I hope you count me among those who do not hate Carol!
I'm delighted to hear that Miles is so near, if only for another month or so. It's not winter in Iowa yet?
Yes, psychology has done us great harm, has eroded our self-reliance and made us, nearly all, into victims who feel our traumas have nothing to do with our own acts, and are out of our control. That we need government to pass laws protecting our feelings. It's astonishing! The recent, and very sudden, erosion of male and female (way to go women's lib - now that men can be bonifide women, we biological women are nothing) sends this all into surreal, so that being human is at risk, Say no!! To a great many things!!
How old are your grandchildren now? I suppose Claire and Webb will get their own comeuppance someday, when their children will be speaking to you and Tim (yes you got a great hubby!) and not to them. I wonder if they will still blame you, even as their children do to them what they have done to you. It's gonna happen, they have trained your grandchildren how. That this is so common now (I didn't know!) shows that the family unit is being deliberately dismantled, ala Handmaid's Tale and other faves of the leftist zombie mind.
I'm in Nashville. Both daughters and their beaus will be here, along with one of their large (in several meanings of the word large) in-law family, and a couple of friends. It's gonna be close to 20! My Thanksgiving dinners have been very small the past ten years or more, so I'm really looking forward to it.
I love you!!! Happy Turkey day!