Guest blog by Dawnyel Bowersox, Do It All Moms Blog
We love to ask people about their best - or worst - memories from moving. Some of those memories you have to block. We understand. I'm pretty sure I've blocked a bunch of moving memories, because I can't remember driving our 80-pound Akita from Kentucky to Florida with a car full of kids, suitcases, and random boxes of liquids and flammables. I mean, honestly, I can't remember a single thing about the trip, so I can only assume that there were nasty restrooms, bad junk food and some road rage involved.
Dawnyel Bowersox, who has a cool moms' website full of fun, contests and coupons, has a story that we're glad is still fresh in her memory. It involves her mother-in-law, so you'll definitely want to read this.
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Newly married and moving into our first house, my husband was given a precious gift from his mother. My Mother in-law. It was a collage type frame filled with time line photos of him ranging from birth up until he got married. Such a nice and thoughtful idea.
When my mother in-law presented my husband with the frame she looked directly at me and said "Do NOT let anything happen to this photo frame, this is the one thing I have been able to keep for him throughout the years."
I kind of took offense to that statement. She was speaking to me as if I was going to break it. I assumed it was a family heirloom that it needed to be kept safe.
Finally settled into our new home, I began to unpack and hang all of our photos on the wall.
I made it down to the famous photo frame that my mother in-law had given to us. I will admit, it was adorable. I took it out to hang it and bang. Yup, I dropped it. The horror that was going through my mind. My mother in-law was going to have a fit. I broke the precious frame she had given her baby boy. She will never forgive me, what am I going to do? She will be here in the morning to help finish the unpacking.
Panic mode set in. My first task as a daughter in-law and I completely failed. I began tossing things out of boxes in a desperate search for super glue. I was going to glue that baby back together and she would never know! I had things strung from one end of the house to the other, literally. I was sparing no item. Why didn't I organize the boxes better, why can't I find the freaking super glue, why did she look directly at me and tell ME not to break the frame?
After a good 30 minutes of looking I did find the glue, I am pretty sure the heavens opened and I heard singing when I spotted the glue in the office supply box. Why didn't I look there to begin with? Frantically grabbing the glue and the frame I prepped for a painstaking photo frame procedure. I was going to revive this frame if it was the last thing I did.
I laid the patient down on the dining room table, as I began to open it up it wasn't wanting to come apart. So I yanked on it to get to the inside. A picture frame can say 1,000 words. What I saw was shocking! There was hot glue everywhere inside the frame. It was apparent that someone ELSE had previously broken the frame and did a poor job of fixing it.
If I confronted my mother in law, she would know I broke the frame. If I didn't mention it to her I would go on wondering what the heck for the rest of my life. I decided to be honest and tell the truth, not because it was the right thing to do, but because I wanted to know what the deal with the hot glue was. Curiosity got the best of me.
When my mother in-law got here the next day I came clean, but not without questioning the hot glue. Her response.."Oh yeah I have dropped and broken that thing a few times, the last time I dropped it all I had was hot glue."
What?...WHAT??? I told her I thought it was a family heirloom and how sorry I was. Her response was NOT shocking at all, and I do not know why I did not realize this in the beginning. The photos were the precious items she did not want ruined, not the frame. Well in a nut shell.."DUH." That was the only thought in my head at that point.. DUH, DUH, DUH.
Dawnyel Bowersox, in addition to having a cool name, runs Do It All Moms Blog. Find money-saving tips, deals and coupon match-ups at www.doitallmomsblog.com. "Read my ridiculous ramblings and product reviews. Watch for giveaways, twitter parties, recipe and DIY ideas. We make doing it all fun!"
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If you like Diane's humorous take on moving, you'll love her book Home Sweet Homes: How Bundt Cakes, Bubble Wrap, and My Accent Helped Me Survive Nine Moves.
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