It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go….when you get your first Brag Sheet tucked neatly in a ♥warming Christmas card….Momma says, she does, that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. So began the Christmas Card letter that was supposed to be an update on the progress of family and friends that you may not have heard from since the previous Yuletide Season.
A few years back Momma claims she got such a letter from a friend of the family, let’s call her Lady Brag-Brag. Now Lady Brag-Brag is a good Christian person but she also is a very proud wife and mother whose intention, in all likelihood, was not to boast and make others feel inferior. She just wanted to share her pride in having an upwardly mobile husband and children. Instead it had a negative effect, which made Momma and Her-Sister-the Queen take stock and think that they were sadly lacking. Where had they gone wrong? Were they blessed or cursed, to be passed by such honors?
At that time in Momma’s life, RIP Daddy was still alive and by her side. However most days were spent visiting their gorgeous but long-suffering niece, Lovie. in her last days at the Palliative Care Unit. Therefore Momma took along the letter to astound Her-Sister-the Queen, (Lovie’s mother) so she could also feel bemused about how their families just did not measure up. Since Momma and Her-Sister-the Queen shared a warped sense of humor, they passed time by spinning off a reply about their own family units that Momma could communicate back to these over achievers.
It seemed that the Lady Brag-Brag’s husband’s business had grown in absolute leaps and bounds in the past year. They had managed to get away on two different holidays in the sun, where they rejuvenated their bodies and souls. It made Momma and Her-Sister-the Queen want to cry out, what about their families’ bodies and souls? In the past year plus, Momma and Her-Sister-the Queen felt blessed just to be able to be by Lovie’s bedside daily, little own thinking of rest or relaxation.
The letter writer’s children absolutely ‘took the cake’….. so there was none left for anyone else. They were in various Universities across Canada, on Honor Rolls, graduating at the top of their class, then getting plum positions, shoved down their throats by a shallow society that heaps favors on only the brightest, the most beautiful and the best. It fair made their heads spin, as Momma and Her-Sister-the Queen recalled how their competitive Aunties had children (their cousins) that were carbon copies, so many years earlier and they were not even related. (Reality Check in ‘Real Time’ – none of their cousins have set the world on fire…at least yet).
It did not stop there. The partners that her children chose were also gifted, graduating from even more prestigious international universities, and being bid on for future positions. Say what? Even Momma and Her-Sister-the Queen, who earnestly believe in the Mystery of the Reality, were baffled about how so much good karma surrounded Lady Brag-Brag’s family. It was their intention to point out to her that just because their paltry lives were not quite on the same path… yet, it did not mean that they couldn’t enjoy what they had.
Maybe as Momma and Her-Sister-the Queen, ruminated, they stretched the truth a wee bit, but only to make a point, you understand. Their response was swift, although cutting, still laced with absolute, abiding reality.
So wait for it, expect it….like the Baby Jesus, it is on the way.
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The Hot Dog Jakita
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The Hot Dog Jakita
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