Today I wanted to go swimming. This became difficult when Sharon phoned just as I was leaving asking me to take Sam to West Edmonton mall, but I told her I had made my plans for the day. At first, I felt like I was being selfish, but then I remembered someone posing about how airlines tell parents to put on their own oxygen masks first, because if you pass out, you cant help your kid anyway. So today, I put on my own mask first.
putting on my own mask first
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Self Care
Parental self care is not a thing that most parents really practice as much as they should. Good on you :)
-Piper
I thought LA had big malls??
That place is a few ZIP codes!
its easier to ask 'what does it NOT have...LOL
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yeah, and I cant walk so far anymore
but I did borrow the mall for a story
LA?
I thought LA was just strip malls and convenience stores :D
At least there's variety out there, around Boston it's the same darn stores in the malls regardless of who owns them. We have to go 40-50 miles out to get a different variety at the outlet complexes in Wrentham and Rockingham....Then again, traveling 40 miles to a mall isn't out of the ordinary for you folks so we can't complain ;)
I'm told STFU more times in a day than most people get told in a lifetime
It's not a good practice
It's not a good practice to let the people in your life feel like you don't have a life and can drop everything to do what they want at a moments notice. Healthy relationships require boundaries. At the very least she should have called to see if you were available to take her to the mall. To just show up is not good. If she had been just a little later, you wouldn't even have been there.
I vote with you on this one.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
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