dual personalities

The tiger lilies are still blooming at home

How was your weekend? Mine was quite delightful, especially since daughter #1 was in town unexpectedly. She had to be in St. Louis for work on Friday so she stayed over Friday night.  On Saturday we estate-saled, lunched out at our favorite lunch place (and my mother’s favorite), the Women’s Exchange, went to the Sign of the Arrow (needlepoint store) and generally did our old-lady thing. It was great. It was too darn hot to do anything outside, so we stayed inside and went through some stuff in the basement, looking for other stuff in the basement, which we never found.

That evening we got the OM to take us out to dinner at our local Mexican restaurant at the old-lady hour of 5:00 pm–the place to our surprise was hoppin’! I guess everyone in town wanted a margarita! In the evening we chilled and listened to 1990s country music.

In the morning, daughter #1 headed back to mid-MO bright and early and I set about doing what I had planned to do, i.e. clean the house, do laundry and change sheets in preparation for visitors during the week.

Daughter #2 called and told me all about her weekend with my friend Harriet in Norfolk, Virginia. She had so much fun visiting in March that she went back with DN!

Sunday was the first anniversary of her marriage to DN. We reminisced a little and were grateful that it wasn’t as hot last year as it is this year!

The wee babes came over on Sunday night and messed up a lot of what I had put right during the day. But, truly, life is too short to care about that.

They weren’t terribly interested in the like-new, handmade Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls I bought at an estate sale on Saturday.

But that’s okay too.

Lottie liked her cherry hat and would have worn it all night if the wee laddie hadn’t insisted on trying it on. (He took it right off.) We go with the flow.

So remember, it’s a great day to be alive…Have a good one!

*Travis Tritt