Comments on: Wife of the Year Award http://sherralifelesson.com/wife-of-the-year-award/ Real life. Real lessons. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:34:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Linda B http://sherralifelesson.com/wife-of-the-year-award/comment-page-1/#comment-807 Linda B Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:47:04 +0000 http://sherralifelesson.com/wife-of-the-year-award/#comment-807 I vote for Melinda as winner. Holy cow is all I can say! Purple Heart might be appropriate for her! I vote for Melinda as winner. Holy cow is all I can say! Purple Heart might be appropriate for her!

]]> By: SherraLifeLesson.com » “All About Me” http://sherralifelesson.com/wife-of-the-year-award/comment-page-1/#comment-798 SherraLifeLesson.com » “All About Me” Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:01:50 +0000 http://sherralifelesson.com/wife-of-the-year-award/#comment-798 [...] Okay, but let me remind you that in April I was in serious contention for Wife of the Year… [...] [...] Okay, but let me remind you that in April I was in serious contention for Wife of the Year… [...]

]]> By: SherraLifeLesson.com » Winner for Wife of the Year! http://sherralifelesson.com/wife-of-the-year-award/comment-page-1/#comment-593 SherraLifeLesson.com » Winner for Wife of the Year! Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:44:22 +0000 http://sherralifelesson.com/wife-of-the-year-award/#comment-593 [...] know I said that we could all vote but since I made up the award, I also made up the rules and therefore am allowed to change [...] [...] know I said that we could all vote but since I made up the award, I also made up the rules and therefore am allowed to change [...]

]]> By: Sherra http://sherralifelesson.com/wife-of-the-year-award/comment-page-1/#comment-582 Sherra Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:23:19 +0000 http://sherralifelesson.com/wife-of-the-year-award/#comment-582 MAN OH MAN, the mother-in-law subject stirred you all up!! It's been a very busy week but I promise to review the nominations next week. I think we have 3 contenders in Joanne, Diane & Melinda. The rest of you just need support because you are a GOOD ENOUGH daughter-in-law (and might even be better than good!) In Gayle's case, she has been more than a GOOD ENOUGH wife - so here's your pat on the back!!!! Thanks to all who took the time to comment! :) MAN OH MAN, the mother-in-law subject stirred you all up!! It’s been a very busy week but I promise to review the nominations next week. I think we have 3 contenders in Joanne, Diane & Melinda. The rest of you just need support because you are a GOOD ENOUGH daughter-in-law (and might even be better than good!) In Gayle’s case, she has been more than a GOOD ENOUGH wife – so here’s your pat on the back!!!!

Thanks to all who took the time to comment! :)

]]> By: Peggy http://sherralifelesson.com/wife-of-the-year-award/comment-page-1/#comment-580 Peggy Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:21:31 +0000 http://sherralifelesson.com/wife-of-the-year-award/#comment-580 My MIL reamed me out a few years ago for not making (and keeping) her son happy. After 25 years of marriage she and I 'tolerate' each other very minimally. She really doesn't travel much so I rarely have to deal with long visits but they do happen occasionally. Besides, I feel that it is your own responsibility to make yourself happy- not someone else's job. My MIL reamed me out a few years ago for not making (and keeping) her son happy. After 25 years of marriage she and I ‘tolerate’ each other very minimally. She really doesn’t travel much so I rarely have to deal with long visits but they do happen occasionally. Besides, I feel that it is your own responsibility to make yourself happy- not someone else’s job.

