We’re home.
Except for Diane’s sickness almost unto death, and Brian’s early departure, it was a great visit. My mother is loving, resilient, generous, and truly an inspiring example that as one ages, one does not have to become, as Susan describes it, less crisp. And for that matter, given my father’s deft touch in the stock market at eighty-nine, he too is a shining role model.
I’m ambivalent about posting this, not because Chris wouldn’t want me to, she laughed when she related it to me, but perhaps because my duck’s back has picked up some velcro. I might add that when I repeated it to Diane, she laughed and hard, but it all ended in another round of bronchial paroxysms.
Matthew, age seven, and his older brother, Michael, were watching TV, when Michael turned to Chris and said, “ Mom, the woman in that commercial reminds me of you.”
Chris replied that she was flattered that Michael was thinking about her and comparing her to someone on TV, to which Matthew interjected, “Mom, you don’t understand. She reminds Michael of you because she’s stupid.”
Our Matthew takes his driver's test today... .
Well, I can think of another aspect of the titular Velcro allusion (which was nicely put, BTW, the anti-spin on Teflon Don) -- that being the ripping sound of Matthew's new-found automotive independence tearing away from hearth and home.......... (yes, I'm projecting a successful test).
Glad y'all are back, and glad that Family was ascendantly paramount.
Posted by unspun.Well, I can think of another aspect of the titular Velcro allusion (which was nicely put, BTW, the anti-spin on Teflon Don) -- that being the ripping sound of Matthew's new-found automotive independence tearing away from hearth and home.......... (yes, I'm projecting a successful test).
Glad y'all are back, and glad that Family was ascendantly paramount.
Posted by: unspunat February 19, 2004 09:32 AM