Today I opened up facebook to see my sister post:
Mommy is coming today!!! Gawd I miss my Mom!! Can’t wait to see what her acerbic witt comes up with this time. She blows into town and starts giving all the kids crap if they’re not doing what they’re supposed to do. Which means I don’t have to be the only bad guy (that they actually listen to) for the next week. …They love Grammie – she’s as whacked as we are… =P
I…
I’m tempted to throw together a bag and get out of town. I have no fucking idea where I would go but it would be awfully convenient to say when she calls (cause she will) “Oh… I’m out of town. Sorry.”
She’ll be calling a cellphone. You could claim to be out of town either way.
You know, that resort in New Zeeland has California cousins. I hear Windsor is nice this time of year, but there are also lots of other options. If you’re willing to put up with the horrendous mess, you’re also welcome to stay at Casa Satyr (but I must warn you, we’ve been swamped and I haven’t vacuumed or mopped in over a week – maybe even pushing two).
But on a more serious note, that is totally NOT cool. If I were you, I’d run too. She’s likely to just SHOW UP, if she’s anything like my mom.
I hear Santa Cruz is nice this time of year… you know, I bet the kid would love the sand… I’d totally offer to take her, but I don’t think you’d want your darling child whisked off to a debauched college town by a college student and (ugh!) drummer. Clearly, you’d want to take her yourself.
P.S.
The butterflies are gorgeous. I wonder if they’re still around…?
Ooh. Good call on that.
If you think I would object to my daughter hanging out with you, then you obviously don’t know me very well. 😛 You are very much the kind of freak I want my kid to know. 🙂
I don’t think it is butterfly season. But I’ve been there to see them and they are gorgeous. 🙂
Huh… I seem to recall last time I “baby sat” she was howling by the time you came back from washing your hands in the Thai restaurant in Davis. I felt so bad!
Heh. At that stage she did that if I left her sight when she was sitting on Noah. She is much more friendly now. 🙂 When our babysitter comes over she barely remembers to say goodbye as she shoves us out the door. It’s very cute.
If only …
If only you could arrange to have all calls from her number forwarded to someone else.
A reverse safe-call?
A good point!
Google Voice was suggested to me for this sort of screening. Customized outgoing voicemail based on the number calling you? Doesn’t fix everything, but made me feel better. Take a look?
http://www.youtube.com/googlevoice
I don’t know what you’re worried about, so far as I know you are downstairs playing with Shanna on the couch and watching the Olympics. You and Noah are in the guest room. We picked you up at the airport Wednesday morning. You are so out of the mom-visiting picture!
(give me an hour or five with photoshop and I will make it happen, cap’n.)
You are so awesome. I totally love you. <3
Aww, no! I want you to come visit me! We have fresh snow and it’s _really_ pretty and I baked fresh scones and can have a bunch of little sandwiches ready in the time it takes to make tea :o) Also, I was planning on baking a cake today…
At first I was like “WTF?” because it totally didn’t sound like you, then I thought it was sarcasm, then I realized I’d missed the bit where you were quoting your sister. Does she really like having Grammie boss her kids around with whacky ideas, or is she being sarcastic?
She’s happy to have my mother here and she finds the bossing comforting. It’s knowing her ‘place’ and all that. Not my bag.
And her ‘kids’ are mostly the local drug addicts who live with her. She started taking them in when they were getting into lots of trouble in high school. I don’t think that every teenager who is troubled should be kicked to the curb, but I question enabling them and supplying them with alcohol and drugs. My sister desperately wants to be ‘cool’.
Ah, then I’m more in support of Grammie bossing them.
Maybe she’ll get her bossiness out on them and won’t have any left for you?? 😀
Hell, I just turned my phone off. I will say that Shanna ran off with it and lost it and the battery ran out.
Shanna for the win!
But have you considered just telling her that and actually giving her number a ringtone of “silent”? Then you could still use your phone when she’s in town.
forward her calls to me.
i’ll speak to her in loud, broken english.
should be fun!