MatPats

In the last year I’ve been having more and more contact with my parents. Not that I hadn’t had much contact with them before but due to various things (Dad gradually moving to the UK, neice Isobel being born, me being more transient) I seem to be seeing them more than I did. Which is cool, but due to step-parentage I’m finding there are too many syllables involved in the whole process. So from now on there’s “the Maternals” and “the Paternals”, as in “I’m visiting the Maternals this weekend”. Then for Isobel there’s the Maternal Maternals, the Maternal Paternals and the Paternal Grandparents (or maybe the Granmatmats, Granmatpats and Granpats). Trust me, if it’s not simpler it can’t make it more complicated.