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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (37776)	5/10/1999 6:18:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 108807

You betcha. I still have some 10+ year old kid art on my bedroom closet door -- need it there to remind me that they once were nice people! <g>

To: Ilaine who wrote (37776)	5/10/1999 6:49:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

The flowers were brought by friends, Blue. Other guests brought wine and/or desserts. My younger son and his wife bought me a card, but forgot to bring it. My other son (father of my two grandsons) and his new wife (not their mother) phoned me. As I said, we never made a fuss over Mother's Day, because I always thought it a purely commercial holiday, invented by retailers in order get folks to buy as much unnecessary stuff as possible for their mothers, to compensate for neglecting them the rest of the year. Turns out, I was wrong. holidays.net I may have acquired this distaste for pumped-up holidays from my paternal grandmother. She was a devout Catholic, and vehemently objected to what she said was the commercialization of Christmas. I can recall spending one Christmas with my grandparents, by myself. As a concession to me, there was a little tree -- but it was undecorated, and there were no presents under it. And there was a Christmas stocking. Imagine my disappointment, when I found nothing in it but tangerines and some nuts! But going to midnight mass was exciting....I got to stay up late! Joan P.S. The grandkids' art is on the fridge, in between the classic "Calvin and Hobbes" and "Outland" cartoons. It's getting a little greasy, so I will either have to laminate it or request some newer art...

To: Ilaine who wrote (37776)	5/11/1999 12:33:00 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

We don't do mother's day or father's day. We don't even do birthdays, except for the game of trying to get to say, "Ha ha, you forgot my birthday, you forgot my birthday!" when it gets dark on the day of the forgotten birthday. We did birthdays and Christmas for our son, still do, and for his little ones; but.... I don't know why we feel this way. Both our families did the usual things. I would feel awful if forgetting his birthday hurt his feelings, of course. Sometimes if i want to buy something I think I shouldn't, even if it's six months until my birthday, we agree that it's my birthday present; and if he doesn't want to treat himself to something, I insist he do it for his next birthday, or last. We may actually come out way ahead using this system, it occurs to me. Once we had a bunch of people for Christmas Eve, when we have our present-opening, some friends, some family and distant family, and realized at the last minute that we hadn't gotten anything for each other to open; so I just wrapped up some junk that we had already. We started laughing, so the ruse didn't work quite as planned.