Over the weekend, we had a Mother’s Day brunch with J’s family. His 7-year-old nephew sat next to me at the table and he kept referring to J as my husband. I let it go the first few times he said it, but after a while I thought it was best to correct him. The ensuing conversation was priceless…
Me: Sweetie, Uncle J is not my husband. He’s my boyfriend.
Nephew: What do you mean?
Me: Well…I mean that we aren’t married. We haven’t had a wedding.
Nephew: But I don’t understand. Don’t you own two dogs together?
Me: Yes, we do.
Nephew: And you live in the same house together?
Me: Yes, we do.
Nephew: And you are my aunt and you have been since before I was born.
Me: Yes, that’s all true.
Nephew: But you never had a wedding and you aren’t married? I don’t get it.
Me: I don’t get it either. Maybe we should ask Uncle J to explain it.
Nephew went off in search of J and came back to me a few minutes later…
Nephew: Aunt Shana, Uncle J didn’t answer me. He just said he doesn’t know why you aren’t married yet.
Me: Well, sweetie, grown up relationships can be complicated sometimes.
Nephew: Really? Did he ask you to marry him and you said no?
Me: No, he never asked me.
Nephew: Well…do you love him?
Me: Yes.
Nephew: Does he love you?
Me: Yes.
Nephew: Well…it doesn’t sound so complicated to me. It’s simple…just get married already.
Nephew went on to tell J that by the next time he sees us he expects us to be married or for J to provide him with an explanation of why we aren’t married yet. Also…he would like some cousins soon.
Gotta love the kid’s honesty!
I wanted to take a few minutes today to wish a happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there. But I also wanted to honor to very special moms… First, to my mom…you have been an outstanding role model and have given me a wonderful example to follow. It’s because of you that I…
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I started this particular Random Musings Friday post about three Fridays ago. Then I never got to finish it. Because that’s the way life has been going lately. I’m either super busy or totally exhausted. I keep hoping for things to slow down or to win the lottery, but so far neither wish has come…
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I think J has missed me talking about him here…because this week he’s given me such good material that I can’t not write about it. ********** The first conversation happened last Monday when I had to go to CT because we were having the furnace serviced. The girls tend not to like strangers in the…
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Mercury has been in retrograde and it was the Ides of March and those two things combined last week to kick my ass. If it could have gone wrong, it did. It was a mess of stress and frustration and by Friday night I was burned out. I tried to follow my new “no stress”…
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When I was working at my first job out of college, there was a woman in my office who used to cry all the time. She got overwhelmed easily and she’d just start sobbing. J and I worked together back then and we used to think it was ridiculous. We would always point out that there…
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A few weeks ago, I got to take a second road trip to Virginia via Hershey, PA. It was a great trip and I had a great time with the Millers. I also learned a bunch of things. Here are the highlights… It is possible to eat too much chocolate. I never thought it would…
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This year for Lent, my friend Robyn gave up procrastinating…and I seem to have taken it up as though it were my job. I’m a lazy person by nature. I like to do lazy kinds of things…like watch television and play Candy Crush (damn you Candy Crush!). I have a tendency to put off doing…
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So remember last week when I was all “Smiling’s my favorite” and I was being super nice to everyone and it was all sunshine and rainbows over here? Yeah…I tried. Really, I tried to keep the streak alive, but it was a looooooong weekend and a long Monday and I eventually lost my shit. Let…
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