My Finest X-Mess Memory
Dec. 28th, 2006 07:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daddytoddOK, so Ron & I were at my older brother's for dinner on Christmas Eve. All 4 of his kids were there; 2 girls & 2 boys ranging from 23 to 15. His wife has 9 kids (!!) by her first husband; I think 7 of them were there, along with a couple spouses, a couple more girlfriends, and a couple of grandkids.
Also there were my younger brother's 2 youngest daughters (he also has 4 kids, all girls) and my mom & dad. So, it was a HUGE gathering of the clan.
The absolute finest moment came when my oldest niece, the 23-year-old, announced that her boyfriend had proposed to her the previous week.
"So, when are you getting married?" someone asked
"I'm not, in fact, I broke up with him the next day." she replied
"Tell me more," I begged, sensing a good juicy story.
So she launched into a long tale of being surprised with a proposal at her boyfriend's family Christmas party (at the trailer park club house...) in front of his mother, siblings, aunts & uncles... etc. etc. For some reason she was forced to sit in Santa's lap while her boyfriend got down on one knee to propose. She told of letting out an acquiescent mumble at the end of the proposal.
Later, she ripped him to shreds: "How many times have I told you I don't want to get married? I don't want to have kids...? How could you think it was a good idea to spring a ring on me at your mom's party?"
She broke up him the next day.
This was all good; she told it better than I'm doing now. She was in rare form when she finished up with a line that absolutely brought the room to a standstill.
Now, you must understand that my family are staunch Mormons. That means that girls are raised to believe their only real role is wife and mother; that if they have to work too, it should never interfere with being mommy. And that mommy is the only thing they're really good for, anyway. Marriage and reproduction (strictly in that order) are the purpose and meaning of their lives.
So when she finished up by saying "I kinda think monogamy is for chumps, anyway," I saw all action in the room STOP! for a half-second, watched as each person rolled back the "tape" in his or her head and erased that statement, then carried on as if it had never been uttered.
It was a truly amazing moment, and I will cherish it as one of my finest Christmas Memories EVER!
Also there were my younger brother's 2 youngest daughters (he also has 4 kids, all girls) and my mom & dad. So, it was a HUGE gathering of the clan.
The absolute finest moment came when my oldest niece, the 23-year-old, announced that her boyfriend had proposed to her the previous week.
"So, when are you getting married?" someone asked
"I'm not, in fact, I broke up with him the next day." she replied
"Tell me more," I begged, sensing a good juicy story.
So she launched into a long tale of being surprised with a proposal at her boyfriend's family Christmas party (at the trailer park club house...) in front of his mother, siblings, aunts & uncles... etc. etc. For some reason she was forced to sit in Santa's lap while her boyfriend got down on one knee to propose. She told of letting out an acquiescent mumble at the end of the proposal.
Later, she ripped him to shreds: "How many times have I told you I don't want to get married? I don't want to have kids...? How could you think it was a good idea to spring a ring on me at your mom's party?"
She broke up him the next day.
This was all good; she told it better than I'm doing now. She was in rare form when she finished up with a line that absolutely brought the room to a standstill.
Now, you must understand that my family are staunch Mormons. That means that girls are raised to believe their only real role is wife and mother; that if they have to work too, it should never interfere with being mommy. And that mommy is the only thing they're really good for, anyway. Marriage and reproduction (strictly in that order) are the purpose and meaning of their lives.
So when she finished up by saying "I kinda think monogamy is for chumps, anyway," I saw all action in the room STOP! for a half-second, watched as each person rolled back the "tape" in his or her head and erased that statement, then carried on as if it had never been uttered.
It was a truly amazing moment, and I will cherish it as one of my finest Christmas Memories EVER!
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Date: 2006-12-28 02:58 pm (UTC)Re: Xmas
Date: 2006-12-28 03:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-28 03:49 pm (UTC)That definitely is one to put in your precious moments keeps sake book.
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Date: 2006-12-28 05:33 pm (UTC)[Error: unknown template 'video']
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Date: 2006-12-28 06:49 pm (UTC)Re: *chokes on water*
Date: 2006-12-29 04:12 am (UTC)Yay!
Re: *chokes*
Date: 2006-12-29 08:09 am (UTC)*chokes*
Date: 2006-12-29 08:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-29 12:41 am (UTC)Oh, that's right. One MAN, multiple wives, not the other way round.
*giggle*
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Date: 2006-12-29 04:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-29 04:31 am (UTC)*Grin*
Date: 2006-12-30 03:00 am (UTC)Wow!
Date: 2006-12-30 02:52 am (UTC)I'd love to have someone so free-spirited say something like that around me.
My holiday "week" was uneventful, but nice enough. I wish there were some 'kids' in my family around my age.