This weekend was the birthday of our Godson Colin. It is hard to believe that a year has passed since his birth but it has came and went. I now I talk about my own family here. Just for today I want to talk about my friend Heidi's family. I love Heidi to death. She has issues... as we all do. I really needed this weekend to put it all into perspective for me.
On Saturday I went alone (Josh had to work) to Waukesha. It was only Colin's family and Godparents (Josh and I) invited to this party. I was a little nervous because I have had a few interactions with Heidi's family in the past. Heidi's mom is a VERY dominating person. She is the type that you don't disagree with or second guess. The funny thing is that she can be so sweet and nice one minute and just go off the next. By the time I had left Saturday afternoon Heidi was neither speaking to her mom nor her sister. In fact her sister had packed up her family and left town. First of all, I feel bad for Heidi and Colin that her family had to ruin Colin's first birthday for her. Secondly, I really feel badly for Heidi, at one point in the afternoon I heard her yell "Why can't we have a normal fucking family?" I feel that the way Heidi was raised she has turned out pretty well balanced. With a mother who asks her 25 year old daughter if she has brushed her teeth and showered before she leaves the house, you have to be a little off. I spent a weekend with her mother last summer and almost couldn't handle it myself. I could not last a lifetime of the pestering.
Needless to say I will take with a grain of salt the bossing around of Mitch because that is all she knows. Hopefully someday she learns how to ask him to do something for him instead of bossing, but hey we aren't all perfect!
