Weather seems to be really more insistent these days, doesn't it? I am nervous about a cousin in Wisconsin and my son's in laws in Minnesota. I was speaking with my cousin yesterday on the phone when she said the alerts were being sounded so she needed to say good bye. I will find out later this morning if it was just alarms - crazy weather!
Well, I KNOW you are all just waiting with baited breath to hear about our PJ party the other night. We had a blast. You know, I couldn't always say in my lifetime that I have enjoyed my Mom's company. She has always said she was a serious person. That does not equate to fun. Trust me. I spent many, many, MANY nights when my one Granny who was into having a good time. She is the one who taught me to quilt, crochet, garden, identify wild flowers (which are weeds to some), really laugh at myself, and etc. I came to a point in the past few years of caregiving to try and give this attitude of a life well lived so you may as well laugh now to my Mom. Daddy never needed to learn that, since it was his Mom who would giggle with me.
So, sis and I armed with DVD's, an old laptop, and our sense of humor pretty much kept Mom up all night long. We looked through ancient photograph albums, whose residents predated my grandparents a bit. We tried to match these oldsters to some of the geneology we have done. I got Mom giggling as I made up my own stories about these people with the huge hats long before Prince Wm and Kate's wedding. Oh wait! That was hair, not hats! And we discovered that women on both sides of the family were always busty. We told Mom, she must have been adopted . . . I perservered and got to watch my Topper movies, Mom had made some whoopie pies before we got there and Luscious called me twice telling me how much Gracie missed me. I twisted his arm and he brought himself and Gracie down to finish watching Topper Returns and sleep in Daddy's bed. Yesterday was a fun day. I like fun and make sure that each day has some in it. Even if it means finding humor in discovering a family of mice had made a home in my old vacuum. I never knew that my husband knew the Mexican Hat Dance.
Okay, girlies, The rain seems to have stopped, I have taken Gracie outside, the coffee is almost finished perking down and I think I could go lie back down. Good grief! But wait!!!!!!! It is time for Luscious Larry to wake up. And so my day will really begin.
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