Apparently, my entire family is just insane.... Anyway, my mother and I resolved our differences. I am so relieved. Our family is totally weird, but we got through the trip, and made it back home. I suppose the lesson here is that family relationships can survive and endure, even when it seems like everything is falling apart.

Having said that, I will add that I am super irritated with my extended family because someone left a ten pound bag of calf-milk replacer in my grandparents' house for six years and I had to clean it up because everyone else was too afraid. For those of you who don't know what calf-milk replacer is, consider yourselves very, very lucky. There was a gas mask involved. Seriously.

Despite the challenges, I am grateful to have an extended family, albeit a very dysfunctional one.

I am also *very* grateful that psych central exists!!