A little felicitous news.
    This morning I awoke my mother at 0830 to begin preparation for going to her regular Monday hair appointment at 1130 (I always give both of us plenty of time). Much to my surprise, she ambled into the bathroom carrying a clean bra. I should explain, here, that she wears a bra to bed, usually the bra she wore the previous day.
    Thinking she must have had another water shed night, I went the opposite way into her bedroom to change the sheets. They were dry.
    "Mom, did you sweat through your bra?"
    "No." She sounded and looked surprised that I'd asked.
    "Is there some reason you feel you need to change your bra immediately?"
    "Yes." My mother likes to tease me with one word answers. It always prods a smile out of me.
    "Okay, I'll bite, you've decided to astound the fashion world by wearing bra-over-bra."
    She chuckled. "I was planning on taking a bath."
    This confused me. It has been a couple of years since she's volunteered to take a bath, let alone immediately upon waking. "Uhm, okay, that's fine. You know, you usually bathe after breakfast..." I wondered if I should have bitten my tongue before saying this.
    "I think it's a good idea to bathe when I wake up."
    I believe I heard the angels sing! "Well, good! I agree with you. Would you like me to draw your bath water?"
    "Yes, thank you, that would be nice."
    Although the day has continued low key and I had to remind her a few times why she had bathed and turn her back from a nap 15 minutes before we were due to leave for her appointment, it has, overall, been active and she just announced, as I began this post, that she thinks she'd like to go out to eat.
    "Sounds good to me." So, I had intended to work on my reactions to a few issues mentioned in the article in the preceding post, but, damn, if the woman wants to go out to eat I think we'd better go!
    I'll be back later this evening. You can count on it.
- posted by gail rae @ 16:53   email...this post