My mom spent the weekend up here in Waller with me. She met Kevin’s mother and stepfather and saw their 10 acre property where Kevin and I live in the guest house. My daughter Evita was also here.
I think it went really well. We all went out for Italian food. My mom was reunited with my cat Alex. Alex seemed mad at her. Does he think my mom abandoned him? Maybe. Maybe he doesn’t get that he’s not her cat. My mom also met my inlaws’ enormous dog Thomas and their roommate’s cat, Buck. She saw my garden which has a lot of sprouts.
I honestly didn’t think my mom would approve. She’s so critical and judgmental of everything I do. She criticizes everything I do, all my friends, everything I like, etc. Maybe because she’s a widow now, she’s more accepting of me and mellow. She is realizing that I’m all she has.
Kevin drove both my mother home and Evita back to her father on Sunday evening. We dropped off my mom first, then took Evita to her dad. I started expressing that I had a tension headache. Kevin said after we dropped Evita off, we’d go get some BC powder. Evita offered to give me what she calls “free pug therapy”. This means that when I drop her off at her dad’s, she goes and gets one of his three pugs and brings them to the car to visit me. She usually brings Olive. When she brought Olive to the car Sunday evening, Olive started sniffing Kevin because she’s never seen him. We were laughing hysterically because she snort-sniffs.
Later on, my mom sent me a nice text about what a nice weekend she had and she’s so glad to see where I live and meet the family.
Your mom and mine must have gone to the same school of criticizing all her daughter does, so that meet and greet was risky. Glad it all worked out.
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