A mother who has to spend Mother’s Day at the mother-in-law’s (956 hits)
Dear Carolyn: I have two elementary school-age children, and my in-laws live about an hour from us. Every year, we end up spending Mother’s Day with them, church followed by a Mother’s Day brunch at some restaurant, followed by hours of sitting at someone’s house talking. That probably doesn’t sound so bad except that the weather in May is usually lovely and I like to spend my weekend time outside (I work in an office all week). I like to do active things, not eat a lot of food and then sit. And the talking revolves heavily around news about their family friends (people I do not know), usually gossip — they are so negative and critical of other people’s lives. I hate to sound selfish, but I’m ...
