What's on your (PHOTO) Friday Menu?

I loved loved LOVED the Stanley hotel! It's beautiful inside and the views can't be beat. Good memories from that place! Estes Park is among my most favorite places!

Beautiful pictures!

Quick post as today is SIL's Birthday and it is a significant one so our family is having a birthday party. DS is cooking surf and turf, etc. It really will be restaurant quality only at home! DSD ordered hydrangea cupcakes for dessert.

Last night we ate at a great restaurant on the harbor. It was so beautiful, breezy, and warm! Picture from our table below. I had phenomenal lobster salad and have 1-2 meals as leftovers from it.

QOTD: Good one! I am C, E, H. I used to also be K but I decided to go back to celebrating a couple of years ago. Of course this year it coincided with the blowup from covid so no big celebration was possible (mid-March) though my birthday was a significant one as well.

TSS: 4 years, 4 months

B: Coffee! WW zero point egg and banana pancake and laughing cow cheese (I just needed something else)

L: tuna and cottage cheese

D: Tuna and grilled veggies

S: probably some hydrangea cupcake...

I have a curiosity: is your SIL your brother's wife or your husband's sister? The reason I'm asking from your posts I see you spend a lot of time with her and you truly enjoy her company. So my assumption is either you are the kindest person in the world or I must be a total biotch. If god forbid something happened to DH there's no way I'll continue any relationship with his brother (he only has a brother). My brother's wife is a catty woman that is all nice in front of you but talks behind your back, so if left up to me I wouldn't choose her to have dinner with.
In short, every time I see your posts about your SIL it warms my heart that there are good people out there. Mwah!

LOL! The SIL who I spend the most time with is my DH's sister (she was his only sister). She lives 3 miles from me on Cape Cod and rents from me in Florida (we split the mortgage and utility costs for the time period when she stays there). The SIL having a birthday is DH's brother's wife. She lives 1.5 hours from here but visits us here and in Florida frequently (without her husband). We have been in the same family for 40 years, so became close friends over the years. We call ourselves BSFs (best sister friends). Our entire family is lucky in that we are all fairly close.

Such great combos, put together by family relationships but then becoming best friends. Enjoy!

I always felt bad that my husband did not get along well with his brother. They always seemed to clash. After my husband passed away his brother would stop to visit me often. Within a month I could no longer get along with his easy and stopped having him visit.

My husband and his brother do get along but have complete opposite personalities. They grew up in an abusive family, while the older one became a cold hearted person DH decided he would never be like his dad. So he is as kind and generous as his brother is cold and distant. I don't blame BIL but is not somebody I wanna hang out with.

I consider myself so lucky that my sister and I grew up to be similar at our core and not like our parents, even though We do have very different coping mechanisms.

I 100% credit our grandmother and aunts for that. I know her kids won't have the grandmother influence because my mother is the worst but I try to make sure they get everything I've learned from my aunts! Also, my sis is an amazing mom so they don't need as much external support.

My husband and brother-in-law would be friends for a while, then have some disagreement and not see each other for years. Then get together for holidays, drink too much and be mad at each other again. I never acted like that with my family. We may not always agree, but never cut each other out of our lives. I will speak to my brother in law if I run into him, but do not make plans to be with him.