Mom's visit...

When I asked my mom what she wanted for Christmas, her reply was that she wanted to hang out with me for a weekend.... so, we're doing it this week.

As usual, the weekend is a bit longer than for normal people, but that is good --- Mom and I can use the time....

So, she arrives today, on the end of her trip to Florida.

Tomorrow she's said she'll do my laundry while I teach (score!! as a kid I never had a mom who did laundry -- I won't feel guilty about letting her do some when I'm 39). When I'm done teaching, maybe we'll go to a movie --- and the Olive Garden, mom looooves the Olive Garden.

On Friday we'll take a road trip to visit my great aunt P. She's in her late 80s and I was named after her. We get along great, although I've turned out to be much more like her sister, H. ....

The more I think about it, I'm a lot more like H. H taught English at a CC for a long time over in cheese state, she has cats and is intellectual and sarcastic in the same way I am... H never married, but I think that is because she never found someone who could handle a really strong woman like H -- She's not a political feminist, but she's a great feminist role-model.... In fact, I think I told an anecdote about H when I was hired at BNCC (or, at least I planned to...).

I'm not sure what we'll do on Saturday -- probably a trip to the gym, as mom loves to swim. I suspect we'll also be at IKEA sometime, as mom loves IKEA too...

Sunday I'll take her home to the north woods, so I'll come back on Monday. A trip to the north woods is wonderful in the winter -- and this weekend is supposed to be really cold, so it should also be beautiful, as it doesn't get really cold with cloud cover.