up with me sneezing my head off if I dont take my allergy pills....lol

Question of the day: 4/28: Ride the rides at theme parks?

Do you ride the rides at theme parks? Roller coasters? The log rides? Bumper cars?

I like ride, I don't think I can handle extreme rides anymore though. None of Disneyland rides are extreme to me, my absolute favorite ride is the Guardians of the Galaxy ride(formally Tower of Terror...) I LOVE the drops...i could go on it over and over and over again if I was able. My streak has been 3 in a row before the line go to long to get into again. I always hated bumper cars because I feel so out of control in there. I was always stuck in a corner with people crashing into me. LOL

We made turkey burgers the other night but the only type of ground turkey they had was Jennie O and I knew there was a reason I didn’t buy that - I thought they tasted funny. (Anyone else find that? It tastes chemical-ly to me!) Very disappointed!

I only like Jennie O ground turkey. We got some Foster Farms when stores were limited and I hated it. It was so yucky to me.

Question of the day: 4/29: Do you have siblings? Do you work well together?

I have 1 brother and 1 sister. We are all close, never argue or fight, our childhood had some issues like I'm sure everyone had so we can commiserate with each other about growing up the way we did. I was given a LOT of responsibility when I was younger even though I'm only 2 years old than my brother and 7 years older than my sister, I was almost like a second mother and I'm kind still the same way. I take care of anything that needs to be taken care of in regards to our parents, I'm physically closer so its the easiest but I think its just always been me to take care of things so I still do. If we need something financially for our parents, they will help out some that way but I do everything they need taken care of. My mom calls me pretend grandma because I do things for my niece and nephews she wishes she could do for them but physically can't because of her disability.

My husband has a Brady Bunch family....his dad had kids, his mom had kids, they got married and had 2 kids together, hubby is the youngest. My MIL is a horrible person and treated her stepchildren horribly, I think they held that against hubby and his brother so they are not close, except for one sister that he is still in some contact with. MIL also pitted her other children against each other so there was ALWAYS conflict(still is). The only one hubby is extremely close with is his full blood brother, they had a rough childhood and neither are in contact with MIL anymore....she can reel hubby in every once in awhile, takes advantage of his good heart, and then dumps on him again after she gets what she wants. BIL keeps trying to tell hubby to stop letting her get to him but he always feels bad, hopefully he'll eventually learn.


So I said the other day I was ready for warm weather but I wasn't quite ready for it to be full on summer already....lol Last week we were in the 60's, yesterday and today have been in the 90's. Yuck...LOL

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I am an only child, sometimes I don't work well with myself

 

[monkeydawn]

Happy Birthday!
I also watch Survivor but I can't keep up with all the wheeling and dealing for the votes.

I am now watching Little Fires Everywhere on Hulu. DD wanted me to watch and give her my opinion as we both read the book. So far I am liking it.

Thank you! And for a present they subtitled the tribal whispers tonight. It helped some but there was much more strategy talk tonight than we have seen most of the season and that helped too.

I love Reese Witherspoon. Our TV seems like its on its last legs and then rallies. I have been waiting to get a TV that has Apple TV and Hulu options integrated as our Chromecast doesnt stream that well from the iphones. I know we could just get a new TV without being forced into it but then any little thing that goes wrong I will be kicking myself for giving up on an appliance that (mostly) works. Played that game before and lost. LOL

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

Question of the day: 4/29: Do you have siblings? Do you work well together?

I don't have siblings. I've always been an only and mostly I'm fine with it but of course with the challenges of my mom, I wish I had brother/sister to share with but also know that's not how it always goes. My husband has a sister and brother. They are all really different people. It wasn't not necessarily team effort when things went south with my FIL. I did not envy my husband or myself the positions we were in. Now seeing the struggles with my husband's grandma and 8 siblings and 8 opinions and count in spouses and grandchildren. It's like the siblings need a tie breaker, which was Matt's dad who made 9. Now we tend to be the tie breaker voting in dad's proxy. Mostly I'm too bossy to want to share my decision making and fine being an only.

