My dysfunctional family
Posted: June 20, 2007 at 12:32 pm by pannDoes it strike you as strange that my mom has orchestrated an un-accompanied plane ride so that my nieces (ages 9 and 11) can come stay with me and my family for a week, and meanwhile I has not SPOKEN or even emailed at all with my brother or his wife about this yet? It seems I can host their children at my house for a week in July without ever talking to their parents?
Why don’t I call them? Why don’t they call me? I don’t even get it.
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June 20th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Hmmm, maybe they just totally trust you???
I know the feeling though. Sometimes it seems like people are just alarmingly eager to have some time off from their kids!!!
June 20th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
UMMMMMMM is mom going somewhere with them?
June 20th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Yes, my mom will have them at her house for one week also. So that makes it less weird…
My brother just lost his job recently after a severe bout of depression that landed him in the hospital for about a week.
So I know my mom’s intentions are good — get the girls away from their own dysfunctional family and into their EXTENDED dysfunctional family.
At least my own nuclear family is pretty darn functional – thanks to anti-depressants, they won’t be trading a depressed dad for a depressed auntie Pann.
June 20th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Families are crazy. All of them. That is all there is. And I’m glad the meds are working. Yay!
June 21st, 2007 at 1:37 am
Oh yeah, and it is also really screwed up that when my dad (divorced from my mom) happened to call me up and my daughter answered the phone and told him all about my nieces coming to visit, I felt kind of guilty because I had not told him about it. Like, talking and sharing information in my family is sort of a touch and go. Sheesh.