]]> By: Gayle http://sherralifelesson.com/wife-of-the-year-award/comment-page-1/#comment-579 Gayle Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:19:22 +0000 http://sherralifelesson.com/wife-of-the-year-award/#comment-579 My Wife of the Year award doesn't have much to do with my mother-in-law, but.... I've spent 23 years learning to like things my husband likes: I learned how to love Auburn football (season tickets, weekends tailgating every fall, carrying a stupid orange & blue pocketbook, etc.); I learned how to play golf (took lessons, got a set of clubs for "my birthday", bought those stupid shoes, played on the weekday mornings to save $$ (thanks Sherra!); I learned how to like NASCAR (went to races, memorized which cars went with which drivers, even eventually took a job at Atlanta Motor Speedway); I learned how to appreciate fine wine (read "Wine for Dummies" book, went to wine tastings, tried fancy & expensive ones - but give me $6 a bottle of Beringer White Zin anyday!). But do you think he EVER sat down and worked on ONE SINGLE scrapbook page with ME???? Nope. I still love him, but BOY does he owe me! (Or you could just give me the award - that should suffice. A pat on the back from someone would be nice and would probably help me release all this pent up hostility....) :) My Wife of the Year award doesn’t have much to do with my mother-in-law, but….

I’ve spent 23 years learning to like things my husband likes: I learned how to love Auburn football (season tickets, weekends tailgating every fall, carrying a stupid orange & blue pocketbook, etc.); I learned how to play golf (took lessons, got a set of clubs for “my birthday”, bought those stupid shoes, played on the weekday mornings to save $$ (thanks Sherra!); I learned how to like NASCAR (went to races, memorized which cars went with which drivers, even eventually took a job at Atlanta Motor Speedway); I learned how to appreciate fine wine (read “Wine for Dummies” book, went to wine tastings, tried fancy & expensive ones – but give me $6 a bottle of Beringer White Zin anyday!).

But do you think he EVER sat down and worked on ONE SINGLE scrapbook page with ME???? Nope.

I still love him, but BOY does he owe me! (Or you could just give me the award – that should suffice. A pat on the back from someone would be nice and would probably help me release all this pent up hostility….) :)

]]> By: Ann http://sherralifelesson.com/wife-of-the-year-award/comment-page-1/#comment-578 Ann Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:45:28 +0000 http://sherralifelesson.com/wife-of-the-year-award/#comment-578 Don't even get me started on my mother in law! You win in my book, Sherra!! It would really help my situation if my MIL were like Granny! Don’t even get me started on my mother in law! You win in my book, Sherra!! It would really help my situation if my MIL were like Granny!

]]> By: Joanne http://sherralifelesson.com/wife-of-the-year-award/comment-page-1/#comment-577 Joanne Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:27:34 +0000 http://sherralifelesson.com/wife-of-the-year-award/#comment-577 I do believe I should be in the running... At the end of my first preganancy, I invited my MIL to stay with us until the baby was born AND until the christening. Now I got along very well with my MIL while she was across the country. She is a worrier and planner who thinks she's easy going. She stayed with us for 5 1/2 weeks with my FIL joining us for the last 2 weeks. By the end of the stay my husband and I were hiding in our bedroom! Still...2 years later with my second child we invited her again - for 6 weeks. What were we thinking? She now lives 8 miles from us since my FIL passed on Thanksgiving. I must say that the kids love her and my husband does in small doses, like dinner or the movies. I'm the one who listens to her concerns, gives her practical advice, and makes her laugh when she's down. It turns out that not expecting much from her for myself has been really good for our relationship and we have now started to become friends! I do believe I should be in the running… At the end of my first preganancy, I invited my MIL to stay with us until the baby was born AND until the christening. Now I got along very well with my MIL while she was across the country. She is a worrier and planner who thinks she’s easy going. She stayed with us for 5 1/2 weeks with my FIL joining us for the last 2 weeks. By the end of the stay my husband and I were hiding in our bedroom! Still…2 years later with my second child we invited her again – for 6 weeks. What were we thinking?

She now lives 8 miles from us since my FIL passed on Thanksgiving.

I must say that the kids love her and my husband does in small doses, like dinner or the movies. I’m the one who listens to her concerns, gives her practical advice, and makes her laugh when she’s down. It turns out that not expecting much from her for myself has been really good for our relationship and we have now started to become friends!

