Saturday ramblings...warm weather...old ladies...family reunions...

Well, I really did nothing yesterday.  I've done a bit this morning, and am getting ready to head out to the bank and to do my grocery shopping.  I can't believe how warm it is!  It almost hit 70 yesterday!  Are we ever going to have any real winter?  I think Colorado is taking all of our snow; someone needs to look into that.

Last month my mother turned 83.  She is such a happy, spry old bird!  Don't worry, she doesn't mind if I call her that!  She had all of her annual exams last month and came home with a very good bill of health.  My oldest sister, Dee, turns 59 this month.  She's a pretty happy, spry old bird, herself!

Dee's oldest daughter, Sheila, and her family were the ones who had come up from Florida for the holidays last month.  Sheila is only three years younger than I am, so she and I grew up very close to one another, almost like sisters.  She is married to a very nice man (two days older than I am), her older daughter is four months younger than Andrew, and her younger daughter is two months younger than Eler Beth.  It's funny because Andrew and S are, and have always been, so much alike in personality and character and actions, while Eler Beth and the younger daughter, T, have always been just alike too.

Whenever someone in the family would call to tell one of us that there was a new baby expected in the family, I would immediately say, "It's not Sheila, is it?", and she would say, "It's not Lori, is it?"  We figured it would be a bad sign for the other one if one of us were pregnant again!

The younger daughter T is my little IM buddy.  She is so funny; and she will talk your head off (in person or on IM) just like Eler Beth.  Eler Beth spent the whole week with T, and the two were inseparable.  That was kind of funny because they hadn't actually seen each other since they were about 5 years old, and then only briefly, but they've gotten to know each other well over the internet and have so much in common.

We had fun reminiscing and freaking out the kids with some stories they hadn't heard before.  Sheila surprised me with one I'd never heard before that I'm going to share here, because it's too good not to.  When my nieces and nephews were little kids, there was practically nothing that any of the boys could do that Sheila couldn't do.  And she used this power particularly well to torment the cousin two years younger than her, the boy closest to her in age who lived nearby, my nephew Brad.  Brad, apparently, had taken all the one-upping he could manage off of Sheila one day because after she'd proved her dominance in several areas he stood up and yelled, "Yeah?  Well, you can't stand up to pee!"

Sheila said that just infuriated her so much because it was irrefutable.  She just hated that he had that one thing on her.  (Later she admitted that she did at least try it, just to make sure he was right!)

Gotta go.  More stories later.

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