The crazy neighbor..../ Thanks mom!
Today I had an A-HA moment....
Growing up in Texas we had a crazy neighbor "This is Martha* from next door"...(she said, EVERY TIME she called to rat us out to our parents )
She was the stuff legends are made of, as far as NUTTY mothers go.
She did some far out things like: vacuuming her daughters hair instead of washing it...(I SWEAR...ask my mom.) Her daughter, who I was friends with at the time, loved her long hair... so when Mrs. "Martha *from Next Door".... ran out of ideas for punishments... she decided every time her daughter was bad, she would cut an inch off of her hair. By the end of the summer, poor little Jenny* with the long beautiful locks, looked like RAMONA the PEST...
But was most shocking , was at how stressed out she would get.... she would just go BONKERS... & would often run into the house crying.... It was not unusual to find her crying about something or other... or trying to find a babysitter for their DOG. (hello?)
Today, after about an hour of trying to get both kids in the car, to get to the hospital.... I realized my car keys were missing.... Where the &%#¤? are my keys?.... and out of my mouth came this WHINNNEEE... & I could feel the tears about to come.... WHERE ARE MY KEYS?
I threatened the kids with an inch of their life to stay put as I ran into the house to try to find the keys..... That is when it hit me....
I have become the "CRAZY NEIGHBOR".... & all of a sudden she didn't seem so crazy anymore...
I had figured out what was wrong with her.... Martha* had 2 kids that were making her NUTS..... & it felt like I solved the great puzzle.... If Ol' Martha* was nutty from having 2 kids... My gosh... my poor mother.... she had FOUR of us... 3 of which were PRETTTTY Bad. (not THAT bad...but bad enough to make a mother lose her mind!)
I get irritated/stressed with all of the normal teasing between my 9 & 3 year old... aside from both of them talking WAY tooo much... they are pretty good kids... and are nowhere NEAR as bad as my sister, brother & I were..... growing up,there were a lot of ruined things...broken antiques..Elvis's Souvenir program my brother colored all of his teeth in..(mom cried about that) & lots of trips to the emergency room with us...
So I would like to take a moment to thank dear DiAnn... for not being the "crazy neighbor lady" & for not packing her bags & running away in the middle of night, to a warm Greek island. (this is my current fantasy) because being in your shoes now... -2 I would totally understand if you had...
*** names have been changed... cause my dad told me to.
Growing up in Texas we had a crazy neighbor "This is Martha* from next door"...(she said, EVERY TIME she called to rat us out to our parents )
She was the stuff legends are made of, as far as NUTTY mothers go.
She did some far out things like: vacuuming her daughters hair instead of washing it...(I SWEAR...ask my mom.) Her daughter, who I was friends with at the time, loved her long hair... so when Mrs. "Martha *from Next Door".... ran out of ideas for punishments... she decided every time her daughter was bad, she would cut an inch off of her hair. By the end of the summer, poor little Jenny* with the long beautiful locks, looked like RAMONA the PEST...
But was most shocking , was at how stressed out she would get.... she would just go BONKERS... & would often run into the house crying.... It was not unusual to find her crying about something or other... or trying to find a babysitter for their DOG. (hello?)
Today, after about an hour of trying to get both kids in the car, to get to the hospital.... I realized my car keys were missing.... Where the &%#¤? are my keys?.... and out of my mouth came this WHINNNEEE... & I could feel the tears about to come.... WHERE ARE MY KEYS?
I threatened the kids with an inch of their life to stay put as I ran into the house to try to find the keys..... That is when it hit me....
I have become the "CRAZY NEIGHBOR".... & all of a sudden she didn't seem so crazy anymore...
I had figured out what was wrong with her.... Martha* had 2 kids that were making her NUTS..... & it felt like I solved the great puzzle.... If Ol' Martha* was nutty from having 2 kids... My gosh... my poor mother.... she had FOUR of us... 3 of which were PRETTTTY Bad. (not THAT bad...but bad enough to make a mother lose her mind!)
I get irritated/stressed with all of the normal teasing between my 9 & 3 year old... aside from both of them talking WAY tooo much... they are pretty good kids... and are nowhere NEAR as bad as my sister, brother & I were..... growing up,there were a lot of ruined things...broken antiques..Elvis's Souvenir program my brother colored all of his teeth in..(mom cried about that) & lots of trips to the emergency room with us...
So I would like to take a moment to thank dear DiAnn... for not being the "crazy neighbor lady" & for not packing her bags & running away in the middle of night, to a warm Greek island. (this is my current fantasy) because being in your shoes now... -2 I would totally understand if you had...
*** names have been changed... cause my dad told me to.
Comments
Kelly
Vacuuming hair... crazy!
At the time it didn't seem quite as crazy. At least most of the time.
When I see young families now I am glad I am not there. But we managed to survive. Well mostly. And you all will too.
But then I remember that I'm the youngest person on my block by far, and they all had kids once, so they probably went through this too.
PS. Thanks for the Mexico ? We have a condo in a small port town that we can't live without. We don't get down here much since we're in Nevada, bummer, so we try and soak it up as much as we can!
I had four of them . My daughter also has four kids and I think she now has a better understanding of me these days :-)
BTW...did you find the keys and where were they?
Great post and AHA moment!!
The part about Ramona or that you got busted!!!!
Just another hysterical Tressa story to tell everyone!
What is our countdown??