An Invitation

I've invited someone and her 2 kids over next Sunday. I really like her and this will be the third time I've invited her to visit ad she has actually come.

Is it weird she never initiates an invitation?

She's about to move pretty far away from me, so that doesn't help.

How do you go from inviting someone over with their kids to actually being friends?

The mother I texted about the accidental PETA ad showing?
She responded! It's just the text somehow never went through.
I was utterly terrified to mention it (how silly am I?) but I somehow managed to bring it up in conversation about the message and it went from there.
Looks like I had not made a terrible gaffe this time.
Maybe there is hope for me afterall!

At the end of another text-versation with another mother, I also texted that my daughter had just mentioned that her daughter's teacher had inadvertently shown her class the banned PETA Superbowl ad and that all of 5th grade was apparently aware of it and talking about it.

She never texted me back. Not even about the other conversation we were in the middle of...

Should I have not said anything?

If it was the other way around I would want to know!

My 5th grader taught me something. I hadn't even known there WAS a banned PETA Superbowl ad.

So of course I googled it. Definitely not that teacher's finest moment!!!

My daughter told me that the gift I had given her friend's mother for hosting a team get-together was thrown in the trash. Apparently it was too creepy. And I want to cry because I put so much thought into it and it hurts me that the thought wasn't even appreciated. And honestly just tell me you don't think you'll use it and give it back to me. I'd rather have it back than have it in the trash.

So the mother had talked about her difficulty with getting her cat into a carrier to go to the vet, even when he was ill and really needed to go. I felt like it was in my wheelhouse - cats are my job. I know it's not the most appealing looking thing, but a grooming mask, put on a little cat face for 2 seconds is enough to grab them and put them into a carrier. So I had got her one of those, just for emergencies! I also got her feliway spray to spritz into the carrier to calm the poor fella down on his vet visits. What is so creepy about that?

I did redeem myself somewhat apparently with 2 cat toys. But the mask and the spray were thrown in the trash. Not only that but apparently thrown away with a good case of the heebies jeebies over how creepy they were.

I'm sorry for trying. No-one else bought a hostess gift.

You're either reading this thinking OMG no wonder she has no friends, or maybe a few of you out there can relate, I don't know. You tell me.

Creepy Gift