Grand Plans
I’m used to TW coming up with grand plans and big ideas. I have a strategy for handling that. What I’m not used to is my mother coming up with grand ideas and big plans.
When I saw a NY Times email forward from my mom I almost didn’t click it – I don’t really feel like doing much work today and I figured she had a suggestion for a BlogHer blog post or something. The link, after all, was about Terrariums making a comeback – which is kind of a neat idea for a BlogHer editor. But, the first line of my mother’s email – the one right before the link – that confused me.
Let’s make these next month. Doesn’t it sound like fun?
For awhile, I thought maybe she meant to send this to my sister. She lives in the same city with my sister. My sister has young children. This seemed like a message not intended for me. I puzzled over it. Closed the email. Went about my business. But that message stuck with me. What was she talking about? I went back to my inbox and I clicked the link. Nice terrariums. I closed it. Pondered it some more. Has she gone just a little bit senile? Should I call my siblings and find out if they’ve noticed anything – weird – like this email to me?
And then it hit me.
She’ll be here, at my house, next month. July is next month. And she thinks making terrariums while she’s here sounds like fun!(?)
Wait until TW and Michelle hear about this. Won’t THAT be fun? Also, anyone know where I can find small glass jars, to use for terrariums, in the Northern Suburbs of Chicago?
