Undependable Instability

So…I get a text from my mom today and it reads like this: “Hey honey, I’m moving to the Virgin Islands and I want to see the kids before Oct. 1st, OK?”

Well, how’s that for shock value! Whatever happened to “Hey honey, I bleached my hair!” or “Hey honey, I got a tattoo all up and down my arm!” or “Hey, I’m taking up a new hobby and it’s sky diving!” No, no! It has to be, “I’m moving to the Virgin Islands! See ya!” Who does that? Seriously. Who’s mom spontaneously up and moves to the VIRGIN ISLANDS?!

To be fair, this move isn’t entirely without reason. She got a new job which apparently pays more than her current job which, by the way, she has held for all of about three months. It’s the same with the job before that…and the job before that…are you seeing the pattern here? Well, wait a minute, I think one of her previous jobs lasted for only a month. So that was a little variation. And so now she’s relocating herself outside the U.S. (well, OK, outside continental U.S.) for how long? I give it two months! Ha! If even.

I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised given my side of the family’s MO. Yep, that’s right. My family doesn’t really know the meaning of the word stability. Neither do they understand the concept of steady or dependability. No, somehow those life lessons got lost in the shuffle. Which is why I’m partially INSANE! Ha, ha. J/K.

No, seriously, I have lived in the same place for the past 9 years and I absolutely LOVE it. Unlike my mom, who has lived how many places over the past 15 years? I honestly don’t know. I’ve lost count. But when I was in highschool after my parents divorced, we moved three times in three years and she just never really did stop after that, you know what I mean? Well, my husband and I and our four beautiful children are moving in two weeks and I plan, God willing, on being there for a very, very, VERY long time!!! Praise the Lord for a stable, routine, steady, dependable home atmosphere! I love my mom, but, I just really don’t love her lifestyle, you know? :)