Tuesday, April 26, 2016

We're Going To The Beach Soon And Thank God

This is why you have a grandmother:


Because when you are four years old and put a noodle over your nose in a restaurant, she does not say, "Stop playing with your food." She says, "Oh, let me make you a mustache with one of these carrot slivers."
And she does. 


And you hold still the way she tells you and she takes your picture and it is fun. 

It's been a hard day. Just physically hard for me. I've been exhausted and achy and all I did was go to town and have lunch with Lily and Jessie and the kids at a new Asian fusion place that was simply awful. Still, we had fun and my fortune cookie gave me the eternal wisdom that, "If winter is here, can spring be far behind?"
"Wonder how many night's sleep Buddha gave up to come up with that one?" I asked no one in particular. 

Then we went to Target and got a few things for the beach because on Sunday we are going down to St. George to stay in a rented house and all who want to come may come and Jessie and I, I believe, are going to be there for the entire week. Since there are children involved, canopies must be purchased and toys and vats of sunscreen and hats and tiny sunglasses. 

Jessie and I moved on to Old Navy where August tried on swimming suits. 


Little surfer dude with great big eyes. 
I got Jessie a few things for her upcoming birthday and then they went home, August truly ready for a nap and I still had to go to Publix and by the time I got home it was after five and I still had to take the clothes off the line, make up the bed with the clean sheets, put everything away, check on all the chickens and cut some up a few grapes very fine for all the babies, and start dinner. 
I had thawed out what I thought was ground venison to make some plain old spaghetti sauce but what I had actually thawed was venison sausage and I went on and used it anyway and it's so salty we probably need to take a gallon of water each to bed. 
Fuck it. 

The little crippled chick seems healthy but still does not want to walk on that foot. I think her entire leg may be messed up and I'm not sure what to do about it. People on the internet seem to use everything from pipe cleaners to tape to deal with these problems and I guess that tomorrow I'll do another review of the situation and go from there. 

And that is about the most stressful thing I care to deal with tomorrow. I plan on staying home and watering plants and taking a walk and not do any rushing about, driving in traffic being tailgated by assholes in Lincoln Continentals who obviously believe that going 50 in town in a 40 mph zone is ridiculous and being beeped at for taking .5 seconds to gun it when the light turns red. 

I want to yell, "I'm a fucking grandma, you asshole! Show some fucking respect!" but of course I do not and I swear to you that next week at the beach I am going to turn into a complete and utter useless human being who cooks when she wants to, walks when she wants to, sleeps when she wants to, reads when she wants to, plays with her grandchildren when she wants to and paddles about on the new float she bought at Target today when she wants to. I have always said that if sleep and the beach can't cure you, just give it up. 

This may be the vacation in which I teach Owen to make martinis. I think he can handle it. I think he's ready. And Gibson is certainly capable of spearing an olive onto a toothpick. These children need to start earning their keep. 

Love...Ms. Moon


9 comments:

  1. I'm smiling at the thought of your grandsons making you martinis :)

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  2. The thing is, those cherished boys would make your martini with all earnestness and love. Anything for Mer. The beach escape sounds like a divine plan.

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  3. Jessie was about that age when we started to teach her simple bartending, wasn't she?

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  4. The beach and the water will surely help! And teaching those boys to make martinis? Genius!!

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  5. jenny_o- It's a funny/sweet image.

    Angella- Oh, they would LOVE to make martinis. They would think that was the coolest thing ever.

    Hank- Not sure. But near the same. Remember the tip jar?

    Catrina- The beach. Sigh...

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  6. wish I was close. I could use a week at the beach being useless. back in the late 60s and early 70s when I would have friends come spend the weekend at our family beach house, all the males were very disgruntled to learn that they would not be waited on hand and foot by the women, that we were here to relax as well, and they could either cook or clean but if they didn't pitch in they would not be eating.

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  7. Ellen Abbott- You COULD use a week at the beach, woman! Yeah, I think this is going to be a very female-oriented week, i.e., not a whole lot of domestic chores going on.

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  8. A week at the beach is always good. I bet Owen could make a great martini. Gail

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  9. August is a stunner. All of your grandkids are stunners.

    Love you. It was great talking to you yesterday.

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