She would find that perfectly acceptable
Penny
Today Leonard's mom came for a visit, and guess who had to pick her up from the airport, yep, that's right, me. Muggins here. I mean I suppose it is kind of my fault, I did offer. I was hoping that we could bond a little bit, after all, she is my mother in law. I now Leonard has spent his whole life trying to break into her shell, but this is me, if I can break Sheldon, I can break anyone. But alas, at that point it was not to be. We hadn't even gotten out of the parking lot before she started asking me about Leonard's dick, and then tried to psychoanalyse everything I was saying.
Its so annoying that she's like that. Why can't she be proud of Leonard? Everything he does is either for me or his mother. All he wants is for her to accept him and love him and give him some sort of acceptance. I don't understand why she's so nasty to him. She isn't that way with his brother and sister.
So to try and do some bonding with her, I suggested that we have a meal, just the two of us, then totally back tracked and invited Amy and Bernadette. Fortunately they came, I knew they would, and fortunately they had my back, again, I knew they would, but then Beverly started to talk about the two of them and totally diminished my achievements in the last few years. I know Amy and Bernadette didn't mean to and to give them their due, they did try and turn it back onto me, but, to top it all off, I'd had spinach in my teeth since the airport. Beverly had decided that Amy and Bernadette deserved more attention than me, her own daughter in law. She's insufferable, I tried to make a connection, but that didn't work. She was so insulting to me.
I honestly didn't think she knew what an insult was, seeing as she said she didn't mean to insult me, but she does, oh she definitely does, and I couldn't really say anything when she gave me an example. Her example was me marrying her son and not inviting here or even telling her the wedding was taking place. I had to admit that was a good example and I can understand. I tried pointing out to her that it was a spare of the moment thing and no one was invited, not even Amy and Bernadette, not even my parents, not even Sheldon. Why cant she understand that? Why doesn't she get that we just decided to do it there and then? I didn't even think she'd care, she must care about Leonard a little bit to be saying that.
She even said that she'd changed her mind about me, that she'd never seen Leonard so happy, and then said she was wrong about me, that was an amazing feeling, after all these years she finally gave me some sort of acceptance, major achievement, I really think Leonard was proud of me when I told him, and maybe slightly jealous, but what an amazing achievement.
I then suggested that we have another 'wedding', nothing legal, as that's already dealt with, we are legally married, I thought it would be nice to invite my family, our friends, Leonard's family, Sheldon's family, probably, and have a proper wedding reception and party after that. Her exact words in response to that suggestion was 'I would find that perfectly acceptable'. I couldn't believe we had bonded, I even pointed out to Amy and Bernadette that they were my witnesses and gave her a hug. That felt good too, shows we can make progress and we will make more.
Leonard
I am so proud of Penny, she totally took a win with my mother, and now I get to invite Dad to our second wedding. Can't wait. I'm so nervous though, I have no idea how this is going to go. I know Sheldon will want to bring his mom, and his mom and my mom aren't great together, I have no idea how mom is going to cope with Penny's family, oh this is going to be difficult.
Lets hope for a good weekend, this means so much to Penny, and to me, she did this for my family. To try her best to get my insufferable, possibly psychopathic, mother on her side, and she succeded, at least the first step on the path. They'll be 'besties' by the end of the year… maybe. All I need to keep thinking is…
Our babies will be smart and beautiful.