Patience, party of one.

Oh I try.

I really try.

I love my parents, I really do. But sometimes it takes all I got.

Today we went to a well known import store ( I'm not promoting free advertising for anyone). OK . . . fine, I have mentioned Walmart before. It was Pier 1. Mom decided she needed some candles. Some smelly candles. Some Christmas tree smelling candles. Some unbelievably strong smelling Christmas tree candles.

Mind you, one candle was enough of an assault on the nasal passages. Two would send you over the top.

She got four.

She wants two for the living room and two for the dining room.

One is plenty. Two is much. Four is an attack. A full frontal attack.

Breathe.

We went to Walmart . . . And she kept on buying a lot of food. I finally asked why not wait. We can get it later. She is so used to not being able to drive that she was packing up for later.

We still got a buggy's worth of food and stuff.

Laugh. It is kind'a funny.

Panadera messed up our order tonight.

I didn't feel like arguing about it. We ordered chips with our plates. Two got chips, one got bread. I gave dad my chips and took his bread. No arguing. Just hungry.

Mom opened up her bag of chips and poured almost all into my plate.

BREATHE!

So as Mr. Brady used to ask the kids after a bit of trouble . . . What have you learned?

I should just try to adapt to them and not expect them to adapt to me. They DO live here and they do have their way of doing things. I just need to figure out how I can adapt to it and not expect them to adapt to me (cause I believe I know best).

Breathe. Just breathe. A lot.

And laugh. Just laugh. A lot more. Cause they are funny in their way. They do funny things and things that, if you don't laugh, you end of screaming. And screaming is not how I want them to remember me or me remember them.

Hug and kiss a lot. If you think it is too much. Go a little more. Cause you can never show them love enough.

And take loads of pictures. Silly ones. Unapproved ones. "ay Ignacio" ones. Just take them.

It'll somehow make you feel better later.