]]> By: Tammy http://sherralifelesson.com/wife-of-the-year-award/comment-page-1/#comment-576 Tammy Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:04:36 +0000 http://sherralifelesson.com/wife-of-the-year-award/#comment-576 Sherra - looks like you opened a Pandora's box here with this topic! Perhaps that will up your comment count drastically and really entice more readers to stop by your fabulous and oh-so-real site. That said, I will throw my hat into the ring for wife of the year... My husband's family hates me. They hate the choices my husband and I have made concerning home school, dating, religion...you name it, they disagree with it. I have even written them all notes to apologize for what they perceive I have done (I couldn't really apologize for the things they accused me that are totally crazy, now could I?) and to ask them if we could try and rebuild our relationships so that my husband doesn't get thrust in the middle. To which their response was ZILCH - NADA - NOTHING!!! I could go on and on and post one of those monstrously long posts but suffice it to say the fact that I live surround by crazy people while homeschooling two teenagers, helping out with my handicap brother and taking care of my mom following her double knee replacement starting next week should qualify me for at least a runner up position! Good luck and have fun with Granny! Six days to go Miss Flexible! Sherra – looks like you opened a Pandora’s box here with this topic! Perhaps that will up your comment count drastically and really entice more readers to stop by your fabulous and oh-so-real site. That said, I will throw my hat into the ring for wife of the year…

My husband’s family hates me. They hate the choices my husband and I have made concerning home school, dating, religion…you name it, they disagree with it. I have even written them all notes to apologize for what they perceive I have done (I couldn’t really apologize for the things they accused me that are totally crazy, now could I?) and to ask them if we could try and rebuild our relationships so that my husband doesn’t get thrust in the middle. To which their response was ZILCH – NADA – NOTHING!!! I could go on and on and post one of those monstrously long posts but suffice it to say the fact that I live surround by crazy people while homeschooling two teenagers, helping out with my handicap brother and taking care of my mom following her double knee replacement starting next week should qualify me for at least a runner up position!

Good luck and have fun with Granny! Six days to go Miss Flexible!

]]> By: Stupid Mother #2 http://sherralifelesson.com/wife-of-the-year-award/comment-page-1/#comment-575 Stupid Mother #2 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:13:58 +0000 http://sherralifelesson.com/wife-of-the-year-award/#comment-575 OK, I would welcome the day that we actually have my mother in law OR my mother want to come and visit. My mother seems to use every excuse in the book to not travel and my inlaws go everywhere on the planet but don't seem to have time to come and see the grandkids. When they do come it's during a lay over from another trip and it is never more than 48 hours. Our kids are good kids and we have a decent house in which I run like a bed and breakfast when we do have visitors and I am pretty darn hospitable. So what's up? All I can say is that the grandparents are missing out on precious time with their grandkids and someday it will be too late to make up for lost time. My lovely husband wonders what I have done to make them stay away and I swear it's not me!! By the way this post is going, it looks like I don't get the award at this time. Hmmm, I think I'll just enjoy my family and not stress over the fact that I never have to worry about the two hour notice! OK, I would welcome the day that we actually have my mother in law OR my mother want to come and visit. My mother seems to use every excuse in the book to not travel and my inlaws go everywhere on the planet but don’t seem to have time to come and see the grandkids. When they do come it’s during a lay over from another trip and it is never more than 48 hours. Our kids are good kids and we have a decent house in which I run like a bed and breakfast when we do have visitors and I am pretty darn hospitable. So what’s up? All I can say is that the grandparents are missing out on precious time with their grandkids and someday it will be too late to make up for lost time. My lovely husband wonders what I have done to make them stay away and I swear it’s not me!! By the way this post is going, it looks like I don’t get the award at this time. Hmmm, I think I’ll just enjoy my family and not stress over the fact that I never have to worry about the two hour notice!

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