Ugh, I’m glad your story turned out that way. I can imagine my mother doing exactly the same thing when she dies and I’m gonna have to LIE MY ASS OFF. See, my sister and I were fucking angels and still got (and get) treated like we’re horrible ungrateful wretches. When we’re alone we always joke about how much…
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No, no. No fish. Fiddleheads are a local thing, from a fern. It’s a sort of vegetable. Spruce tips are from spruce trees. Kind of citrus-y. The pizzas at this place are neopolitan style and they always have a weekly feature with local stuff on top. Not like a Chicago style at all I guess.
I definitely lucked out when it came to my mom.
Thank you. It’s something I struggle with still, 8 years on.
The “armpit” of Canada is better than any city in America right now. Have you seen our current president?
The older you get the more “young” you will feel given that you had a child young. I’m 45 and our son is 24. It is absolute hell to be young parents: finances, maturity, etc. It is absolute heaven to be 45 and watch everybody else your age go to PTA meetings and bake sales.
This gave me all the feels and a gut punch (like literally in the middle of your story I gasped and the tears started pouring). As someone who didn’t get the chance to tell my mom in her last days how amazing she was at being a mom, your answer was so perfect and I’m sure it set her heart at ease. So lovely. Thank…
Well I haven’t spoken to my mother in four and a half years. I walked away from the last sibling a year ago. It’s been delightfully freeing. Extended family was always low contact but I haven’t seen any of them either.
Sigh. This was my afternoon:
I have one lovely dog and we are totally co-dependent. :)
If anyone else is feeling dread about Mother’s Day for any reason, I feel you. I grew up with a psychologically abusive mother and enabling family members. Over the past few years I’ve been trying to change the situation, and have greatly reduced the time I spend with them, but tomorrow is brunch at one of my…
It just gets better and better- even after 40!
44 here and for Mother’s Day my oldest is taller than me.
Did you know Hostess makes ice cream? I did not, until this week, but I saw it at Target and picked up a gallon, because how could you not? The one I tried— Sno Balls — was to die for. This amazing marshmallow ice cream, a subtle coconut swirl, and chocolate cakes pieces. I tried a bite when I got home from the store,…
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Where do you get such a pizza?!
Happy birthday!!!!! <3 That pizza looks absolutely lovely!
I’m having a bad ‘my fiance has stage iv cancer’ week. Not a lot of feeling hopeful and a lot of spontaneous crying. I do not feel like we got this. Oh by the way, I also probably gave him mono and I feel terrible about it. Please send me your cute animals.
With Mother’s Day coming up tomorrow, I just wanted to share the story of when I was eight and my mom threw a can of creamed corn at me in a grocery store. In her defense, she did yell “Here, catch!” as the corn was halfway through its trajectory; just in time for me to look up, ensuring it hit me square in the face.…