Yesterday I was conducting interviews with my team leader (I'm a Mary Kay consultant) and one of the persons we interviewed was my mother. My team leader, Tiffany, asked my mother if being a consultant was something that she wanted to do. My mother replied that at this moment she did not have the time to do so because of family obligations and becasue she was working on building her faith (not the way she actually said it but if you've ever been on the inside I'd bet you could imagine what she said).
So I sit here and ponder how I have to interact with my mother and father (from what I hear from my mom dad has a personal book study with one of the elders going on). Early June my family will hop on a plane out to California for 2 fun filled weeks. We will be staying with my parents. If I could afford to I would stay elsewhere but they really want to see the kids. I know for those 2 weeks I will be walking on eggshells. I don't want to talk about religious matters with my parents...don't see a point to it, but I know that during sometime in those two weeks one of my parents or both will want to talk about it. And they will feel every right to do so since it's their home but I just don't want to go there. I am willing to not talk about my beliefs to keep the peace and be respectful towards my parents beliefs but I'm so sure it's gonna be onesided. Hopefully just having my husband, my kids, and my sister and brother (who are not jws too) there will deflect some of what is going to happen.
I'm going to wear my pretty little pink cross, keep a stiff upper lip, and pray.
Josie