Saturday, December 13, 2008

See, that’s love...

Regular readers will remember my story a couple of weeks ago about my mother-in-law's feelings about my tattoos. (Find the post here.)

And yet, last week the wife and I received a parcel from Italy. In it were a pandoro, a panettone, a Christmas present for each of us (including Cat), a Settimana Enigmistica for Red, a copy of the latest Dylan Dog for me, and ... a tattoo magazine. She may not dig or understand tattoos, but still she went to the newsagent and got me a tattoo mag. I thought that was very sweet of her.

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13 Comments:

Blogger Red said...

She loves you, man...

13 December, 2008 13:18  
Blogger furiousBall said...

that was sweet. good on you to recognize love around you bro

13 December, 2008 13:42  
Blogger Karen said...

That is incredibly sweet. What a great mom/mother in law.

13 December, 2008 14:01  
Blogger mister anchovy said...

Very sweet indeed.

13 December, 2008 14:31  
Blogger Wandering Coyote said...

Very sweet indeed. It's nice when people surprise us like that, isn't it?

13 December, 2008 17:02  
Blogger punxxi said...

that was very cool of her! mine is in the dictionary under strega

14 December, 2008 00:55  
Blogger tweetey30 said...

She may not understand why you have them but that is love to me. My MIL is teaching me how to make home made hair ties this next weekend on our way home from MN back to WI.. Talk to you soon..

14 December, 2008 10:55  
Blogger Cynnie said...

yeah , and if you became a serial killer she'd get you some rope , pliers and a lighter..

okay ..
maybe not

But if you get a swastika tattoo'd on your forehead that poor woman will always blame herself.

14 December, 2008 16:36  
Blogger Milla said...

See? That's why I always wonder about kin and family and what those words mean...

Red's mum likes you A LOT, *Aste :)

16 December, 2008 10:19  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

She sounds like a seriously kickass mother-in-law!

16 December, 2008 16:31  
Blogger Martha Elaine Belden said...

that's so awesome!! my family still loves me, but they also still hate my tattoos.

ah well.

seriously... this made me smile :)

17 December, 2008 15:31  
Blogger Candy Minx said...

Very thoughtful...in fact...it's interesting because she totally wanted to make sure you knew she felt awkward or had thoughts about her attitude and behaviour from your previous visit.

She must have done some soul searching...maybe even talked o a friend about her feelings...and came up with the idea to give a gift that you would relate to and show she ...was accepting!

18 December, 2008 08:59  
Blogger Biddie said...

That really is sweet! She must think a lot of you, even if she will never understand about the tattoos.

19 December, 2008 04:57  

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