My Mother-In-Law’s Lost It

Not very often does my youngest daughter (10.5-months old) sleep in past 6:00 AM, especially the last week or so as she’s been teething. When I looked at the clock this morning, saw that it was 6:30, and she was still asleep, I was quite happy, rolled back over, and went back to sleep, setting the alarm for 7:30, as I didn’t have to be at work until 9:00 today.

At 6:45, the phone rings. I know it’s my mother-in-law, as she always calls stupidly early. I ignore it, knowing she’ll just probably leave a message. Five minutes later, the phone rings again. I drag my grumpy butt out of bed, get the phone, it’s the mother-in-law.

“Did I wake you?”

What I wanted to say was “Yes you did, you psychopath! What could be so important that you need to keep calling me several times before 7:00 am?”

But what came out was “No.”

Her big emergency that she felt the need to call me at the crack of dawn for? She wanted to make sure that, since she was going to be gone on Friday, that we recorded Ronald Reagan’s memorial service for her.

This is a woman who doesn’t give a rip about politics or the people involved until the people die — then suddenly she has the utmost respect for them (unless they’re Democrat, then she’d probably be dancing on their grave).

And since we don’t get the local NBC affiliate very well on our TV (which is what she expects us to record), we’ll probably be recording the CNN version — which I’m sure she thinks is a stupidly liberal network, and she probably won’t even watch it, even though it will be the exact same video and memorial service.