My mom (Callie) sent me a gift certificate for Mother’s Day. It’s for River Colors Yarn Store. I sent her cards so she & her mother (that would be my biological grandmother) can eat dinner out on us. I tried to do a magazine subscription for her but they didn’t allow gift subscriptions. I got her Cottage Living last year and they bunged it up and only sent her one issue. Then I complained and they sent a bunch at once. *sigh* Hence the restaurant gift cards. I know they can be used. My favorite gift cards are for book stores, craft stores and restaurants.
Since I’m talking about Callie, I wanted to mention this story that’s being passed around as a “heartwarming” of the Fox news anchor whose mother let her believe she was adopted rather than admit that she was born out of wedlock in the early 1960s. The non-adoptee found out the truth years later. I suppose we’re supposed to think it’s “heartwarming” b/c the mother decided to keep her after all and concocted this elaborate nonsense to cover up the truth.
I don’t think it’s very heartwarming to allow your child to believe she’s adopted when she’s not. To say that the stigma of having an out-of-wedlock child is worse than having a child wonder who she is and where she came from for the rest of her life. And if she hadn’t found out the truth, she could be undergoing a fruitless search for a birth parent. Plus the mother died of breast cancer. She would rather allow her child to believe her genetic medical history is a mystery than to say “you’ll need to get mammograms at an earlier age.”
Meh. It’s not worth my getting riled up about. I have yarn to buy. And that actually is heartwarming.
Yaaarn.
2 Comments
May 8, 2008 at 11:53 am
I’m with you. Deception is not very heartwarming.
Have fun knitting! You crafty people make me envious.
May 8, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I’ve told my kids lies (Santa, anyone?) but daaaamn.
I’m with radical mama – I’m jealous of the crafters.