A "No Wire Hangers" Mother's Day

So the day after Ann's grad party, I get in the car and head down to CC. I met up with Mom and Bruce in Port A, where the boat is. Mom keeps telling me that she doesn't really have anything planned for mother's day and since I was just down the previous weekend for her trip to the hospital, it wasn't like I would be neglecting my daughterly duties if I didn't come down for a one-day trip. But I came anyway, mostly because I thought I may get a chance to sail (gotta get ready for the BVI trip), but partly because they have been a little down lately with both illnesses and all. Plus, I wanted to see the family.


On my way down, I called my Gma Chris (dad's mom) and found out that she was in CC with my Aunt Valarie (her daughter) and that my dad was there as well. So, after I visited with my maternal familia I would head over to the paternal side.

When I got to the boat, mom was making mimosas whilst I changed into my beach wear. We sat up top and had a few as Uncle Mark and soon to be Aunt Laura showed up, shortly followed by Gma Becky as she is called by my Uncle's son, since she is now 'of age' to be a grandmother. When I was born she was not--and was thusly called 'mamamma' (I know, so much better, right? Kinda sounds like moomoo).

But that is how it is with my family, we make fun of each other. The more we tear you down the better you'll be right? Just kidding. But we do poke fun. For instance, I am made fun of for my weight and all the weird ass guys I date, Brit is made fun of because she worked at Hooters and can be a bit psycho, mom is made fun of because she had babies too young and is married to an old man, and Uncle Mark is made fun of because he sits when he pees. Now in his defense--he is like 6ft something and aiming into a pot that far down can be cumbersome, I would assume, and am glad that he has found a sanitary way of urinating.

So when Uncle Mark and Laura arrived we set into our usual banter of speaking with one another and someone brought up the old issues again. So, at the appropriate time in the conversation, the time where the joke would be the most funny, I mentioned my Uncle's 'dirty little secret'. Well, I guess it would be his clean secret, but I digress. Out of nowhere, the lioness pounces. Apparently that is a sore subject for Uncle Mark because his wife to be jumped to his defense and over agressively shouts at me "When you get married...You're gonna FUCKING wish that your man pees sitting down". It really was a mommie dearest kinda moment, but I could see she was really passionate about it and the jokes that could have developed out of that moment would have been emmy worthy stuff, but would not help her to feel 'a part of the family'. So I was patient with her and did not continue with the pee pee talk. Hope she gets it soon though, cuz I don't tip toe much.

We followed that up with a cool little happening. A boat was coming into the docks and lost its engine power. It is really hard to dock a boat at a slip without a motor. So mom, Uncle Mark and I race, o.k. walked leisurely, over to the motorless ship's slip and helped them to tie up without too much damage to their boat or the dock.

After we ate, we went shopping. It is funny learning the idiosyncracise of other families. For instance, when I was growing up, I was placed in the center of a flatbed trailer that was decorated in "The Little Mermaid" style, dressed in an Ursula costume and paraded down Ocean Drive in CC waiving at children who hissed and shouted at me because I was the villain of the film, all for fun. Laura's family had her strip down in department stores and try on clothes where they were hung on the racks. Interesting. I was able to try my clothes on without having to wait for the dressing room as a result, and that was a plus because I HATE waiting for dressing rooms. I found a couple of cute cover ups and shirts for the islands on our trip shopping. A good time was had by all, except maybe Uncle Mark who volunteered to be our chauffer and played on his IPOD the whole time.

Once back at the boat, I packed up and headed out. I had another shin dig to go to after all and I wanted to be back in SA at a decent hour. It was so great seeing my Gma Chris, Aunt Valarie, Uncle Eddie, and cousins Trey, Evan, and Mary. It was cool seeing all of Uncle Eddie's family again, too. After the divorce, we don't really go around them as much. No real reason, just don't get around to it.

It is so crazy to see the cousins all grown up. I had moved to SA by the time Mary became old enough to recognize people so I don't have as close a connection with her as I do the boys. Evan is a trip, man. He spent most of the time texting some chicks and he has gotten so tall--and thin! I always thought he'd be a bit chubbie. And then there is my baby boy, Trey. I baby sat for Aunt Valarie a lot when he was a baby. I just see how tall he is, the 5 o'clock shadow, and the crazy myspace page and remember wiping the poop off of his butt. *tear* They grow up so fast don't they?

Over all a great day filled with lots of catching up. It was great to see dad! Hope your M-day was great too!