Wednesday, March 30, 2005

ham loaf.....

ok, so in these days of parents claiming to have a more intimate knowledge of what their child-in-a-vegetative-state would have wanted than her spouse.......i give this example of how far off base parents can be about a child's preference......for many years after i went away to college, stopped coming back home during the summers, got married.......my mother would fix ham loaf and sharp-cheddar escalloped potatoes for dinner when i chanced to come home.......gentle readers....i would rather take a whipping than to eat ham loaf....and the cheese version of the potato dish was just too hsarp for my tastes......so one day i asked my mom why this combination always seemed to pop up during my visit home....'because you like it so much' was the quiet reply........where she got his idea is beyond me......and though she stopped making both of these concoctions....i know that she was doubly hurt.....1)because she missed the mark on what i like/didn't like and 2)because we both knew she missed the mark.......i am poles apart from my parents on political issues, despite 18 years of being brought up to be a good little republican....i am now southern baptist .....people change...and whether it is for the good or for the bad.......people are rarely at 40 the way they were at 10 or 15 or 20........... so the notion put forth by the parents that their daughter was raised roman catholic, and they are certain that her end-of-life wishes would be according to the pope's proclamation on such issues.......this is wishful thinking at best..........

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