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WEEKEND OUTLOOK March I im Page Seniors Accepting seniors status The trouble with being a senior is that it takes a while to realize that one is a senior I mean the day after our 60th birthday or according to Ottawa we dont feel any differently than we did the week before It is only when going somewhere like On tario Place with son and his ly and as hes buying the en trance tickets he calls out Hey Mom you and the under get in at half price that it hits me Indeed I dont know If I like be ing equaled with the under Then when shopping at a store when it just happens to be seniors day and the cashier says seniors discount not as a question but as a fact I struggle with the idea of hotly disclaiming that I am a senior worse still look like one or gaining the 15 This past Christmas for the first time in over years did not have the family Christinas dinner at our house Years ago it started out with five or six peo ple but over the years it has grown to a host of over twenty in cluding inlaws outlaws grand children etc So when Daughter asked us to her home this year I was quite agreeable But a few moments after our arrival on THE day I felt just like the grandmother sitting in the rocking chair nor exactly the comer but definitely out of action The little ones brought their books for me to read I ad mired the new dolls and com games but my offers of help were tactfully refused well I did bring the plum pudding and their favorite sauce As we were leaving to come home I found myself rejecting this passive role and blurted out Why dont you all come to din ner at our bouse tomorrow night Of course my partner was annoyed with me on the way borne he enjoys the passive role and knew hed be roped in to help me But it was quite simple really I made a huge pot of stew without the vegetables threw in a cupful of red wine and called it beef and have you tried those ready made spicy noodles yet A couple of loaves of crusty bread and a large tossed salad and voilal I would prove that I could still cope This started me thinking of din at my mother inlaws We didnt go often but it was understood that we always go on the Sunday between Christmas and New Years Day and dinner was at one oclock in the after noon For me it started early in the morning First I had to get the children bathed and dressed the four boys in their grey flan white shirt and tie and daughter in her Sunday best Our youngest hadnt arrived on the scene yet Then time for a pep talk and dire warnings if they didnt behave It took an hour to get there and as soon as our outside clothes were remov ed we crowded into the parlour In this small room was a three- piece chesterfield a large GIC RATE Rate Subject To Chang Without Notice CONCEPTS St SAME DAY TAX RETURNS SI 8772217 upright piano and a giant aspidistra plant blotting out the light from the narrow window On the wall was a fully framed trait of Uncle who had died in W I My mother inlaw was a beautiful cook and as we all sat around the dining room table we thoroughly enjoyed the turkey dinner she had prepared After dinner I found it a strain Grandfather always had a nap after his Sunday dinner and as my husband was in his mothers house he felt so comfortable that he followed suit This left Grand ma and me to do the dishes while I kept shushing the children and telling them to sit still I had been taught that it was very rude to eat and run so after the dishes were done I would sit for a while talk ing to Grandma with an eye on the restless boys Then just as I would announce that we should be going Grandfather would come in expecting his cup of tea We would be coaxed to stay for a cup and a bit of supper which turned out to be another meal of cold cuts cheeses mince tarts etc Although I enjoyed it it was still a strain making sure that the children didnt tease the dog or knock over the fern stand It is only since Ive been a grand mother myself that I realize it probably was a strain for my mother inlaw too and Im quite sure now that she must have breathed a sigh of relief when we said goodbye However I like to think Im a little smarter When I have the nearby families over I have dm ner at six and by the time weve eaten and the children have had a few games of hideand seek coming out from under the beds covered In dust balls no grey flannels and white shirts here the mothers say that they must be going as it will be bedtime soon I am quite happy to say goodbye until the next time and if it werent for the disturbing news we hear constantly just now I would say that we live in a more relaxed way Great values on great new Home Theatreproducts with great features make this the event of the season RCA RIMOTE CONTROL COLOUR TV ChonnaLock Keyboard Control Frvquwcy Tuning HI Con RCA COLORTRAK TABLE MODEL RECEIVER SPECIAL Thl VT Tabt ho following Control Prompt and Dhplayi RCA XL100 REM CONT CONSOLE RECEIVERS Model features a traditional styling with ILHLjiIIH Traditional Oak finish Model The con tern styling of this XL con 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