Stress!

I wish my sister would communicate with her family.

I had to learn via Facebook, of all things, that apparently she's going to be stationed across the country from all of us (she has been across the country since boot camp, but we didn't know where she was going to be stationed until now), and is not going to be able to come home to see us for a couple months like she thought she would. (I was rather skeptical of that myself.) It also appears likely that she may get deployed right away. She didn't give more details on that, except that it isn't for certain.

Seriously, Sam, don't let your phone die and also not ever write! We need to know what's going on. Especially Mom.

Ugh. She's never been good at realizing what her family needs to know. :/

I'm not really that angry... Just frustrated. I'm the go-between for things like this. My family is not that great at communicating, but especially the Sam-to-family line. The rest of us communicate in a pretty broken, ridiculous way. For instance, my grandma fell several weeks ago, very badly. She scraped up her arm and her face and had to get stitches and everything. And probably the SAME day she fell, I was at my mom's house when she received a call, presumably from my aunt Gail (or perhaps Glena). I overheard Mom say, "I don't know whether to tell her now, or wait to tell the two of them together." At the time I didn't know what it was about and it drove me CRAZY for a week or two.

Then my grandpa sent out an e-mail to the entire family, with pictures of Grandma after her fall, all scraped up and awful-looking. His only words were, "Thought you be interested to see these."

I was like, "WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED?!" Actually, what I said was, "Good heavens, what happened?!"

Grandpa sent an apologetic e-mail. "I thought your auntie Gail or your mom would have told you. But Grandma is writing you a letter now so I will let her explain."

Yeah. That's my family. Good grief!

Anyway. I'm mad at Sam for not being a better communicator. But I don't know whether to confront her on it or not. :/

Life is so confusing.

-Stephanie

previous || next

Miss Something?

Social Anxiety with Guys - February 07, 2024

Education Expo with an ADHD Kid - February 03, 2024

Lovely Church Experience - October 22, 2023

Seek Out Community in Christ - August 29, 2023

Grieving Lost Friendships - May 08, 2023