The other week when I was still trying to shake myself out of a funk, I told my husband I was going to skip Mothers day and not go to any of the family lunches.
Some years my family does a casual barbecue for Mothers day, but some years we're all just too busy or Mum just wants a quiet weekend so those years we don't do anything and I usually just put a card in the post.
My husband's family do a big get together for most celebrations. It's not just lunch with his mum, it's lunch with his mum and siblings, grandparents, aunt and uncle, cousins and their kids. And I'm just not up to a huge family get together just yet. Don't get me wrong, I have snapped out of my funk for the most part.
As it worked out, my family is getting together on Sunday so today we drove up to Brisbane and saw my husband's mum for a quiet lunch. It was perfect! We got a chance to catch up with her, but to also avoid the big family gathering. I'd baked some scones and some brownies, and my mother in law had put together a platter of salad and cold meat.
My husband's siblings weren't home which surprised me (they're both in their early-mid twenties and have both recently moved back home. First one just after Christmas and now the other in the last two months) but it was nice just to spend some time with my mother in law. We saw her at Easter but that was with the whole family and it's hard to catch up with everyone around, so it's been ages since we just sat around and talked.
My husband and his mum are so alike, they're both quiet and reserved but they have so much in common. The same taste in tv, movies and books, it's funny to watch them discuss them, for quiet people they both get so animated!
My mother in law has been knitting a lot lately, it started with the cousin's new baby and now a friend of my sister in law is having a baby so she's been knitting an outfit and blanket set for the baby shower my sister in law is hosting.
My grandmother did a lot of knitting, she used to make knitted scarecrows for every new baby. Sometimes she'd make a clown but mostly it was a bright rainbow coloured scarecrow. When I saw the patterns she was using they looked just like the style that my grandma used, and my mother in law said she'd seen the patterns for the clowns but not the scarecrow. A quick google search showed me that the scarecrow pattern is still being published too! I'm going to look for it next time I'm at the large craft store.
Tomorrow we're off to my parents house. It'll just be us, my parents, my brother and my sister in law. I'm not sure what we're doing in the way of food, I'm bringing a herb and cheese bread plus a black forest cheesecake for dessert.
I feel a little bit bad that we've skipped the big get together with my husbands extended family. But this truly did work out for the best.
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