Hanging out, down the street

[JustStunned]

Journaling: GD is up on all fours and beginning to babble. They grow fast don’t they.

I attended Nephew2’s Eagle Scout award ceremony. X was there. It went well. We avoided each other and when we couldn’t we ignored each other.

I toyed with the idea of walking over and giving her a great big hug and rejected the idea as it would have been only to F with her mind and she is having enough trouble there these days

I perceive some underlying tension in the extended family principally with SIL2. This could have been a function of her son’s ceremony and that I was acknowledged in it. Whatever, remaining composed and not being the source of tension was proper.

There is also the possibility a conversation I had with SIL2 illuminated some of what is bothering her. During it she said “We are only really complete when all of the sisters are together”. I agreed with her in that three of the sisters are very close. Where that goes is up to them, for the most part the extended family consists of adults or nearly adult children and they should be treated as such.