a minor beating.....

ok, so....earlier this week my Facebook home page popped a notice that the outlaw brother-in-law who got me started in this Facebook mania had a birthday coming up....so i sent a global email to all of our extended kin...as is our custom to start a email to encourage others to get us all up-to-date on our happenings.....i mentioned how pleased i was that i now had the opportunity to pass my spare time with scramble and other word games, and how i was pleased to have gotten to know his sisters through Facebook.....and how much i enjoyed playing word games with them.....and.....then i got an email from yet another of the siblings that an actual sister of my spouse shared the same birthday....and that i had committed a faux pas by mentioning one and not the other...who knew?.......and i am still angry over this.....as i have been in this family for 26 years with meager remembrance of my own birthday......not at 30, or at 40......and when i got flowers from my youngest outlaw at age 50 I was tearful because this was out of the blue........thankfully my extended family-outlaw/scramble partner just sent around a global response admitting that she was also unaware of the dual celebration....and she has known this core family longer than i......i am thankful for small favors.....as my feelings are quite tender at this time in life.....