If you think your mom is bad, or if she's not and you want to celebrate her

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On top of that, my mother is basically awful. I gave more examples in the previous post, but basically she is a narcissitic as far as I can tell. She is obsessed with my older brother The two things I'll mention are that when he went to college, which she thought he'd never actually do even up to the day he left, she locked herself in her room to cry and 11 year old me had to cook and clean for 3 days. After I ate through all the canned soup in the house, she screamed at me for eating through our emergency rations. I felt so guilty at the time and am very angry in retrospect. Another thing is that when my brother proposed to his future wife, she insisted that she get an "engagement ring" too, commemorating her son getting engaged. She said this was normal for widows, and that my brother needed to spend more money on that ring since it didn't need to be something she'd wear daily. My brother complied, she now has said ring, and I can tell my future sister in law hates all of this

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I was very surprised to see a floor length, lacey, ivory dress in the closet. My immediate reaction was "Why would [sister-in-law] keep her dress here, their wedding is 70 miles away?" and then I realized what was going on. Knowing my mom, I shut the door, found the socks, and pretended everything was fine. The minute she went to work, I pulled out the dress.

It's a size 2. My mom is a size 2, and my brother's fiancee is a size 10 at least. It's lacey with weird sleeves (it's a gorgeous dress, I just don't know the terms), and my future sister in law was looking for a simple tea-length gown. It's DEFINITELY not hers. I ended up finding it based on the tags on BHLND, an anthropologie wedding shop. My mom ADORES Anthropologie and will spend way too much money on there. DEFINITELY her dress, just re-iterating.

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