Posted by wendy b. on June 27, 2002, at 23:28:08
In reply to WENDELA, your hospitality overwhelms me!, posted by beardedlady on June 27, 2002, at 15:41:06
> A public thanks, sistah. We had a lovely time eating pizza, hiking the gorges, taking about Harry Potter and books and movies and life, coloring in the lines, eating campfire Rice-a-Roni, swimming, making S'mores, drinking beer, eating burgers and fried things, and shopping for Teva water socks that I didn't even get to wear swimming. (Phew! We got a lot accomplished, didn't we?)
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> I'm still dreaming of that pizza.
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> Thanks from all us Millers: beardedlady, beardedman, beardeddaughter : )>
My daughter colors inside the lines, I take that to mean I've come down too hard on her, squashed her creativity.
We discuss fine motor skills and developmentally appropriate behavior. The 4-yr old (Beardeddaughter) and the 10-yr old (WendelaDaughter). Yours was so intent on watching this in-line activity.
The way they looked at us from their picnic table, over to where we were at ours, talking loudly about the palestinians and Bush, drinking Ithaca beer, reading poems aloud, and futzing around with the broccoli-ricearoni. Their looks said: "Ah, the neurotic parents... A sight we've come to know all too well..." I made up a song about it in the shower this morning. The shit they have to put up with... Makes me wince from time to time...
Sharing the feelings about the children was the most pleasurable thing for me, amongst all the other pleasurable things... There's nothing more important than the brown-eyed girl, the blue-eyed girl.
My favorite part of the last day was being in the water with the kids and playing "Land Shark," hearing your daughter scream at my daughter "attacking" her little legs under water, and I'm saying: "I'll protect you!' And Beardeddaughter says: "No, no, don't protect me!" (i.e., I love the feeling of Lily scaring me and catching my legs under water...)We talked about meeting people face-to-face based on what we know about the person via only internet stuff. What if the other one was weird? I tell Beardy via e-mail before they arrive that I'm not a homicidal maniac, and that I can pretty much tell she ain't one neither...
Scene: Five people in the station wagon, Me driving and my kid in front, Beardy and her crew in back. Beardy says: "BeardedMan, they've got us where they want us now... Psycho-Killers!" We call Lily "Psycho-Killer Jr." (Did it in the car again today, laughing, and making clawing gestures with our hands...)
I seriously had no idea you were such a pizza junkie! Jerlando's was a hit! I'll not be able to go there with just anyone any more. When did you say you were coming back? Let's be civilized this time; the pull-out sofa sleeps a whole family of 3... And we can still hike. And I'll agree to EITHER cook OR do dishes afterwards. See, I'm reasonable.
Lily says, out of the blue today: "That Rice-a-Roni with the broccoli that they made... that was DELICIOUS!"
More funny moments later, as I think of them...Fondly,
Wendy
ps: Remember, Beardeddaughter says we can come to your house any time! and borrow the Harry Potter video. "You see, Voldemort put this lightening bolt on Harry's forehead...!"
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