Gifted

My moon is definitely in Mermaid right now. 

Is that Maggie Mermaid or what? 

Last week, Linda Sue alerted me to the fact that there was a package coming, probably today, and to be very careful opening it. 
My heart has been aflutter ever since. 
On my way to town this morning I stopped at the Post Office to see if this package was in yet and it was. In our little PO, if you have a package that won't fit into your letter box, they put a slip in your box that you give to the postal clerk and they find and bring you your package. This is what happened today. Ms. Keisha, who continues to be so very sweet and so very cheerful, went into the dark recesses of her office and found the box which Linda Sue had promised was coming and handed it to me. We chatted for a moment and she said she hoped I was going to have a nice day and I said that I was as I was going to go eat lunch with two of my daughters and she said, "Well, have fun with your beautiful daughters!" as I left and I don't know why but that "beautiful" in there just made my heart so happy. 

Yes. I had lunch with Jessie and Lily today. They could not come to get pedicures on Monday with May and me but they could go together today. I knew they'd been thinking about doing this and I selfishly asked if they would mind if I could join them for lunch afterwards if they were going to do that. And what were they going to say? 
"Oh hell no, Mom. We don't want you there." 
No. They would not and they did not and graciously said they would be happy for me to come meet them so I did. I stopped at Publix first to get the things I forgot two days ago and then met them at Japanica! for delicious Bento Box lunches. The food there continues to be very good and today's green curry tofu was especially delicious for some reason. It's different every time depending on what sort of vegetables they have. 

I have to tell you that my kids can make me laugh like no one else. I'm sure I've only said this about ten thousand times. But they do. They make me feel both old and young at the same time. Not old in a bad way but old in a way that's somehow respectful. Like they never forget I'm their mother but they treat me like a mother whom they definitely do not need to tiptoe around or watch their language with (haha!) or protect from the realities of their lives. In fact, I feel like my relationship with all my kids is the kind of relationship I so wish I had had with my mother and never did. And it is the joy of my life. 

Jessie had an appointment with Dr. Zorn (she's joined most of the rest of us in the Dr. Zorn Fan Club) and Lily and I went to The Bad Girls Get Saved By Jesus Thrift Store as an outing. Lauren had dropped Lily off at the pedicure place and I'd promised to take her home so that was nice. We didn't find any furniture we wanted although they had some interesting things including two oak tables for $45 apiece that would be gorgeous if they were refinished. But neither of us needed a new oak table. We both found a few treasures though. Lily mostly in the crafts section where she bought some kits and other fun stuff and I got a sofa pillow-sized pillow of feathers and down that I want to cover with some material I have, a sofa pillow already covered in a print that I like, and two beautiful bowls to add to my collection of mismatched china that I love. 

A creamer also came with the bowls and I guess I could put a little succulent in it or something. But I really did want the bowls as I am a complete sucker for bowls and love this pattern. I have some plates that I bought YEARS ago at the same store that have a similar pattern, same company, and still use. 

The pillows are in the wash and the china is in the dishwasher and I just feel like it's Christmas around here. 

So I have seen all of my children in the last week and I saw Owen today when I took his mama home. "High school still good?" I asked him. 

"Yeah, it's going good. It's pretty easy so far."
And he told me to tell his Boppy he loves him and of course I did. 

The library was on my way home so I stopped there and all-in-all, I did get things done and now I must make egg rolls. On my trip to Publix on Monday I bought egg roll wrappers and tofu but completely forgot to get the vegetables I needed for them. That situation has been remedied so I need to get wokkin' and rollin'. 
Oh my god. Shoot me now. I apologize. That was horrible. 

You know what wasn't horrible?

This.

My god I love that man. And I love his wife. I cannot believe that I was born at a time when not only the Beatles and the Rolling Stones got their start, I was here when Barack Obama and Michelle Obama and her mother and their two daughters lived in the White House. 

Once again- lucky me.

Love...Ms. Moon