a day in the life
Posted By Sherry on May 19, 2008
Yesterday we gathered once again for the season finale of our monthly family dinners. Pete and Linsey showed up a little early to throw together their salad and to see themselves on Monday’s Today Show, which we had recorded for them after Lins e-mailed that they were 90% sure they were in the background of an interview with the US women’s soccer team.
That was to be Pete’s show ‘n’ tell, but he and Lins had lots more stories to tell from their whirlwind adventure to Philadelphia, New York City, and Cape Cod last week. John and Erin had pictures and stories too, as they had made a similar whirlwind visit to the East Coast. (I’ll include those in a future post, once they pass them along to me.)
This report needs to include Mauri’s show ‘n’ tell. He enlisted Pete’s help without telling Pete what would be expected of him. I won’t try to guess what Pete might have been thinking as he watched his pop with my nail scissors clipping the stitches from his knee surgery.
Pete’s job was to pull them out.
I know Mauri was well aware he chose the least appropriate candidate for that job. But Pete stayed on task…well, for the first one anyway.
While all this happened, the rest of us moaned and laughed but were anything but surprised that Mauri would choose this for his show ‘n’ tell. Wait. Did I say the rest of us? One exception: Cousin Wendy, married one year to Cousin Craig. Without a shred of subtlety she leaned to Craig and said, “Your family is weird!” I gently patted Wendy’s knee and reminded her that we are her family.
MomEdna celebrated 89 years today! Once yesterday…
…and again today.
You need to read my ‘meme’ blog-you have an assignment to do young lady!