Is this some sick sort of titty joke?
I can tell you're a good son, Ogged. Like most successful men, you probably call your mother daily.
Actually, this post just inspired me to call my Mom, and it turns out she was out having Mother's Day drinks with *another* mother whose sons lived far away. She told me I had to call back in a few hours because she didn't want to ignore her friend!
I don't know how I feel about this.
Mq, that's awesome.
And thanks, Ogged. Do let me know what your mom did to get you to call her every day, so that I can make sure and do the same.
She freaks out and assumes I'm dead if she doesn't hear from me. Can you hack that? You have to put in the work to get results, B.
Crap. I was hoping it was some true love thing. Guess I'll have to resign myself to obligatory monthly phone calls like Labs bothers with.
7: That must make for awesome April Fool's opportunities.
Oh stop. I call weekly. Of course, my mother insisted on sensible haircuts.
She freaks out and assumes I'm dead if she doesn't hear from me.
For example, my grandma starts calling my aunts and uncles - and even grandchildren! - when my mom fails to answer the callwaiting.
"Heebie! Heebie! This is your grandmother! I tried to call your mother, and the phone rang and rang!"
"She's probably on the other line, grandma."
"But the answering machine didn't pick up!"
"Probably on the other line."
"Have you talked to her recently? You'd better call her, Heebie."
Bring, bring
"Mom? You're there? I'm so grateful you're not Grandma."
"Thanks, Heebie."
"Call Grandma. She's freaking out."
Oh, you're all better children than I am. I really dread calling my mom.
Ah, B, heed 11. Having a crazy grandma will make PK doubly appreciate sane Mom.
To be sincere: the men I've known with close relationships with their mothers are, most notably, able to talk to them about anything.
Now, this is not rocket science.
However. I'm talking about messages like: Mom, this woman I've just been seeing and semi-living with for 3 months just fucked off and disappeared suddenly for 2 days. I finally found her and she says she's fallen in love with someone else, and I am freaking out. Etc.
Manage to make a relationship with your son wherein he will want to talk to you, his mother, about something like this, and you've got it made.
Nothin' to hide, in other words.
So far PK loves my mom. One of the things I've learned as an adult is that good parents (like my dad, for all his flaws) keep their issues with their own parents to themselves. As a result, though, the kids idolize their grandparents, which probably makes the parents gnash their teeth.
My mom, on the other hand, didn't even go to her mother's funeral.
My mom once told me that she tries to keep in mind the advice: "Keep your mouth shut and your door open."
15 - I adore my grandma. I have the smoothest relationship with her of anyone, probably. But as an adult, I appreciate deeply that growing up under grandma would have been hell, and Mom did an amazing job not reproducing those features in her own family.
It's not all sweetness and light with my mom. We've worked out, over the years, things she is not allowed to bring up or opine upon--mostly she respects the boundaries, and we mostly get along.
I had to leave the country and not call my family for six months to finally set some boundaries for my mom, but these days we get along great. Happy Moms' Day, mom. (It's pretty unlikely that she reads Unfogged, so I left her a message too).
Also, MLB is doing a Mothers' Day commemoration today, with most of the players using pink Louisville Sluggers and wearing pink armbands for breast cancer awareness. It's kind of sweet.
Also, MLB is doing a Mothers' Day commemoration today, with most of the players using pink Louisville Sluggers and wearing pink armbands for breast cancer awareness. It's kind of sweet.
Oh yeah, baseball's totally a sport.
15, 16:
One of the things I've learned as an adult is that good parents (like my dad, for all his flaws) keep their issues with their own parents to themselves.
Keep your mouth shut and your door open.
mm, I'm not sure about all this.
The dictum "If you ignore it, it will go away" can do a great deal of damage.
I realize that's not quite what's being said. And certainly, doling out reservations and criticism of the grandparents to mere children wouldn't be a good idea.
Once the kids become nascent grown-ups, however, being kept in the dark about family history is not necessarily a great idea.
I realize that's not quite what's being said.
Yes, it's not.
