🌼 Gratitude in April: Day 22
Thankful for our ability to recognize absurdity
Here's a short list of crazy-making absurdities that have popped up between houses over the years:
Relentless phone calls from HCBM expressing concern that a particular school project of SD's wouldn't be done in time. Then, when we finished the project early at our house (thinking we were doing HCBM a favor, since she seemed so stressed over it), HCBM accusing us of 'stealing" it away from her. 🙃
SD insisting she really did want to move to a new city and start at a new school and meet new people and make new friends! Her mom wasn't talking her into it at all... then that same weekend, SD also refusing to go to BD's friend's birthday party: "But I won't know anyone there!!" 🤦🏻♀️
HCBM arguing for a solid year that us moving to a new city and making SD's 1-hour flight into a 2-hour flight would be detrimental to SD's health and well-being... then finding out her husband was getting transferred across the country, which would now mean SD had a 5-hour flight. Yet somehow that longer flight was never brought up as a concern. 🤔
I could go on, but then I'd run the risk of forgetting that I'm in the middle of a gratitude challenge.
It's so, so easy to get angry at all this nonsense. It's so easy to see red when faced with blatant double standards and sarsaparilla rules and flat-out lies. And we just have to refuse. We have to.
And then we gotta laugh instead, because let's face it: sometimes this shit is absolutely fucking ridiculous.
So today, BOY OH BOY am I thankful that I've got an eye for the absurd and a taste for dark humor, because those two qualities served me swimmingly on my very worst stepparenting days.
I'm also thankful I can (mostly) laugh at this garbage now, even though every minute felt serious as a heart attack while I was in it.
TODAY'S PROMPT:
See if you can find the absurdity in whatever's making you bonkers. See if you can laugh instead of rage, and then add your own sense of humor to your list of things you're thankful for today.