Wise happy buddha



and Para, my mom is like a steamroller. She's awesome and she's used to getting her way. She and my dad are still happily married and he spoils her. In all honestly, I suspect things are tight for them financially and although my brother and sister both live close to her in the midwest, I suspect she thinks that since my kids are nearly grown I could come and take care of them. I do have to leave here once littlest is finished with her schooling. But that is another story.

I'm not sure I can do it. I love my mom and dad but I have always been the black sheep of the family - I don't do conventional very well.

And I worry that my already strained relationships with my siblings would be truly severed if I were to buy a house with my parents who are in their 80s and then they are gone and I live in a house that is part of their estate. It gets complicated but life is that way.

I hope everyone finds something that tastes as good as my coffee does today!