Let me start off by saying that most of the time I love our family and everything is usually peachy keen. However the last few weeks are about to drive us all crazy!
I have lived out here in Dallas for almost 8 years and for the most part I haven't asked for hardly any help from my family. I have worked extremely hard to get where I am in life....good paying job, bills paid, clothes on our back, decent credit score, a plcae to live and so on. By trying to keep all these things in order I haven't been able to afford to go out and visit my family near as much as they want me to. They have openely admitted that they feel like I have cut them from my life and in a way I had to, especially when I first moved here. They live a very different lifestyle than I do, and at the time that I moved here I already had my own issues that I was struggling with. I couldn't work through my issues and still be completely active in their lives because it just wouldn't have worked. I thought that I had finally straightened things out with my family and now I think it's all gone to crap again. I feel like they think that I think I'm better than them, and that I don't need them in my life at all. Which is completely wrong! I love them and all of their little quirks. Let me take credit for my inaction by not calling more or emailing more or just plain not remembering to send birthday cards. But they don't either. Three quarters of the time they flake out on me and never do what they say they will. I was really afraid that none of them were going to come out for the baby shower that Steven's Mom is hosting at the end of this month. Seriously pregnancy hormones can't take something like that.
Now the other side of the family....Steven and I both are about to go crazy dealing with his family. There is always drama with his sister and brother-in-law, and the latest involves Dad and Steven helping move them in with Mom and Dad. Did I mention they had to do this in the rain the same afternoon after we buried Steven's Uncle? So yeah that's one thing. Then you add in all the family that has come to town to be here for Randy's passing and the memorial service and the funeral. I'll blog about Randy's passing later, but it was really hard on all of us. I have a hard time thinking about that day because I was there. Randy's sister Connie came in from Florida and has been driving everyone crazy. She has come into town and put together a laundry list of things that need to get done and put Steven's Dad to work doing them. The only thing is that his Dad has a kidney stone and has been told by his doctor not to do any physical activities that might knock it loose because he is supposed to have surgery on Oct 3 on it. And another sister that no one has seen in years has shown up and she is trying to be best friends with everyone. She keeps offering to babysit all the little kids and says that she's moving in with Nanny now and all of this stuff. She says the most inappropriate things at the most inapprpriate times and no one knows how to act around her. Everything has just been crazy for the last two weeks!
We are ready for a nice break from family interaction.
Now the other side of the family....Steven and I both are about to go crazy dealing with his family. There is always drama with his sister and brother-in-law, and the latest involves Dad and Steven helping move them in with Mom and Dad. Did I mention they had to do this in the rain the same afternoon after we buried Steven's Uncle? So yeah that's one thing. Then you add in all the family that has come to town to be here for Randy's passing and the memorial service and the funeral. I'll blog about Randy's passing later, but it was really hard on all of us. I have a hard time thinking about that day because I was there. Randy's sister Connie came in from Florida and has been driving everyone crazy. She has come into town and put together a laundry list of things that need to get done and put Steven's Dad to work doing them. The only thing is that his Dad has a kidney stone and has been told by his doctor not to do any physical activities that might knock it loose because he is supposed to have surgery on Oct 3 on it. And another sister that no one has seen in years has shown up and she is trying to be best friends with everyone. She keeps offering to babysit all the little kids and says that she's moving in with Nanny now and all of this stuff. She says the most inappropriate things at the most inapprpriate times and no one knows how to act around her. Everything has just been crazy for the last two weeks!
We are ready for a nice break from family interaction.
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