I have an older brother and three older sisters (one of whom has passed). No, we don't work together at all; we are barely in touch, and all of it on Facebook. My oldest sister has never taken responsibility for her actions, and I am still dealing with the fallout of her behavior; my middle sister (who passed) was a drug addict and alcoholic before she passed; and the last sister is the kind of person that either is using you, and therefore likes you, or has no use for you and dislikes you. My brother was a wild guy for a long time, but has mellowed, and has a 'let me live your life, I'll let you live yours' mentality.


Dinner tonight was a Stouffers lasanga, and some frozen veggies (green beans for DS and I; DH went with his usual broccoli/cauliflower/carrot mix. I baked a devil's food cake with a vanilla frosting with spring colored sprinkles on it. DH finished off the chocolate ice cream yesterday, and there's still about half of the pineapple d.w. left, but I wanted something else sweet tonight.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Happy Birthday,, Monkey Dawn

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Boy that was a loaded question, Tina!

I do have siblings and I would say we are pretty close, but you are correct, things can get dicey, especially when it comes to care of parents and the aftermath! Being able to make decisions and not have to explain them or have people second guess them is a nice thing when you are dealing with a crisis, and you have Matt to support you! I am very close with one of my SILs too, but love all my in law siblings.

I just wanted to share that in the hospital yesterday the chaplains and a priest came by to see a sick patient. Some of us (nurses) gathered around before they left and they gave us a special blessing. The priest also told us that his whole congregation is praying for us, too, and it made me feel so good to think of that. I know lots of people are praying and I just want to say thank you and tell you how much it means to us. Some of our coworkers have gotten sick and are hospitalized, and that is so hard to fathom. So thank you.

 

[PollyannaMom]

@apirateslifeforme - I didn’t know your story. It must really be hard to explain all that to your little one.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I have one sibling. We get along fine, but live many states apart, so don’t work together. - We We do enjoy getting together for visits, though!

DH is the youngest of 3, and DS is an only. - We always made sure he knew it was OK to see the advantages as well as disadvantages to that, though. So while he has sometimes wished for a sibling, I don’t think he’s miserable without one. And thankfully, he has cousins nearby who share some of the same childhood memories.

 

[monkeydawn]

Happy Birthday,, Monkey Dawn

Thank you!

 

[firefly_ris]

Question of the day: 4/29: Do you have siblings? Do you work well together?

No siblings. I grew up wanting an older brother -- which was obviously impossible the moment I was born, ha. There were not a lot of children in my family either. I grew up being raised by old italian ladies.

I have 3 kids and they have 6 first cousins, and like 40 second cousins (husband's parents both have large families) so they drive me nuts when they tell me they are 'bored'. I tell them I found a lot of creative ways to keep myself occupied, using my imagination. I also tell them they aren't really bored until they start playing board games with the dog like I did. Then I usually kick them outside and tell them to build something out of sticks or something....

 

[Nox]

Question of the day: 4/29: Do you have siblings? Do you work well together?

Four half-siblings, one full sibling.

My sibling situation is complicated. Best described as having "no relationship" with three of my half-siblings. Combination of age difference and distance means that I just don't really have anything to do with them.

The oldest half-sister and I get along fine. My full sister and I begrudgingly tolerate each other and put on a nice face. She always wished she was an only child and that I had never been born, and that has shaped our entire relationship. She is a self-centered narcissist at best, and always looks down on me and insults me and my husband, disguised as "joking around." The less time we spend together, the better.

I also have two SILs. One, we won't talk about (she's never done anything wrong to us, it's just a sad situation.) The other is a user. A few months ago she started probing to find out how much money we made, then in the same breath started complaining about how she had a bad tooth and couldn't afford to do anything about it. My husband had a dentist friend take care of it for free (and I was never offered any money for the $50 worth of tolls racked up on my transponder going to see him) and ever since she messages him asking for things. Borrowing stuff. Now she's on about her husband has a bad tooth that needs to be pulled. Why do you suppose she's telling us?

In lighter topics, my husband and I have been going on walks every day. It's been nice. I've always wanted a pair of Moxi roller skates, and I'm thinking I might finally invest in them. I'm currently using skates that aren't actually made for outside, so it's pretty difficult to skate with them.

 

[gwynne]

@Nox I googled Moxi skates because I'm not familiar with them. They come in such cool colors! What a fun way to spend time outside.