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Posted on November 26, 2007
Filed Under suburban joys, snark, bat-ass crazy, holiday fun |

We have had house guests. Oh, okay, I have had house guests and the other people that live here have merely enjoyed the additional meals and exceptional fussing that comes with my having company. For everyone else it was just another long weekend save for the five course meal on Thursday and the addition of pumpkin bread at Friday morning breakfast. I call my immediate family, My Better Half and our offspring, the Walk-Ons. They amble in to celebrate and eat and belch and leave dirty napkins and crumbs on their chairs.

As far as company goes, it was, in some ways, a benign variety. My brother and his son have little expectation. They rent a one bedroom apartment in a decrepit old house. They share bunk beds. A forty-two year old man on the top and a five year old boy on the bottom. They eat a lot of peanut butter and jelly while listening to their immediate neighbor, a graying, psyhcotic crack addict, wandering the sidewalks in her bathrobe mumbling profanities and scolding God. But I still felt compelled to finish painting the dining room and make homemade pies and clean bathrooms before their arrival.

My Better Half muttered some unkind observation about my Really Pulling Out All the Stops for my clinically insane brother’s visit. My running the vacuum and washing the dog nose smudges off the storm doors really incites his disdain. It’s his way of saying I should be out earning an income in order to pay someone else to clean our glass surfaces.

I ran into a friend while leaving the supermarket on Wednesday. We exchanged the usual pleasantries about our Thanksgiving plans. I mentioned that our holiday should be quiet save for the fact that my crazy brother would be with us for days. I shrugged my shoulders and said, “It’s always interesting.” And she replied, “Oh I know, my sister-in-law’s a nut too,” as if we shared this unfortunate thing, this secret familial shame. And I could tell she was talking about a version of crazy that didn’t hold a candle to my version. Not that it’s a pissing contest. But I feel sure that she didn’t mean ‘crazy’ like institutionally insane. I suspect her ‘crazy’ wears seasonally decorated sweaters and uses the word slacks. Of course, I didn’t ask her to define her crazy and I just moved on,with my grocery cart full of provisions, turkey, whole cranberries in a bag, a loaf of french bread and green apples for the stuffing, hurrying home to box up all the alcohol in the house and clear the medicine cabinets, hiding all controlled substances in a box in the basement.

I had already done a lot of the mental preparation for the arrival of my ‘crazy’. The previous Sunday, while adding the finishing touches of Westminster Gold above the door jambs, I was remembering our family therapy sessions that began when my brother was institutionalized for the first time. I remembered that my mother wept and the rest of us sat around feeling awkward and abandoned. She did not cry as she struggled to terms with the diagnosis of her oldest son, who at eighteen had been declared an Obsessive Compulsive, Manic Depressive with substance abuse problems, nor did she weep for her middle child, who, at sixteen, had practically moved in with his girl friend’s family and only came home on the occasional weeknight to do laundry, nor did she suffer even a little over her ten year old daughter, who was smoking at the bus stop and stealing beers from the refrigerator.

Instead, she wept and moaned and railed against us because after a long day’s work she would come home to a sink full of dishes and a family room littered with dirty shoes and discarded sweaters and candy bar wrappers and pet hair. We spent hour after expensive hour listening to her lament the life she now led - professional by day, house maid and cook by night. She squeezed out angry tears. She spewed frustration and regret. This was not the surge of liberation, the gush of pride and independence that Gloria Steinem had promised her. Each and every Sunday, after hosting open houses and hopefully ushering out-of-town clients from one potential home purchase to another, she would walk through the door and feel the urge to shoot herself.

The licensed psychologist hired to shepherd us through the narrow passage of life with mental illness spent the hours tamping down his pipe, relighting it, drifting in and out of sleep. He was quietly nonchalant, allowing us to drift from one undisciplined battle about household chores to another. Our version of Sigmund Freud let us squabble about replacing the cap on the toothpaste and un-balling our socks before pitching them into the hamper as if this was the type of discord he’d expected.

A month later, the three of us, mounted an opposition to group therapy and refused to attend. My mother continued to visit the psychologist by herself. She began to leave notes on the bathroom and kitchen counters and on the top of the toilet, “Please don’t rush, remember to flush; A cap on the toothpaste saves waste.” We ignored the notes, eventually they became just part of the decor, sea foam green linoleum and messages about removing pubic hairs from the soap.

When my brother arrived late Wednesday afternoon, I made tea while he inspected the dining room. “I think you need another coat in here,” he called to me. And I winced, having just rolled up the tarps and replaced the furniture. I knew he was right but had convinced myself that no one but me would notice the patchy bits of white showing through in spots.