Off topic, but I love Paul from Powerline's lacrosse coverage:
Duke endured a two hour rain delay in this match, but that's not much of a wait compared to the lose of virtually an entire season due to bogus rape allegation.
My grandmother never gave me anything-- she was too busy being raped by Cossacks.
Hey Tim, do you kiss your mother with that cynicism?
Basketball players send their moms Mothers' Day cards from jail.
Teachers send their moms Mother's Day cards with class.
Divers send their moms Mother's Day cards deeper.
Brick layers send their mom's Mother's Day cards harder.
*heavy breathing*
Why, Fontana?
Beckett is trying to establish how much of a mother he is today.
...and then mother's day took a turn for the weird...
Looks like Beckett's not going to tie the Babe this year.
My wife pointed out that -- nothing against breast cancer research -- there are probably other women's health issues that more urgently need awareness raised on Mother's Day. Like heart disease, for example.
Now, Labs, moms get to have sex too.
38: Indeed, sex is a vital part of the training to be a mom. I'm told.
There's two kinds of mothers, I'm told.
CharleyCarp! mrh! Holy shit! w00t!!1!
Dude, Jesus, that was awesome. What in the hell was Perlozzo thinking in the ninth?
So, as the top of the ninth ends, I look at tclock, and see I really have to be getting home. You know, it being Mothers Day and all (and there being a feeling that a husband is supposed to make as big a fuss as kids). It's looking pretty hopeless anyway. Crisp gets on and Papi doubles him home, so it's not gioing to be a humiliation, anyway.
So I switch off the computer, and head off to the subway.
Holy shit!
The lesson here is clear: watch the game, and let the missus wait.
The wife says no, that the lesson is that there's a reason God created MLB TV's archives.
For today, in honor of motherhood, this will suffice.
I nearly took my mom to a baseball game today, but she'd had enough sun from the botantical gardens yesterday: we went to the Met instead. But she loves baseball.
I love my mother dearly...from a distance.
Actually, I see her every couple of days and try to speak with her virtually every day.
I am terrified of what happened to my friend. Her dad died alone in his house on a Thursday. It took a week before someone decided to check on him.
Our house was on a Mother's Day house tour today, so we had tremendous stress getting her.
My kids gave my gf "Step-Hottie Day" cards. They love her with affection and attachment bordering on obsessive.
Step-Hottie
If that's really how your kids refer to your girlfriend that's simultaneously awesome and kinda creepy. Nicely done.
And the Yankees lose, so it's a good day for moms and a good day for baseball. Now I crave apple pie.
50: My son kept asking whether to refer to her as a step-mom. She thought it sounded way to old, so he said "how about Step-hottie?"
My family is weird. My brother's wife is known as "the Russian Vixen."
My mom would have enjoyed watching the Yankees lose. I was going to take her to Shea, though, if she'd been interested and the Mets were playing. Someday I'd like to show her how New Yorkers boo.
It was a good day to be at Shea, as long as you weren't a Brewers fan. Hey, did you like Orfeo?
I liked the music, I liked the staging, but I was in a shite mood (because of the roommate thing) and found fault with the counter-tenor and the choreography.
Counter-tenors have a tough row to hoe: they really don't have quite the power that the castrati had or that the mezzos have. And I had forgotten to steel myself against my prejudices about Mark Morris's choreography and found myself gradually rediscovering all the things that had annoyed me before. It's a short opera, so I didn't quite have time to get over those annoyances after I'd rediscovered them.
It's too bad my mom was too pooped for a Mets game. It really would have been fun to watch her be shocked at the booing.
(I've got to go away now.)
There's two kinds of mothers, I'm told.
Those with loaded guns and those who dig?
re: 55
I like the sound counter-tenors make, but I've heard similar complaints about their power in live performance from other people (I've never seen a counter-tenor sing live myself). Orfeo is a great opera, though (and I say this as someone who doesn't really like opera much).
I suspect counter-tenor singing is best suited to chamber music settings; on lute songs, or similar material.
I have a friend who's a counter-tenor, and yeah, better in the smaller setting.