Postby lucylee » Wed May 09, 2018 8:13 pm
Good advice I have received…
My dmom always has said,
“If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all,” and has tried her best to convince me that
“You don’t HAVE to tell EVERYTHING you know.” (Not because she encourages me to lie by omission, but because she knows that sometimes I feel it necessary to tell things that will just cause unnecessary concern on the part of dh, ds, etc.)
Dmom also says, “Sometimes what we think is the worst thing that could possibly happen, turns out to be the best thing that could have happened.”
My maternal grandmother used to tell me constantly that “Pretty is as pretty does.”
My paternal grandmother always said someone (most likely my dgfather) “could get glad in the same britches he got mad in.”
Dmom’s advice above is similar to some of my very favorite advice, given here and credited to Harriet’s dmom: “Just because somebody needs to hear something, that doesn’t mean you have to be the one to tell them.”
I love the one about “not my circus, not my monkeys,” too, Twins!
Oh! And how could I forget a phrase of my dmil’s that I will always have in my mind:
“What you want isn’t always what’s best for you.”
I definitely think of my dmom as the woman described in Proverbs 31… and as Ellen O’Hara, as described in Gone with the Wind.
Elizabeth, I am so glad to hear you do not have celiac! And I LOVE the advice you received from Cathy re: what to tell the x! I don’t know if I can stand waiting to hear what his response is. Please do tell him!
LadyM (((BIG HUGS))) – you DEFINITELY had to eat when you did. Don’t have any second thoughts about that!
(((HUGS))) for blessed’s ddog
And for (((Kathryn))) with the flat tire trouble! But OOOHHH!!! How exciting re: dd's phone call!!!
I think Lovely is a lovely name for a pet cricket…
So, we skipped church too. I wonder if dgs was supposed to be doing something for ddil in his class tonight? He had a card from school to give her, so if he’s a week late with whatever from church, that will be okay, I guess. We plan to go to church at my dmom’s church Sunday. DH said, “I just don’t think she’s going to make it, and then what are we going to do? We will have already missed our own service…” I said, “Well, if that’s the case, we’ll just go have brunch somewhere, and if dbro wants to join us, he can come too.”
Tomorrow is another day.