While we pressed our tea bags with the back of our spoons, attending to the ritual of steeping as if it satisifed us in the same way as cracking a beer or pouring a glass of wine would have, I asked him what he remembered about those early therapy sessions. And he remembered them just as I had. But he had more detail, a more fluent memory of the time. It was comfortable now, to sit at my kitchen counter and remember my mother as the crazy one. It must have been comfortable then too, a welcome diversion, something we could fix.

After finishing his tea, my brother excused himself to use the bathroom and take a nap. I could hear him brushing his teeth. The drone of the electric toothbrush went on for several minutes. It was the third time he had brushed his teeth since his arrival only an hour before. I rushed to the bedroom he’d be using to remove the decorative pillow shams and beige linen spread. I stuffed the expensive linens in the closet and replaced them with an old quilt we use to cover the furniture when the kids have the stomach bug.

My brother entered the room and promptly lay down on top of the old quilt and closed his eyes, his steel tipped boots poking over the end of the bed. I returned to the kitchen to rinse our tea cups and start dinner. And I whispered, “You’re welcome, Mom.”

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12 Responses to “My ‘Crazy’”

  1. slouching mom on November 26th, 2007 12:09 pm

    This made me sit up with recognition of our own family dramas, with a surprisingly similar-sounding therapist, who observed my overwrought mom, my angry, angry older brother, and me, tracing circles into the therapist’s Oriental rug and wondering why I had to be there. (Once the therapist gazed at me, and said, “Still waters run deep.” I started giggling and couldn’t stop.)

    And he, too, smoked a pipe.

    And did not one effing thing for our family.

    This was a very moving post, babe.

  2. FENICLE on November 26th, 2007 3:07 pm

    I’m sorry this made me laugh. It was a very touching post on the reality of family life and the differing levels of craziness we all experience with our relatives.

    Please tell me your mom did not leave post-it-notes about removing your pubic hairs from the soap!

    Awesome post!!!

  3. Ron Davison on November 26th, 2007 4:23 pm

    Oh my, he said as he settled down to tea. I thought that Habeas was interesting.

    cce, you’re brave enough to be honest. Attention cuts through your prose like butter. I forget. What else is there to great writing?

    We have a friend with OCD - what a private hell that’s been. How wonderful of you to inject some holiday into his world. It’s likely to be one of the more vividly warm memories your nephew has of his childhood, a great gift to him if nothing else.

  4. cce on November 26th, 2007 5:48 pm

    Ron, I hope you’re right about the memories my nephew will have. There’s so little that’s normal in his life. I hope he’ll remember being with us as a respite from the circus that is his daily life with my brother.

  5. Mizmell on November 26th, 2007 10:37 pm

    Gracious! You must be from the south, because we southerners all have families like that. How brave of you to put your cards on the table. (I think we have the same deck).

  6. Moshizzle on November 27th, 2007 2:21 am

    What is it with moms? My whole life I’ve flip-flopped between ambivalent and terrified to have kids in case I have daughters. The rest of my family is also bat-ass crazy (love that, by the way) but nobody makes me *$%&#@! like my mother.

  7. WildKid on November 27th, 2007 5:30 am

    Really good and really interesting post. I expect (and other readers maybe :) ) new useful posts from you!
    Good luck and successes in blogging!

  8. cce on November 27th, 2007 8:35 am

    Mizmell, we’re actually so not Southern. I suspect that all regions harbor familial disfunction.

    Moshizzle, daughters are wonderful, at least when they’re small and cooperative and I actually have a pretty okay relationship with my Mom now that I’m old enough to recognize her frailties and see them developing in myself.

    Slouchy, I’m almost sorry this struck a chord with you. But misery loves company, so I’m pleased.

    Fenicle, okay, so I exaggerate about the pubic hair note but they were almost as bad as all that.

  9. Mrs. Chicken on November 27th, 2007 8:58 pm

    The clarity of this post was incredible. Very honest and moving.

  10. chesca (exskindiver) on November 28th, 2007 8:02 pm

    cc,
    this is such a great post.
    you have spoken to all of us, and i mean all of us who suffer/suffered some sort of familial dysfunction.
    you touch on today without apologies nor without drama either.
    just shrugged honesty that is both entertaining and inspiring.
    you are definitely someone i would love to meet one day.

  11. Dorothy Stahlnecker on November 29th, 2007 10:45 pm

    This is a great post, it goes with my interpretation of depression I see in two close family members. I wish you health and happiness. You are a brave and strong lady. Fenicle sent me here, I bookmarked and will be back.. Here’s one for life is stranger then fiction.. My best to you…

    Dorothy from grammology
    call your gram

    http://grammology.com

  12. edj on December 4th, 2007 1:33 am

    Great post.

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