Last week, after I had been blogging about my mother in law, CD for a bit, my husband said he didn't like my blog and told me to take it down. He thought that it just gushed too much about his mother and it was embarrassing. (So I have decided to make it much more filled with peace and love and How I want the World to be) And as Adele says, "mistakes are just memories made". Love it. Then she sets fire to the rain. What a brilliant lyricist. Others should heed and learn.
You know, I have a lot of days I want to set fire to the rain, too. Think about that.
I just like to reminisce on all the holidays, the birthdays, the gifts, all the little things that my inlaws, and especially my mother in law (goddess rest her soul) has done for our family over the years.
He is just too shy! He does not want the world to know how wonderful his family is! His mother Carroll, goddess rest her soul, his sisters Sandy and Cathy and their husbands Dean and Charlie. We have grown so close to them over the years and spend every holiday and birthday together, even Halloween, my favorite holiday.
You would not believe the wonderful things she has made for us, cute little handmade dolls and pillows and all sorts of beautiful things for the kids. She always made dolls, blankets, brought candy over, never missed a birthday or holiday. Always there for us, kind and loving and made everyone feel better.
They always come over for holidays, they always send gifts, and the little hand made ones are those that are most precious. And if you send them nice gifts they always write back with a beautiful hand made thank you note and you know you will never be ignored--you will always be loved by them. Sometimes when your gift isn't good enough, they still make you feel like you are the most wonderful person on earth.
What? Everything is good enough! I've got a brother and his wife in California, Duncan and Jude Sharp that never come over, never write, never facebook or call. They pretend hurt where there is none, there is nothing but love for everyone! So I pray for them all the time. I send them angels and light them candles. It's such a great thing my inlaws in Chicago are not like that--they are all kind and loving and doting--because everyone needs a ton of love and can use it where ever they find it.
That's a good topic for a blog--people afraid of love. Who does that? Well most likely people who have been hurt a lot over the years and are fearful and distrustful. Actually, it is only the mind that makes that up. The heart and spirit or soul is pure and only understands how to send and receive love, pure love. And when you have a mind that says "be afraid, very afraid" and tell everyone that everything someone else does is wrong or hurtful, the heart fights back and that results in disease.
I think this has been written about before. I believe that Yeshua has said this in ACIM and alludes to it in some sayings, both in the NT and in the apocrypha, or left out books of the NT.
So everyday I pray for them and I send out peace and love for my wonderful, kind, caring in laws and how much they love us and support us in all our needs.
I love to write and I love to blog. Mostly it's because my husband gives me so much free time and spare time to be myself. He is wonderful about that..
In any case, I send my entire family today peace and love and peace and love and xoxoxox.
Gwennie is doing great and emails me and texts me and so does Brenda, they're about the friendliest in the family, I've found.
take care all and send out peace and love.
I just wanted to blog about this to show other families how they can be perfect too and all loving and all supportive and how frequent emails, texts, phone calls bind us all together and make for a more perfect and wonderful world.
JoAnne
Oh, and here's another funny thing about how cluttered our house is, (besides the fact the basement has to be fixed up with shelves), a lot of the stuff is gifts the kids made for grandma but she never comes over. I have her gift for Mother's Day, but she did not show up for that. Well, I didn't buy my mother anything and she didn't show up either, but then she passed over last October.
ReplyDeleteHere's something even stranger. My mom died last October, and my husband's family showed up for the funeral. Crazy. I haven't seen them in years, it's always a big deal to get together with them, everything's a huge strain, nothing's perfect, nothing's good enough for them, etc. I'm sure you know the type.
DeleteSo here's a funny story. At Christmas they did not want to come over. So they go round and round wasting time about how they want to do "something else"--whatever. So they pick bowling! Bowling for a holiday family get together. I have not seen that Normal Rockwell painting, but go figure.
In any case, what I didn't know is they planned on going to a very expensive bowling alley in the burbs. I forget the name. But it cost my husband $350! $350 because he can't get his family in line.
Oh well. I think it's funny.
He says my relationship with his family is my problem. Puhlezz. Stand up for yourself. You're letting your wife crack the whip on that one? Won't work. That dog for sure won't hunt. You gotta deal with your own mother and sisters, not me. You have to demand respect and they they be civil and inclusive. After all, it's been almost 25 years, you'd think they notice I'm here, well other than ever 3 years at a bowling alley for christmas, my mother's funeral (and not once did any of them help out during her 4 year cancer ordeal, not once did they visit her or me or ask if I needed help, so the funeral was what? I felt like I had to entertain them because they were remote guests).
But funny. $350 every few years funny.
And some of my family isn't much better, see above.
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