My sister and two friends arrived tonight and we had barely unpacked the car before we began laughing. I don't even remember what about now. Somehow things just seem funnier when the four of us get together.
For one thing we are very tolerant of each others foibles, and politics, and families, and anything else that gets in the way of a long and lasting friendship. Which is not to say we don't have heated conversations over all of the above. We are passionate, just not demanding.
This time we decided we should celebrate all of our birthdays right now, or at least Rose decided that. Also Rose was the only one who forgot to shop for these birthdays, which is simply Rose. She'll shop later. She did bring me a beautiful little book mark from Ireland. She and her daughter and a young man who is a friend of both hobnobbed around Europe this summer with back packs, train tickets, and lots of shoe leather.
Since it is my house, I came up with a little pink and white cake that said, "Happy Birthday To Us." We sang happy birthday to me and me and me and me, each blew out our one gold candle and took turns taking pictures. We opened the gifts that were here then Rose carefully folded up the boxes and paper in case she finds our gifts tomorrow.
We will Not iron the paper, but we will recycle. We made up the beds, turned on heaters for those who appreciate them and watched a pretty bad movie about families and relationships while we passed the pups around. It was good just to all sit together in one room, wrapped up in throws with our feet up and visit.
I explained the quirks of my house, hot water toilet, reversed faucets, don't step on the white puppy pads, etc. Barb asked how the water pressure was fixed. I explained the beauty of positive procrastination and everyone went to sleep....
except me.
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