WWMMD

So most (in not all) of you have heard of WWJD. Well I have changed it up a bit! Let me give you the background story to explain.


The other night I was not feeling well at all. I had a horrible case of heart burn, a really bad headache and my stomach was not 100%. My husband (who I love dearly!) is not the best when it comes to me being sick. He will get me anything I need but doesn't really know what to do more than what I ask of him. So normally I would turn to my mother. As you know, my mom and dad have moved to Miami. Not only is it hard on me personally, it really kills me when I'm sick. A mother knows EXACTLY what to do in a situation such as this. Well since my mother is not available, I had to think....What Would My Mother Do (hence the WWMMD!!) So as I was laying in bed, I thought of what my mother might say and this is what I did. I made myself get out of bed to take a shower (in "mom" words..."Krista...go take a nice hot showah...let the hot watah hit your head.) Well...that was fantastic! I then thought of her saying "Krista...once your out of the showah, come lay down with me and we will watch TV until you fall asleep". Well I grabbed Beauty and the Beast (DISNEY of course!!) and took my computer and put in in the bed with me and literally fell asleep to it. It worked!! So thanks mom for "being here" when I really needed you!! 

Since this is a mother post...I wanted to quickly thank my mother and mother - in - law for not being like this crazy woman. When I heard about this e-mail from a mother-in-law to her future daughter...I wanted to thank God for the wonderful mothers I have in my life. So THANK YOU!!! Below is the e-mail. WOW!!

It is high time someone explained to you about good manners. Yours are obvious by their absence and I feel sorry for you.

Unfortunately for Freddie, he has fallen in love with you and Freddie being Freddie, I gather it is not easy to reason with him or yet encourage him to consider how he might be able to help you. It may just be possible to get through to you though. I do hope so.

If you want to be accepted by the wider Bourne family I suggest you take some guidance from experts with utmost haste. There are plenty of finishing schools around.

Please, for your own good, for Freddie's sake and for your future involvement with the Bourne family, do something as soon as possible.

Here are a few examples of your lack of manners:

When you are a guest in another's house, you do not declare what you will and will not eat - unless you are positively allergic to something. You do not remark that you do not have enough food. You do not start before everyone else.

You do not take additional helpings without being invited to by your host.

When a guest in another's house, you do not lie in bed until late morning in households that rise early - you fall in line with house norms.

You should never ever insult the family you are about to join at any time and most definitely not in public. I gather you passed this off as a joke but the reaction in the pub was one of shock, not laughter.

You should have hand-written a card to me. You have never written to thank me when you have stayed.

You regularly draw attention to yourself. Perhaps you should ask yourself why.

No one gets married in a castle unless they own it. It is brash, celebrity style behaviour.

I understand your parents are unable to contribute very much towards the cost of your wedding. (There is nothing wrong with that except that convention is such that one might presume they would have saved over the years for their daughters' marriages.)

If this is the case, it would be most ladylike and gracious to lower your sights and have a modest wedding as befits both your incomes.