I just got off the phone with my mother and I am laughing hysterically.<\/p>\n
The one thing you need to know about my mother is that she loves to chat. I don’t know if I’d really call it “gossip”, but that’s sorta what it is. Every time I’m on the phone with her I get an earful about so-and-so and such-and-such… all her friends (even those I only barely know)… if it’s news, it must be talked about. She has a very close-knit group of girlfriends and they do a lot together. (When I was a teenager I was the one at home, in bed by 11; my mother was out with her friends having a pajama party – and I’m not exaggerating either.)<\/p>\n
So when I told my mom that I’m pregnant I expected it to be all over the family tree in about 2 days, max. Especially since most of the family already knows about the troubles we were having conceiving (some of them knew because we mentioned it last year when we were there; most of them knew because mom told them)… I expected it to be big news<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Well I come to find out today that mom’s closest sister has been away for two weeks. Mom apparently insists<\/i> that her sister be the first person<\/i> she tells the news to. Therefor she has not told anyone else<\/i>. Not even her very best friend. She’s been sitting on this piece of news for weeks – OMG it’s killing her! She was wailing that there’s a family picnic tomorrow with all her cousins and her sister has to<\/i> come home in the morning so she can tell her first! Or what is she going to say at the picnic??<\/p>\n
I just hung up the phone and started laughing and laughing… imagining my poor mother sitting on this news, refusing to tell a single person before her sister… oh dear. She really must be going crazy! I hope she gets to tell everyone tomorrow or she may explode. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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