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Dear Mom and Me,
My mother, like her mother before her always took great pleasure in preparing a lovely Christmas dinner for her family. When it was passed on to me, I was happy to keep up this tradition because our family always enjoyed Christmas day.
Our daughter loves to come, but has made no attempt
at assuming her role. Several years ago I suggested that she bring dessert. She did, two half gallons of ice-cream in a plastic bag. I suggested to her that it was time for her to cook the dinner. I am seventy six years old and would just love to have a day to enjoy without cooking. She has told me she cannot do it, “I work and don’t have the time”. I feel very hurt. Am I expecting too much from a working woman of one meal a year?
Tired of Cooking
Dear Tired of Cooking,
Working women of today are pulled in many directions, with work and home responsibilities.
While family and inter-generational traditions are important, some need to be modi ed and others are just too time consuming or too out of date to continue.
Talk with your daughter and tell her how important the Christmas dinner is to you, and see if a compromise can be made. Your daughter seems to need some assistance to meet the demands of today, or she is very sel sh and a very poor organizer.
Kimberley
Dear Tired of Cooking,
I do not think you are asking too much from your working daughter, but I am of your generation.
Our generation did many things we did not always want to do. We did what was expected of us - to keep family peace and to make others happy - wasn’t that our role? However, times have changed! The younger women just have other priorities and they are not afraid to express their opinions.
It seems to me like sel shness on the part of your daughter to be so unwilling to carry on family tradition and to give you a happy day. There are so many user friendly frozen foods, pre-cooked foods, packaged food that with a little planning she could prepare and present a very nice meal with ease.
Audrey
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Mom&Me by Audrey & Kimberley