Mom is giving her toddler melatonin; is this safe?
Don't just demand your file. Ask your parents if they will go over your file with you. This will include them in the process, and prompt stories and feelings that they will want to share.
Let them keep the original, and you make a copy for yourself.
Dear Amy: "Unmerry Christmas" and her husband went to their daughter-in-law's family home (at their son's invitation) on Christmas morning, and were not made welcome.
What a shame that the hosts couldn't simply laugh it off and offer hospitality!
My husband and I have had holidays and other occasions with surprises, such as: A Thanksgiving with four un-housebroken dogs, an unexpected Easter dinner visit from our daughter's lumberjack friend in work clothes (complete with an axe over his shoulder) and former Army buddies who came for drinks and left two days later.
We laugh over those memories and hope that we and the house will hold up for many years to come.
-- Still Smiling
Dear Smiling: That's the spirit!
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