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[RainCityWoman]

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Why does my friend think it's too far for her to drive out by me to have lunch, but it's not too far for me to drive out by her to have lunch?

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So you know my brother and sister-in-law? They haven't been over to my house in over 8 years yet I'm supposed to be there For all holidays.

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On the bright side, they are responsible for the whole celebration then. 

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Nope. They only prepare the things they like. If I want other traditional foods like cranberry sauce on Thanksgiving, I have to bring it myself. This year I offered to make Thanksgiving and bring the entire cooked meal to their house since it was "inconvenient" to come to mine. Instead they insisted that I bring everything over to their house to cook. First and last time!!!!!!! I hated cooking in someone else's kitchen,

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To quote a first lady, "Just say NO." You are way too kind.

[RainCityWoman]

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What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about?

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@QueenDanceALot

I have a sign that says that on the wall if my tsv room! 

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On Big Bang Theory, Leonard threw his back out doing the Hokey Pokey. Apparently THAT may be what it's all about.

[RainCityWoman]

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@SunValley Well, it didn't bother me because I never lived with my mother.  When I was 3 months old I went to live with my father, grandmother and her daughter (never married) Aunt.  My Dad and Grandmother raised me.

My Grandmother hated my mother so I never knew or saw her,  I didn't have anything to do with her until I started living with my older sister and her children when I was around 13.

I have two 1/2 sisters (by the second husband (married him 2 times and he was her true love).  We are all really good friends and don't think of ourselves as anything but sisters.  We are a large and very close family.

My family has some of everything (people and you name it, screw ups, etc).  But in the end we accept each other as they are and if anyone, anyone needs anything the other person is there in a minute.  Just the way it is.

Actually, my poor late husband was involved in the last 2 divorces.  My mother had him come to court and testify for her.  Ha!  Then she remarried him.  

They were all good guys it's mainly my mother was very temperamental and well....nothing got past her.  Women in my family are extremely strong and strong-willed.  It is a good thing and a not so good thing.  There are mostly all females in my family and even my extended family.  My nephew had 8 children.  Seven were all girls!  You have no idea when we get together!

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I too was raised by my dad and my grandmother (his mother.)  I consider myself very fortunate. Grandma was a nurturing, selfless, remarkable woman, and my dad was my lifelong hero. My mother wasn't really in my life, for almost 11 years, due to mental illness. I never really bonded with her, though we became closer toward the end of her life. I've never been able to determine completely what caused her breakdown, even after I read all her institutional files after her death. I have my own suspicions as to what went on in her young life since she was raised by her grandmother as well. I know it wasn't a good atmosphere for a little girl. Thank heaven for her that she married my dad who took his vows seriously and stayed with her 56 years in sickness and in health, till death parted them. And then I became her defender until her death 5 years later.