Hey, this is Sam. This is John. The OG Storytime podcast host. Oh yeah, and we got some great stories coming up. But before that, we got a teeny two-minute break from the sponsors that keep this show propped up like a little house. Oh, yeah. This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. We planned a family trip from my mother-in-law.

Now my parents are upset.

Well, maybe you should have planned a better trip.

My husband and I used to go on the same day trip with our families as kids.

He went every year with his family in the spring and went to a bunch of other places throughout the day.

It happens to be the same place with connections my grandfather had through his whole career. And my parents took me with my grandparents in the fall. By the way, this comes from Just Say and Throwaway, and if you want to submit your own stories, go to the R slash, okay, storytime, subreddit. So we would stay at this one place and go to a museum there because my grandfather loved to tell us about it. So everyone here has a meaningful connection to the place that we went to. We are a very fortunate on both sides of our family, are very loving and involved with their kids helping out very regularly. My father-in-law passed away over a year ago and my mother-in-law has taken his loss, understandably, very hard. She has said that it is difficult to do things and go places where they used to go. My husband spontaneously decided to take the kids to go to the place they always went in the spring

and really wanted to bring his mom so she could see that life still goes on and it's good to make

new memories while remembering the time that she had with her husband.

I was torn about it because I knew my parents also wanted to go with us, but my husband

really didn't want to make it a whole party. I think in his mind, he thought that it wouldn't

have allowed his mom to process things in the way that he had hoped. We planned to take a different

special trip with them in the fall where we could really stay at that one location, visit the

museum, and my dad can share with my kids about what his dad had done. On the way there, I remembered my dad had mentioned stopping by my house today to pick something up for Easter dinner on Sunday, so I texted him and said that my husband surprised me with a day off and we were taking the kids out, and I could just stop by later. This way, he wouldn't wonder what was going on. He asked follow-up questions one at a time, which led to me explaining where we were going, which means what, Sophia? I don't know.

It means that an ICU in the chat, that is, father-in-law might crash the party.

Oh.

And this might, you know, upset husband, upset mother-in-law, trying to, you know, process.

Oh, I see it now.

I see the you now.

I tried to keep it vague, but he kept asking questions one detail at a time until he got the whole situation.

I am a truthful person and I knew that they would find out eventually

if I didn't tell them. My chatty children would have and things would have been way worse.

My dad was very upset that we would go without them and he sent several texts asking why

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