Milieu of Me

So it’s been a month since I last posted.

I probably should be banished to some southern part of Siberia or something for that, but I’m sorry. This December has been the busiest I have EVER seen. EVER. All my church stuff ended for the “semester” and then the parties started, and then we bought two new cars and I had to research and do all that, and then I had to buy Christmas presents for everyone, and then my little baby took a giant step towards toddlerhood and it is officially impossible to get ANYTHING done that requires not looking at him.

So my apologies, but life has been crazy. CRAZY.

So my parents totally bailed on me in regards to the whole creep scenario. After my mom promised me I wouldn’t have to deal with it, my father called me and told me not to confuse acceptance with tolerance.

Then my sister walked into Christmas with a giant ring he’d given her. It’s a promise ring that is huge. My mom hugged him and then he got more presents than my husband did. I think they’ve made it pretty clear what they think, and that’s fine with me. I don’t plan on going back down anytime soon. I tried to talk to the creep about life and make it so he and I could coexist and he pretty much refused to talk to me. He told me I was blowing things out of proportion once, and doesn’t even act like he knows me at all anyway. It seriously is the most perplexing thing to me, and after this whole Christmas debacle I’m not sure that I’m all that worried about it anymore. Actions speak so much louder than words in my book anyway, and it’s been my experience that my parents don’t much care for me anyway so whatever. I have the boy, and his family and it’ll be fine.

They did spoil the wee one mercilessly for Christmas, including every baby toy known to man, and he really LOVES my mom and dad. He smiled and cooed and played with everyone and did awesome. He even slept all the way to Algona on the way down, and slept the entire way back to Minneapolis.

We were in Algona the 22rd, on to Laurens and my parents the 23rd, the 24th went to church with the boys mom’s, the 25th went to the boy’s Mom’s after lunch, and then on the 26th headed back to Minneapolis. The 27th on we went over to they boy’s Grandma’s everyday as the boy’s sister flew in from South Dakota, and his Mom came up and we just stared at the baby. It’s amazing how much you can stare at one baby. Family time with the boy’s family was of course wonderful, and the wee one of course loved them and we got lots of cool presents and it was awesome!