I started writing here and hubby came in and changed my whole train of thought… Some days I don’t get dressed as I don’t want to do anything but be around the house whether I am on the computer, reading a book or crocheting.. I have just taken that back up recently.. I am working on simple presents for holidays.. I may get them done and I may not.. I am going in two directions I have picked up simple gifts as well so that I can take them back if I need to… or want to.. I have been asking my Mom for help and have not cringed when she offers with out me asking… This has been our problem in the past to much of the wrong kind of what she calls help, and I would call butting in…(or what they might(family)call corrective criticism
Help is a strange word it can be what it is help or it can be put in a tone of voice as Criticism… This is the kind of help I have always gotten from all my relatives mostly the older ones… and it was passed down to my parents so this is what I knew as a child and passed it down at my kids.. Luckily they did not pass it on down… The cycle was broken some how… My husband cringes when I talk back at my mother instead of to her… But this is how I was raised.. its hard to brake the cycle.. I did not live by my Mother for the first 10 yrs of my present marriage and when my Mother came to live with us after my step father died, all this old stuff came right back into my life… Its hard on him and he is great and lets us get it out… then he cringes…
So my asking for help from my Mother is strange for me..
I read alot.. we just had family here this weekend and it was great.. when they come they go into my store and pick out books that they want to take home.. So I have taken a few books off my store … Its fun to talk over series that we both like.. I have to mention to her about Virgin River by Rybon Carr its my favorite lately… and maybe because it good and maybe because she gives us so many to read in one year… That does not mean I love Cedar Cove by Debbie Macomber any less… You can buy both these authors and many other at www.readerwave.ecrater.com
Tags: books, chrocheting, reading