MontanaMama
MontanaMama's JournalQuestion for you all regarding holiday celebrations and covid safety.
So my mother in law has an annual party for family a week or so before Christmas. She didn't have the party the last two years due to Covid. This year she says she's going ahead with her plans despite the guidance that indoor gatherings in small spaces with people who aren't vaccinated are not recommended. My MIL's home is beautiful but quite small...it might be 900 sq feet in total. My brother in law, his wife and two of my adult nephews will be there and they are un-vaccinated and vocally anti-vax.
When my MIL told me about her plans, I asked if she would consider a lunch celebration outside as an alternative...I would bring our fire pit, a pile of wood and a bbq grill and my outdoor kitchen set up...we could go sledding and have hot toddy's around the bonfire. She said she was absolutely not interested in anything of the sort. I did my best to let her know that we are not comfortable meeting indoors in a small space with un-vaccinated people and she told me that she was aware that we felt that way but she was going ahead regardless. She said she works very hard to decorate her home for the holidays and she wants her family to appreciate it....all the while I am thinking to myself that I would not enjoy one minute of her party if I was worried about getting sick. Sigh.
Am I overreacting? Am I being unreasonable? I may ask her if we (my husband and our 17 year old kiddo) could come a few minutes ahead of the crowd to admire her decorations and wish her a happy holiday and leave before the antivaxxers arrive to if that will suffice. I'm waiting for my husband to get home from a back country trip to talk with him about this. Does it do any good if I stay home but my husband and son attend?
I'm at a loss.
Earthquake in western MT at 6:47 am.
3.7 magnitude. Epicenter was near Ravalli, MT just north of Missoula. It woke me up…my wooden blinds were rattling. Anybody else feel it? It also looks like several quakes have occurred near Cokeville, WY.
Voting As Fire Extinguisher (a poem)
When a haunted house catches fire:
a moment of indecision.
The house was, after all, built on bones,
and blood and bad intentions.
Everyone who enters the house feels
that overwhelming dread, the evil
that perhaps only fire can purge.
It's tempting to just let it burn.
And then I remember:
there are children inside.
-Kyle Tran Myhre
The larch trees in Montana are doing their thing!
Yesterday was my birthday and most years it’s a cold rainy day on 10/29 but yesterday was a stunner of a day. My birthday wish was to go out for brunch (I hate cooking breakfast) and have a mimosa and go for a hike with my husband and my dog to see the larch trees. They’re only lit up like this a couple of weeks a year and yesterday did not disappoint. It was a perfect day.
Caught these two fur balls
strolling past my house last night. My trail cam doesn’t take the best photos…but you get the idea. Paw Patrol! 🐻
Took Maybee to the creek near my house this afternoon for some fun.
The smoke cleared out and we had a bluebird afternoon. She herds moving water in typical border collie fashion. When we go to a pond or lake she will fetch a toys but at the creek she’s a working girl. She came home tired…at least for the moment.
Sometime in the last two hours
someone slapped this sticker on my mailbox. I’ve got no issue with *ucker Carlson being portrayed as a nazi, it’s just odd that this ended up on my personal mailbox…anybody that knows me would know I hate this MF. Guess it was random…but it’s weird all the same.
I’m just asking questions…
My kiddo will be a senior in high school as of tomorrow morning.
I’m incredibly emotional about it. Where did 17 years go? He’s my only child. I gave birth to Owen at the age of 41 after two miscarriages. I cannot believe that this beautiful gifted child was given to me. He’s smart and incredibly funny. He’s the spitting image of my late father which is a gift that I can’t even describe. He loves to fish, play piano and guitar. He is a deep thinker and his BS detector is second to none. I think he will stay in Missoula and major in music at the University of Montana but he’s being courted by a crap ton of schools so I don’t really know what he will eventually decide to do. Owen is a beautiful soul and while it’s easy for me to say that I love him…It feels important to say that I just like him so much. I wish him the best this last year of high school.
He gave me permission to share this pic with you all. He knows what DU means to me and that you all are my friends.
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