Yesterday, after my Alter Ego, Cranky Giraffe, posted about my son’s crazy little love letter to his newest idol, Lady Gaga, an old old blogging friend tweeted it, with an idea that maybe he could meet her! I know the likelihood of it being re-tweeted by anyone other than myself is pretty low… But who […]
“It’s been a long time since I came around Been a long time but I’m back in town And this time I’m not leaving without you” ~Stefani Germanotta (Lady Gaga) I know I haven’t been here blogging for quite a long time (almost a year and a half…), but there was something about blogging that […]
The airplane seat map shows that the emergency exit row seats are considered “less desirable.” It’s a little ironic since they come with extra leg room, even if they don’t recline (really, who needs to recline 2 inches when you have two extra feet of leg room?). I think the real reason they are less […]
This month I’m traveling around the country to check out fellowship positions. It is exhausting, trying, lonely, and often confusing. Most of all, I miss my kids. I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how fellowship and moving to one of these places would fit into the current, ideal, little life of […]
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing. ~John Butler Yeats, 1909 Is there a difference between pleasure and happiness? I had never really thought much about it until today. My husband sent me an interview by Dr. Robert Lustig, who just […]
Good choice. No arguments to be had with just a simple no. Sorry your husband lacks in the holiday/anniversary department.
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Thanks, Babe! I wish I could get used to his lack of celebration, but I think I want him to start celebrating about as much as he wishes I would stop caring about these “silly” occasions.
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Ugh. But, yes, good choice.
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I know… I know… I was sad about it all day!
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I hope you have a Happy Mother’s Day anyway. My mother died before I became a mother, and I always resented mother’s day. It just turned into extra work for me as my husband expected me to buy his mother a present, but he never felt obliged to acknowledge the mother of his children because I wasn’t his mother.
I think you should have gone with your last option. Unfortunately, men are the worst mind-readers and they need to be told what we need. Do you make a fuss of him on father’s day? If you do, I’d add that to the argument next year. Good luck.
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It’s funny, because he hates when I make a big deal about any of his holidays, but I do anyway! (and, partly I do it because I want him to realize that I want him to reciprocate)
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That’s a shame. Maybe it’s a difference in each other you both have to accept, in which case, you could try not making a fuss for him (he may decide he does like it if he doesn’t get it!), but arrange to make a fuss for yourself. Buy yourself a present, arrange to eat out at your favorite restaurant, or do something you really like doing. Spoil yourself! You deserve it.
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My husband went out of town for work this morning, then my 3 year old choked on a piece of candy, and I had to call 911… Wonderful Mother’s Day. BUT, I love my kiddo… and he told me thank you for saving his life 🙂
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I hope you had a lovely Mother’s Day yesterday – and everyday – some ‘guys’ do not get the concept of Mother’s Day or Father’s Day or Valentine’s Day. They just do not and I cannot understand why, unless it is something they were raised not thinking much about.
🙂
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For what its worth, I think you handled the situation very well.
I would have wound up with a frying pan upside the head.
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Hope you had a great Mothers Day regardless. Men can be so clueless sometimes about these things. I guess they operate with the mindset that since they don’t care about these holidays, nobody else does. Although you handled it very admirably, my husband would probably have gotten the silent then the cranky then the pissed off treatment for days. 🙂
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