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