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I am an East Coast expatriate hiding out in the Midwest...

I am an urban gal living in the suburbs and occasionally hiding in the country

I am a yoga practitioner, fitness enthusiast, believer in the mind-body-spirit connection...

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I am educated in the formal sense but I gain insight through everyday living...

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    Monday, January 03, 2005
    Unusual gift

    Of all of the gifts I received over the holidays...

    ...the most puzzling would have to be the carefully bubble-wrapped package mailed to my husband and me from my mother-in-law.

    She sent us a framed photographic portrait of HERSELF. In an appliqued and beaded sweater, no less.

    Now, I could see if it was for my daughter or something, but she sent it to US!  It now resides in the depths of my china cabinet, ready to be pulled out and displayed when she visits.

    I know it sounds absurd but you can't make this stuff up!

    Posted at 11:18 am by brandy101

    mrs.diamond
    January 14, 2005   10:50 PM PST
     
    I always send out pictures to relatives of our family. what's wrong with that?
    Dreama
    January 8, 2005   02:09 AM PST
     
    oh geez, just what everyone wants, a pic of their MIL, I have visions of her showing up someday and you running around trying to remember where you hid it, lol.
    BlueSkelton
    January 7, 2005   04:08 PM PST
     
    That Sweater Sounds pretty cool actually
    chrysalis
    January 4, 2005   02:04 PM PST
     
    Let's see ... she's trying to manipulate you by eliciting an emotional response in you. Guilt, perhaps. She wants you to feel guilty about not having her there personally. Or ... mon Dieu, could it be: Jealousy? Could she be trying to make you jealous of her swell, cat's-meow sweater?
    scott
    January 4, 2005   04:32 AM PST
     
    I could easily fill pages with weird mother stories.
    Right now, she wants us to go to her town for a holiday rather than the states...
    Michelle
    January 3, 2005   05:27 PM PST
     
    I am trying really hard to find a positive spin on this one. Perhaps she is feeling mortal and wants to make sure she leaves a bit of herself for you? OK OK a stretch but I said I was trying. I think you should mail one to her next year.
    brandy101
    January 3, 2005   03:54 PM PST
     
    ok, not just a beaded sweater but one with BEADED PINK FLAMINGO's and PALM TRESS on it!!!!!!!!! (She is a Florida retiree, natch.)
    chrysalis
    January 3, 2005   01:29 PM PST
     
    We should all give elaborately-framed portraits of ourselves enshrouded in similar Vegas-like good taste. The monster-in-law may be on to something here.
    gak
    January 3, 2005   11:59 AM PST
     
    LOL!!!!!! i wish you could kind of blur her face and post it for all to see. a beaded sweater??? OMG
    SOSwryter
    January 3, 2005   11:51 AM PST
     
    And you're not going to put it up on a nightstand in your bedroom? Maybe you'll be lucky and for your birthday get a doppelganger of that sweater. Sweet.

    sos
    RaeJane
    January 3, 2005   11:44 AM PST
     
    did you look behind the picture for money?

    lol

    That's funny.

     

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