Mom's birthday....

[celtic cowboy]

Well I thought I would let you all know that last week was my mom's 65th birthday. You all know about "The Great Thanksgiving Kilt/Pants Choice of 2008". Well this time Mom came to me and asked in a very nice way if I would please wear pants to her dinner. Well as much as I hated it, I folded. Mom was very happy, and I told her 65 more years and I will do it again
Just had to share it with you all. This just makes me love my kilts even more, I felt so out of place.

[Standard]

Well done lad.

[CDNSushi]

Well played, sir. I think that THIS time, the key phrase was: asked in a very nice way. That goes a long ways in anybody's books.

[Phogfan86]

Well played, sir. I think that THIS time, the key phrase was: asked in a very nice way. That goes a long ways in anybody's books.

True dat. No drama, just a polite request. Sounds like you've both decided to meet each other halfway -- at least for the time being.

[Spartan]

Progress! It was probably a great birthday present to her.

[BroosterB1]

Maybe at your birthday you could ask her to wear a family tartan. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

[RockyR]

Maybe at your birthday you could ask her to wear a family tartan. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

I agree with the above... OR ask her "for my birthday, could I ask that all the women wear dresses or skirts? This 'women wearing pants craze' has just gone too far."

I know... let sleeping dogs lie...

[george7]

Good mothers will be given their way. Bad mothers will take it. I hope her birthday was great and good on you for doing as your mother asked.

[sathor]

Well I thought I would let you all know that last week was my mom's 65th birthday. You all know about "The Great Thanksgiving Kilt/Pants Choice of 2008". Well this time Mom came to me and asked in a very nice way if I would please wear pants to her dinner. Well as much as I hated it, I folded. Mom was very happy, and I told her 65 more years and I will do it again
Just had to share it with you all. This just makes me love my kilts even more, I felt so out of place.

My mom (of the same ilk I think) had my birthday written on the wrong day on the calendar. Saw it today, and asked who's birthday, and she said she knew it was either the day before or the day after hers. She picked wrong. She turns 50.

[BroosterB1]

My mom (of the same ilk I think) had my birthday written on the wrong day on the calendar. Saw it today, and asked who's birthday, and she said she knew it was either the day before or the day after hers. She picked wrong. She turns 50.

Ok, my mom's birthday is the day before mine, the 16th, mine the 17th. I am 50, she is 80. For you, this has got to sting, but and a big but here, if at one time in your life you are distracted, the age of 50 can be one. Girls(your mom, she was once a girl), are going through the "change", us guys are going through the MLC or mid life crises. Neither which is real pleasent. Not an excuss, but an explanation. As kids we wonder *** our parents are thinking, but as adults we wonder how the heck they got through this, and how will we.

My advice is to give them (both mom and dad) their room. Don't take too much of anything, one way or another. Heck, if they call you the wrong name, it's not because they have forgotten you, but because they are so wrapped up in their "deal" that they have problems coming up for air.

The next few years can be wonderful, but, as you get older so do they. As you move into the "prime" of life they move out of it, and that can be hard to take. For both of you, the thing is; for a while you can see eye to eye, do so, before the reality of elder age sets in.

For now, enjoy what they can give you, and what you can give them. Ignore their prejudices, and love them as best you can.

God bless and keep you.