MOMents
MOMents - Do We Turn into our Parents?
What I learned from a box of plastic wrap
When we bought our house in 1992, my mother-in-law arrived bearing gifts to stock our new pantry. One item was an industrial sized plastic wrap. By this, I mean the kind that requires two hands to plop on a counter, two hands to tear and could wrap the Tobin Bridge twice. While I thanked her politely, I chafed inside. I prefer the wrap that only requires one hand to hold and the other to tear. I wondered if I would ever use up this wrap and I wondered why she was foisting her ways on me. At the time, my mother-in-law's nest had recently emptied. The youngest of her four children married and moved out and her years of needing large quantities of everything had ended. She was not transitioning easily and still tended to run to B.J.'s for …
Amy Sessler Powell
7:59 pm on Monday, May 28, 2012
Ellen, thanks for writing in and I'm glad this found it's way to you. All the best. -Amy more ›