MsCowgirl's Journal

Life is never dull with both parents and in-laws in their mid 80's, and I am rapidly learning the "tricks of the trade" so to speak, that I'm sure will help me in my latter years. Our parents have lived through a world war, depression, emmigration to a new country and survived raising their own brood of kids, so they know a thing or two,or three, or four.....

Like my dad who, on returning from the shopping realised he had been charged full price for an item he had seen on "special" in the morning paper. He marched straight back to the shop, gave some poor assistant a piece of his mind. She dutifully credited him for the oversight, only to find when he got home, that he'd actually gone to a different store to one with the advertised special!

Mum's not bad either, she's got very poor vision and managed to beat the living daylights out of a 2cent piece and then realised it was'nt a cockroach after all, and has managed to spray fly spray under her arms in mistake for deoderant!

My father-in -law loves cooking and whilst he lives with you, you will never be able to find anything again in your kitchen, and apart from that he used every pot, plate, knife, spoon, fork, cup, saucer and anything else he can find, just to fry an egg! You will never go hungry with him in the house, but you do need to stock up on washing-up liquid.

And lastly, my mum-in-law. She's from Ireland where she started smoking when she was 9yrs old. Now, "smoking has never affected me and I've been smoking for 73yrs - cough, splutter". However she has the investigative prowess that would even put the guys on CSI to shame! If you need to find something, just ask my mum-in-law - she will track you down in no time, whether you want to be found or not!

Put them all together and we lose our glasses, mix-up our tablets, forget the grandchildrens names, are proud of our saggy underwear, drive the wrong way up a street, tell their Dr he looks like he's just left school and generally they make more of a spectacle of themselves in public than a classroom of children!

But who's trade them - we certainly would'nt. Forget Foxtel or sitting back with a DVD, we just watch our parents who provide us with never-ending entertainment and laughs - bless them.