Let me first start my story by backing up to yesterday afternoon.....I came home from work for lunch, pondering what we were going to serve for dinner. This would be my first time meeting my
tattooed mechanics son new girlfriend. I already picked up on the vibe...this wasn't just anyone, so when I mentioned on a telephone conversation with him that Dan-the-Man wanted to grill out hamburgers, I immediately picked up on that this was not okay from the son.
Being the
mischievous Mum
that I am, I couldn't resist torturing him, and sent son a text message in the afternoon something like this...."Dan said we'll do tacos instead of hamburgers".
Fast forward to 5:35pm. I'm out in the kitchen feverishly working peeling and coring apples for apple crumb pie. I
nervously keep glancing around the corner out the window to see if anyone has
arrived. My son shows up first, as they agreed to meet at the house since she was just getting out of school. (BTW she's graduating in May with a MASTERS DEGREE in teaching).
He's watching Mum work at the speed of a hummingbird who just discovered a new pitcher of red sugar water has been hung. The son starts picking up on my vibe "Mum....your making me nervous...quit it!" I'm chopping
Roma tomatoes and basil for the
crostini appetizer I'm making, trying to beat all
odds that I can get the last of the goat cheese out of the impossible packaging it's in. Dan-the-man announces "SHE'S HERE!!!!", and the son is at the front door in 1/32
th of a
nano second to greet her. Possibly less time than that....
Introductions occur, and I
instantly like her. You know when you mentally start visualizing what someone is going to be like, even start imaging what they are going to look like...well EVERYTHING was so much more wonderful than that. Beautiful face, gorgeous smile, cute voice, and gushing with warmth. I felt warm and fuzzy all the way down to my toes. We easily fell into conversation like this was our 300
th time seeing each other. A half hour must have passed with talking when I realize maybe I
should include my son in part of the conversation.
That being said, you have to
understand my son. He is Jim Carey reincarnated in a second body on earth, with a slightly different twist. He has a personality that's large enough to entertain a room of 40 people, and loves it best when everyone is laughing until tears are streaming down your face. I wanted my mascara to stay right wear it was, on my eyelashes...at least for the first part of the evening.
She was like a character out of a Walt Disney movie...one of the princesses. Lavish with compliments for our humble home, about how we brought up our son. I picked up on how much she loves her family, and that she has lots of pets (always a good sign to me), and what a positive outlook and sunny disposition she had. Okay I thought to myself, I will allow you the honor of birthing my grandchildren. My daughter (away at college calls) I politely excuse myself as I go into the other room and try whispering "You're going to LOVE her". We have a 2 second
conversation filling her in as quickly as possible on the skinny, the low down....I was curtly but affectionately told "I'll be the judge if she's "In" or not."..we giggled and hung up.
Dan-the-man made a wonderful beef brisket with a mushroom gravy, red skinned potato mashers,
broccoli, and even though she is probably a size 2 enjoyed the dinner
and had seconds.
After dinner we relaxed and conversed more. A little while later I served my apple crumb pie
ala mode. It was a
relaxing enjoyable evening, and we wrapped things up agreeing that I would take her in the bug-
de-
doo to a
winery out in the country that she hadn't been to, and me loaning her a copy of Emma with
Gweneth Paltrow to watch.
Before they could walk out the door, I asked if I could take a picture. Little do they know what I'm up to right now, blabbing to my blog friends. You are
all sworn to secrecy...do you hear that??!!
Don't make me come over and give you a nuggy!I went to bed and slept peacefully knowing that life is pretty darn good right now!