So Bev wants to know if my mother-in-law reads my blog.
To which I say: haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahaha.
Or in other words: no.
But I will say this: I would love it if Martha AND Mama would read. Martha would get a HUGE charge out of it, because “Those people who read? They’re from WHERE? Oh my word. Well oh my goodness. That is MORE FUN. And your real-life friends read, too? Well, you know that I think Merritt is perfectly beautiful, perfectly BEAUTIFUL, and well, the rest of your friends are, too – I don’t think I’ve ever seen prettier girls.â€
So I think that if Martha were to read the blog, she would love it – ESPECIALLY the parts about her. Even though she’s in her mid-70s, there’s a part of her that’s most definitely a teenager, and what would REALLY bother her, I think, is if I didn’t mention her at all, or if I didn’t know her well enough to recognize how funny her personality is. Because here’s one thing I know: some mothers-in-law just tolerate the women their sons marry. But my mother-in-law really does love me like I’m one of her own.
Based on all that, I know that she would get a HUGE kick out of this blog thing if she had, you know, a computer. And more than anything, she would love that y’all get such a kick out of her. THAT would tickle her to no end.
(Sidenote: our favorite Martha expression ever? The time she was explaining to D. and me how she had to drive through a terrible storm, and she said, “The weather was just horrible! Horrible! Just pouring! And it was such a WET rain! A WET rain!”)
Anyway, odds are that she’ll never read the blog. Because Martha and my mama? NOT exactly the most techno-savvy creatures on the planet, I’m sad to say.
I know I’ve mentioned this little anecdote before, so I won’t repeat the whole thing, but please remember that when I mentioned to my mama that D. and my brother-in-law B. were playing video games together while sitting in separate cities, her reply was, “What? You don’t mean it. They’re in separate cities and playing the same video game together? And I can’t even turn on the email!â€
(By the way, Mama loves to tell me that people have sent her emails, and what she means by that is that someone has emailed Daddy, and he has printed it out for her and given her a copy, but she loves – LOVES – using the terminology. Makes her feel all hip and cute, I think.)
And while Martha is smart as a whip, technology isn’t necessarily her strong suit, seeing as how she calls D. when her power goes out because she still doesn’t understand how to set the time on her VCR. Or change the time on the clock in her car. Or reset the odometer. So while I think she would get COMPLETELY hooked on email and blogging, I think the first Blogger outage or computer virus or email attachment might send her straight over the technology edge, straight into an abyss of computer frustration. She’d pull her hair out. And you know, since you can only get in with Betty at the beauty parlor on Fridays, it would hardly be worth it.
Truth be told, I don’t think Martha even knows about my blog. I’m not sure she even knows what a “blog†is. Think I should print out a few pages and take them to her this afternoon?
Might be fun….
I was just thinking that on your last sentence. You should seriously print out a page or two- okay in your case a page or twenty and let her at em’! That would be great fun!
Your family sounds like mine…not exactly techno-savy!
My mom knows how to turn on the email: you click “forward” and “select all addresses” and then click “send”. I don’t think she reads my blog, though. I did send her a link to the entry I posted about her. She was pleased.
You absolutely should print out several pages for her. She’s almost famous. Tens of people have read about her. :-)
Oh, yeah, print it out for her to read. Then she could go on and on, and then go on and on again, to her friends about how funny and talented her daughter-in-law is.
You know I’ve never seen a wet rain before. Is it really wet?
Well IF I were your mother in law I would find you hallarious. I would def read. I however am so not OLD enough though to be a mother In Law. I can’t hardly write mother in law. Great post boomama as always.
You are good medicine, Boomama! Wet rain? Never heard of it here, in drought-afflicted Texas. But we sure could use some . . .As for your mother-in-law, could you send her over to my house, to make me laugh? I think I could sure use some of her, too. :)
And definitely–Definitely–print out some pages for her! She’ll love reading about herself (who doesn’t?), and she’ll rave even more about you. What’s not to love about that? And if you tell her that her grandson’s pictures are on your blog, she might just roll up her sleeves and dive on into the blogging world!
This is where I come every hour or so for my next dose of laughter!
Wow – you DO have a great relationship then, if you can write what you do and would love her to read it. My MIL is 93, and we tried to teach her to email but it exhausted all of us. My father gave the computer away when his past wife died – so he would have to do the thing you said, have us email his neighbor who could print it out and run it down the street. This is the first time today I’ve LOL – so thanks for that! Off to woods, cant wait when I get back to see what you all have come up with in my absence.
My mother still believes, deep down, that if she hits the wrong button on her computer, she’s going to send missles to Russia or something. I helped her order a quilting book online one time and she thought that was just fabulous. She had a period where she would look up quilting sites, but only if she knew exactly what she was looking for. I don’t think her computer ever gets turned on unless one of us kids are home and she still has dial up and NEVER, repeat NEVER uses email
Do you know how blessed you are to have such a close relationship with your MIL? How wonderful for both of you!
Your MIL sounds like a hoot! I’d love to hear more stories about her and the funny things she says.
I agree with Lauren, as I was reading this I thought how cool it was that the two of you have such a good relationship. Blessed for sure!
You truly are blessed! I am close to my MIL, but I dont think she would find it amusing that I share my life with complete strangers on a daily basis.
Her words “Thats just so… icky and private.”
I am a bit jealous!
Heather
My mom is a probation officer… there is NOOOOOO WAAAAYYYY I’m telling her about my blog… she would give me the safety lecture!