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Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud

I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist

My kid asked me to go skiing so duh I said yes

January 22, 2019 by Kate Mayer 3 Comments

Ski lift at Hunter Mountain

When your grown ass kid, now all adultish with a paycheck, 401k and bills of her own, asks if you to go on a ski weekend with her you better well say yes.

So when Kid2 invited me, I didn’t hesitate: you’re goddamn right I will because those teenage years were no picnic and now I get to hang with an awesome human.

She texted – nobody calls, geesh mom – that she booked us a “sketch” hotel near Hunter Mountain in upstate New York for three nights and will I pay.

Um. No.

So instead we planned an 5am wake up call to drive 2 hours to Hunter to ski all day, crash in a “sus” hotel for one night, which means alarmingly means “suspect,” ski the second day, then drive home.

Don’t worry mom, I got this.

I worried.

Two entire days of skiing?

I’m not so sure I can handle it but if your grown-ass kid invites you, you go. So I did.

Skiing with Bloody Mary

mother daughter ski weekend

Receipt from skiing weekend

https://kathrynmayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BA8393F1-39E1-4422-AEAC-FF0D38770E6E.mp4

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Comments

  1. Sharon Leichsenring says

    February 4, 2019 at 9:28 am

    I get it. You have to say ok you’ll go and you did. Great read Kate. And kudos fir doing it, and extra kudos fir staying the path and not paying for the rooms. I would have buckled there(if only formy own comfort)!

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  2. Kathy Curto says

    February 19, 2019 at 7:25 am

    Kate,
    I need to start every day with your voice. I am laughing out loud and it’s not even 6:30am yet. Love this piece, how funny and quirky it is, but all with that quintessential in-between-the-lines love, love, love that is your trademark style.
    And, hope you are icing that sweet spot, girl.
    -Kath

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    • Kate Mayer says

      February 19, 2019 at 10:04 am

      thx woman. FYI i dreamt about YOUR MOTHER last night; her name was Kathy Curto too and she was the postmaster at the Scarsdale post-office and had signed off on a package that got lost in the mail, sent to me from my grandmother in 1964 when I was born. I saw the signature and said I had to tell you so set off trying to find you. I did take two advil PMs, but other than that … EXPLAIN THAT OH GREAT OZ … a doozy, right?

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An irreverent storyteller with a foul mouth and big heart, Kathryn Mayer (aka Kathy and/or Kate) is a writer, humorist, and (former) activist writing out loud with humor and grace about little life moments with big ripples, including the space between parenting and aging parents, social issues, angsty reflections of midlife, and, sigh, gun humpers. Still. Sometimes a big deal, sometimes not Mayer is a national award-winning columnist, according to the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and her essays have been recognized as Voice of … Read More Here...

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