July 18, 2010

It is JEWELRY PARTY DAY and Mamaw still has the poops! Poppy asked her if she was goin to be able to do this and she said, “Hon, it’s too late to try to cancel now—I’ll just ‘wing it.’ And wing it she did! By noon she had me in the basement in my kennel—and hey; it’s really nice and cool down there too!

I begin to hear movement upstairs so I know the ladies are beginning to arrive. I stay real quiet so I can hear cause I’m really worried about Mamaw tryin to pull this off without my help. But she waited till almost everybody was there and then she made the announcement. “It’s been a SHITTY week around here and I mean that literally.” And so she just comes right out with it and explains it was too late to cancel so she would just come and go as “nature” dictates. Isn’t THAT cleaver? Well, it sound like they are havin the time of their lives—lots of talking and laughing; Sounds like a great crowd of people to have around you when you are feeling ‘shitty.’

And from time to time I hear Mamaw runnin just fast as she can to get to the bathroom and sometimes she doesn’t make it in time. She told me she had on three different outfits before the day was over. And she said there was no way she could have done this without her Dodi’s help too! She’s such a fine girl…Miss Ashton came too—just to help her Mom park cars. Ya know, in these town house joints, they don’t give away extra parking. So Mamaw asked some of her neighbors about using theirs so Dodi and Ashton parked everybody. As always, Mamaw was right on top of things and so I guess you would say the party went off without a hitch!

And so it goes without saying, you can do anything you make up your mind to do. In the end the jewelry lady was happy with the party, Mamaw was happy with the party, Poppy was happy with the party (well, why not; he worked during the party and when he got home just the jewelry lady was still here.) Just another successful day at the office…(smile)