Hello!!,
It has been a long time since I posted last. Last year I was posting on this forum, (after many years lurking), when a problem came up with my "password" not valid. It was a mess. Then the forum changed and now I am Pandoras cat11, formerly Pandoras cat. I would like to combine the two but if that is not possible, than that's O.K.. Hoping to get the cute black cat avatar back up.
Anyway, since I last posted many things have occured. My family has started this strange "shaming" practice with me and the hubby. I won't get into the details as this post would be pages. I recently read here that there was a bookstudy not long ago about how to deal with disfellowshipped ones and by extentsion inactive ones. We fall in the inactive bin. If you are familiar with my past posts, our family and my husbands, go back to Rutherford. In their minds they are "spiritual pillars". Anyway, I have a problem that has just come up and would like a little advice....
The district assembly is at the end of May and my mother has told me that if me and my husband CHOOSE not to attend than she and dad feel it is important to take MY children to the weekend session. She was clear when she said the weekend because my kids are in school. My kids are 16 and 15 and really don't want to go but they love their grandparents and wish not to hurt their feelings. What to do? It should be pretty clear cut---but if anyone is dealing with this you know that it isn't. It has been a year since we have gone to a meeting and that was the memorial. We didn't go this year because we couldn't bring ourselves to attend a practice that we don't believe in. Our family is under the impression that we went----they just assumed we went. So, what can I say that is respectful and yet gets the point across? I want to avoid having a blow out, this does not help. Oh--the hubby is out of town on business and I think that is the reason why she brought this up.
Thanks, Pandoras cat