| The morning starts out so well that you have | | | | were good enough for her precious baby and |
| no idea that it's all going go to pot within | | | | made no bones about showing it to you. |
| the next few hours. You get up as usual and | | | | |
| grab you mug of coffee before going out to | | | | However, that was neither here nor there as |
| the deck to sit back and enjoy the early | | | | what really mattered now was getting the |
| morning peace. Idly you leaf through the home | | | | house into some semblance of order before |
| improvement catalog that came in the mail | | | | they arrived next week. Sometime next week to |
| yesterday and which was left on the table. | | | | be exact. Your gaze falls to the home |
| When the phone call comes you have no idea | | | | improvement catalog which you've all but torn |
| that your world will very shortly be turned | | | | in your hands and almost fall over yourself |
| upside down on its face and that you're going | | | | when it finally registers what you have in |
| to be stressed once again in your life. | | | | your hand. |
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| Your partner comes outside to join you with a | | | | A snippet of an article you had seen in the |
| sheepish smile on his face. He then proceeds | | | | home improvement catalog comes back to you |
| to give you the bad news. His parents have | | | | and you start flipping madly through the |
| finally decided to take a vacation from their | | | | pages to find it. You know you're really far |
| extended vacation traveling the globe and | | | | gone when an absurd relief flows through you |
| they'll be stopping by on their way home, for | | | | when you finally find it, but that's just how |
| a few days only, but they definitely will be | | | | it is. |
| coming and sometime after next week. | | | | |
| | | | Clutching the home improvement catalog to |
| You grip the home improvement catalog as it's | | | | you, you marshal your forces and go about |
| your lifeline and paste a bright smile on | | | | following almost to the letter the home |
| your face. All you can do is think of all the | | | | improvement tips and tricks which will get |
| house work which you had let slide for the | | | | you through your period of stress. And this |
| past few months. Everything had probably | | | | then is why home improvement catalogs were |
| accumulated to the point of your dust bunnies | | | | created to begin with and you have a |
| having little dust bunnies of their own. It | | | | subscription. To think, you were almost on |
| wasn't that you didn't like your | | | | the verge of canceling it too, thinking you |
| mother-in-law, or that she didn't like you, | | | | didn't really need it! |
| it was just that she had never thought you | | | | |