Mother's Day Weekend

It's early Saturday morning and I need to get ready to go visit my mother-in-law for the weekend.  She's lives a couple hours away from me.  My husband is her only child.  We don't see her often, but given it's Mother's Day, we try to make a point of seeing her on this day, at the sacrifice of seeing my mother (but my mom is understanding about it).

Being around my mother-in-law is a trigger point for drinking.  I've always drank around her.  Why, to stifle the annoyance of being around her.  She's a tough cookie.  My husband and her have a love-hate relationship and I've always felt caught in the middle of their "issues".  It's too long of a story to explain the why, etc.  Let just say, I don't fully understand it, as my relationship with my mother is totally different.  Last time we visited her was on her birthday this past January, I did manage not to drink and that was in my early stages of trying to get sober.

While I feel strong about avoiding the "drink" around her, I'm still a bit itchy.  The only thing I can do, is not scratch the itch, right?

Happy Mother's Day to all you lovely mom's out there!