4 Years Too Soon

We went to Georgetown two weekends ago and spent the night at my mother's. It is the first time in four years that I've spent the night at her house. You see, we used to live in Temple which is only 45min away from there. The three years we lived there, there was no need to spend the night ~ I could just drive on home. We moved to Arlington a year ago and still haven't felt the need to go see her. (We've seen her~ oh, have we've seen her ~ but hadn't gone to her house).

This is the deal: (There are many deals were she is concerned, but we'll focus on this one for now)...I could care less about her new house with her 3rd husband.

How did she get three husbands??

Lets see...
1. She married my abusive, violent, alcoholic, biological father and had my sister and me. Susan and I are 6yrs apart and they divorced when I was two. My father was found dead in his trailer two years ago (oh... another post...).

2. She married Ray, my father's best friend, when I was three. He raised us along with his sons, Jay, Michael and Brian (the boys lived w/their mom ~ Brian lived w/us in high school). They were married 24yrs until he passed away at 59 (after being in a nursing home for 8mths) in 2004. Ray was the only father I ever knew and was in every way, "my dad".

3. 6mths after my dad died, she met Earnie in grief counseling. His wife had died two weeks before and they've been together ever since. Can you say, co-dependent??? They secretly married six months later and then told us two months after that. I was living 45min from her and had NO IDEA she had been married for two months. Well, nor did she know I was pregnant w/Paige ~ that's what happens when we don't speak for months at a time...

When my dad was dying she busied herself with building a new home for herself. She lived there all of two years before she and Earnie moved into their new house together.

See...two houses + new husband in two years = no interest!

My brother, Brian, his wife Jen, his baby Caitlin (14mths) were moving to SA and flew in to stay at my mom's for a couple of days until they moved into their new house. That is the only reason we made the trip to Georgetown. Brian and family were the buffer! I'm working on my boundaries where my mom is concerned and the less I'm around her, the better. So, it was one night with three little ones, 6 adults and a dog running around. But, when it was time to leave, I couldn't get out fast enough...

I have to say...4 years too soon...

It is what it is...

Now for some pics:

Rockin' sisters rockin' those boots (oh, and Caitlin too)

me and Caitlin ~ my 1st niece!