My mom called last night an announced that she is coming to town for Thanksgiving. I told her we are having Thanksgiving with my bosses. She said she will have Thanksgiving with my sister and she will see us another day. She is going to stay with my sister, which is fine, but is about 100 miles away. My sister has Mother watching her kids on Black Friday so she can go out and shop.
Mother said I should drive up there and go shopping, too. Um, no thanks! I can shop JUST FINE without driving 100 miles. DS would rather chew his own arm off than go shopping.
My mother is interesting. She doesn't budget at all, and her SS checks will run out in March when my sister turns 16. But Mother doesn't want a job other than her little part time job in a school cafeteria because that will mess up her benefits. Her car is ancient and not reliable, but she is planning to DRIVE down here from Kansas. I told her she should probably rent a car. Not that she should spend the money, but she should NOT try to drive her car. And a rental would get better gas mileage. She refuses to fly. I have offered to buy a ticket for her and my youngest sister to fly down, but NO.
My mother frustrates DH to no end, so he wasn't thrilled to hear that she is coming. Hopefully she will stay with my sister the whole time and we will just visit with her. We don't have room for overnight guests, but she did stay with us once. She got very offended last time when I said we have to be QUIET after 8 PM because DH has to get up at 1 AM and go to work. She doesn't like to be told she has to be quiet. Excuse me? If you can't be respectful of DH then you don't need to be sleeping in our living room! I didn't want her to spend the money for a hotel but she was really quite rude when she stayed here. And since we have no idea what DH's schedule will be for that week (I expect it will be ugly!) I am certainly not going to offer to let her stay with us again.
When she was here over Spring Break she just spent a few hours with DS. Her main goal was to spend time with my sister's baby. Now my sister has TWO babies so Mother really needs to come visit them. It irks me that she doesn't seem interested in DS and she is the only grandparent he has.
I'm on the laptop!
for Rees coming home.
for John
