Sunday, January 13, 2013

Family intervention

During their Christmas holidays, our sons and families helped us move from a large apartment to a smaller one next door.  In the last ten years, we have moved a lot, and needing their help made me anxious.

Anyway, they helped several hours one day, and when they could see that we were going to need more help, returned for a few hours the next day.  They worked hard, and we couldn't have done it without them.

Between these two moving days, I lay awake and obsessed that perhaps they were planning an intervention on us as if we were a couple of drunks.  (There's more than one way to be a drunk).
I imagined it to go something like this:

Alpha male son:  "Sit down, we have something we want to say to you."

Baby son:  "This has gone on way too long."

Nasty-minded son:  "That's what she said."

Alpha male son:  "This moving has got to stop.  It's not responsible.

Baby son: "You've moved six times since 2005.  Twice this year alone.

Nasty-minded son:  Your life time moving average is every year and a half.

Me.  We lived ten years in the Provo house and ten years on Second Avenue.

Nasty-minded son:  You rented the Second Avenue house two and a half years to go live in Bracys house.

Alpha male son:  You lived in that condo on Kennedy Drive a year and a half and sold it.

Me:  I really miss the bubble.

Tom:  We were going to NYC and live there forever.

Alpha male son:  But you only lasted two years.

Me:  I feel like such a failure.

Tom:  Your mother was crippled.

Alpha male son:  That's no excuse.

Baby son:  We should take a jello break.  Mom, do you want the red jello or the green jello?

Nasty-minded son:  No, let's make chocolate chip cookies.  I have it down to a science.

Baby son:  Yeah, you set the cookie sheet on a baking pan so the bottoms don't burn."

Nasty-minded son:  Take them out when they're still white.  They stay soft that way.

Alpha male son:  You guys are dufeses.  Try and stay with the agenda.

Me to Baby son:  Do your chicken walk.  That always makes me laugh.  Have you guys seen him do    the chicken walk?

Tom:  You wanna see my chicken walk, huh?  I can make my chicken walk.

All:  No!


LOVE YOU, GUYS!














4 comments:

  1. We all miss the bubble.

    Moving is your prerogative. Moving=Living. Enjoy it all you can!

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  2. Louise, I just bought the house on Big Tancook Island, Nova Scotia.

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  3. Yes yes Tom well done. And in three months you can have Canadian Health Care.

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  4. Tell all the boys that we have you beat as to moves...and I'm still contemplating. Is your old apartment available?

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