[Magdalen] Dilemma

[Grace Cangialosi]

LOL! I collect pelicans, but no, I don’t plan to emulate their self-sacrifice!

> On Nov 29, 2021, at 6:27 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Setting limits with children should end when they become adults.
> Usually.
> This one sounds like he just threw his rattle on the floor and is watching
> to see if you'll pick it up and return it to him.
> 
> So a big NO on this. You have responsibilities to guard your own health and
> the health of parishoners.
> Unless you're intent on becoming the pelican who shreds its own body to
> feed its young.
> -M
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 9:14 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Thank you for your input. I consulted my daughter about it, and she thinks
>> I’m making too much of it. She said if I’m that concerned, I might not want
>> to ervisit her in Florida. But she and the boys are fully vaccinated, and
>> if I go inside anywhere, I’ll wear a mask. Plus, I’m driving down, not
>> flying.
>> 
>> I’ll just have to bite the bullet and talk to my son about it tomorrow.
>> It’s not as simple as “my house, my rules;” this may undo our very fragile
>> new detente. His reasons are political and extend to all vaccinations of
>> any kind or any suggestion that he should wear a mask. He wouldn’t visit
>> his dad in a nursing home because he had to wear a mask.
>> But I am glad for your input—it basically supports my position.
>> 
>>> On Nov 28, 2021, at 4:00 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I had a phone call from my son this morning asking if he could bring
>> the three boys here on a Saturday in December. He has a job and can’t bring
>> them. They are 16, 10, and 8. I don’t really have much for them to do here,
>> but I figured maybe we could go out for pizza and maybe go to the community
>> park if it’s not too cold, or to a movie.
>>> But then I remembered that they aren’t vaccinated and won’t be. So I
>> won’t want to take them out for lunch or to a movie. But I’m also not
>> terribly comfortable with the idea of having them here in the house all
>> day. I left a message with my son that we need to discuss it, but I haven’t
>> heard back yet. He told me awhile ago that the whole family had COVID back
>> at the beginning, so they don’t need the vaccine, but I’ve heard that isn’t
>> necessarily true. I know there’s going to be a confrontation over this, and
>> I’d like another opinion or two. Am I overreacting? At the very least, I
>> will insist that they wear masks—he doesn’t believe in those, either.
>>