oldhickory
Sitting For The Arnolds
Heather Loves Boys and Gym
Posts: 3,263
|
Post by oldhickory on Jul 17, 2011 12:22:13 GMT -5
I haven't read this book yet but it would be interesting to see what happened the NEXT month on Father's Day when Karen and Andrew would be at the little house.... ... would Lisa make the kids stay home too?! i don't see lisa being vindictive enough to keep karen and andrew home JUST BECAUSE watson did, but i could see her doing it because the precedent has been set and they have to keep their parenting consistent.
|
|
|
Post by virgoscorpio on Jul 17, 2011 16:17:27 GMT -5
I can see Lisa perhaps doing it early in the LS series, but not in the middle/end (if that makes sense). Think: Karen's Birthday.
|
|
|
Post by Honeybee on Oct 15, 2012 14:57:00 GMT -5
I agreed, Karen was brat in this book. Waston was jerk in this book. He should let Karen & Andrew see their mother on Mother's Day. Elizabeth just their step-mother.
The racing sounded like fun. I wish, our old neighborhood the ids did something like go-cart racing. But, they never did.
On the picture cover. The picture of the background. I love it. I wonder, if that's a real painting/picture in real life?
|
|
|
Post by virgoscorpio on Oct 15, 2012 15:30:59 GMT -5
It's a very complicated situation, I guess. Although Elizabeth did have her own (biological) children around on Mother's Day, so it wasn't exactly like she was missing out entirely. I think that Watson and Lisa should have made a plan where Karen and Andrew visited them on Mother's or Father's Day, regardless of which house they're in. This would leave out Seth and Elizabeth, but hopefully they would be understanding (which I'm sure they would be).
|
|
|
Post by zoar3 on May 20, 2013 21:52:09 GMT -5
I just re-read and wanted to give Lisa a hug. Seth is my favorite hands down of Karen's 4 parents. I am not fan of Elizabeth, most of the time. Watson was a complete jerk in this book and Lisa, you're right Sparklymouse she did get a tad over emotional. However, she seemed so genuinely happy to spend Saturday with Andrew and Karen. She also seemed to love the surprise of getting to be with them on Sunday. I was so mad at Watson for making Sunday about what Karen did (and she was definitely very rude to Elizabeth) instead of her relationship with her mom, he could have been a bigger person and put that aside. That wasn't cool particuarly on Mother's Day. He should be thankful Karen had Lisa who very much loved her and was an active part of her life. And that Karen also had Elizabeth, who outside of this book, probably really was a good person to A and K, too. Maybe this book hits a little closer home because Mother's Day just passed and my own wishes for what this MD could and in my heart should have been. The go cart subplot was all right. I did much prefer reading about go carts in "Abby and the Notorious Neighbor." Oh, it was sweet of Elizabeth to make up stories about Dallas and Hoover. I wish we had gotten to read about E telling Andrew about Dallas. Do the two of them--A and E--ever hang out together? I just thought of that. I wonder how Andrew feels about her. Anyway before this post feels and gets much longer I will hit reply!
|
|
|
Post by virgoscorpio on May 20, 2013 23:16:03 GMT -5
^ I feel that Andrew and Elizabeth would get along very well. Andrew seems to like the female/motherly figures.
|
|
|
Post by sillybillygoogoo on Jul 30, 2013 14:12:12 GMT -5
Karen giving Elizabeth dead roses was kind of bizarre, in a 2nd-grade-sociopath kind of way, but it's one of my favorite parts of this book. Watson was a jerk to not let Karen spend the real Mother's Day with her mom.
|
|
supprazz
Sitting For The Newtons
Posts: 2,106
|
Post by supprazz on Sept 8, 2013 23:58:58 GMT -5
^ lisa should have really stepped in for that, not out of greed, but just for being cruel
and yeah I agree it's creepy what karen did though it was cause nobody listens to her and I can't exactly blame her for lashing out
|
|
LadyDru
Sitter-In-Training
Posts: 373
|
Post by LadyDru on Sept 17, 2017 18:49:35 GMT -5
Karen was definitely bratty on Mother's Day though I kind of understood why she thought the punishment was unfair..also thought it was OOC for her to forget to make her bed and keep the room clean when she generally was good at those in previous books.
|
|
|
Post by sparklymouse on Apr 22, 2022 12:56:50 GMT -5
Karen was reading Howliday Inn at the beginning of this. I remember reading Bunnicula and those books.
It was cute that Elizabeth made up her own bedtime stories. Two of them, no less. I think I would have liked the chipmunk one more than the acorn one. What if the two stories merged with Dallas the chipmunk eating Hoover the acorn and absorbing its magical powers? Then she could have a third story about a magical chipmunk.
Watson looked through a magazine, saw a random merry go round cake, and thought his wife and mother-in-law needed it for Mother's Day.
I understand where Karen was coming from with the Elizabeth "suggestions". You start to feel like you're doing nothing right when someone is over your shoulder correcting you. Karen was super lazy, though. She didn't leave her little house room messy, and she never acted like that on big house weekends before.
I learned something new. David Michael was going to be a Winkie in a Wizard of Oz play at school. A Winkie was one of the Wicked Witch's guards who hung out with the flying monkeys. I didn't know they had names. Now I wonder why you never see a Winkie costume in group Halloween costumes. They're pretty cool looking.
I don't think Nannie had one speaking line in this which was very strange. Usually she would be the advice giver who smoothed everything over.
|
|
livvy
Sitter-In-Training
Posts: 394
|
Post by livvy on Nov 27, 2022 0:29:14 GMT -5
Watson really made me angry in this one. Elizabeth isn't even Karen's mother, she has her own mother! I don't blame Karen for acting up. I would have done the same if someone forced me to spend Mother's Day with my stepmother (I actually do have a stepmother and I do not get along with her) instead of my own mother would make me furious.
|
|