Monday, September 19, 2005

Girls Just Want To Have Fun

My Mom just went back home yesterday from her visit with me - it was great to see her. I didn't realize how much I missed her until I saw her at the airport. It's not like I see her any less now than when I lived in Seattle, since she lives in Spokane, but it feels different. It's the knowledge that I can't just hop in my car and drive for 4 hours and be back home.

I was pretty impressed with my Mom's ability to get around in a totally unfamiliar place - she had to fend for herself for two days last week while I worked. She has a good sense of directions and does not like to sit around the house. The first day she walked to downtown Sunnyvale and the second day she took the train to Mountainview. She even discovered some shops that I didn't know about that I will definitely be visiting in the near future.

While Mom visited, we were able to do girly stuff, like get pedicures. I have had three in my lifetime and I enjoy it each time. We also went to the Quilts and Textiles Museum in San Jose, which was a bit disappointing for me. There were about 40 or 50 quilts, but there were no exhibits on the history of quilting or modern-day quilting or anything like that. After that, we went to San Francisco and toured Chinatown, the highlight of which was discovering these curious little figurines that were quite pornographic in nature. I'll leave the rest to your imagination! The best thing we did together was just go get coffee and relax and talk - that's what I miss the most. Every girl needs her mom....

6 Comments:

Blogger The Zombieslayer said...

That's sweet. One of the baseball mothers on my son's last little league team was talking about pedicures and now I want one. I heard they massage your feet. :)

9:13 PM  
Blogger Angelique said...

Sounds like you had a great time with your mom. Like the cute tootsies, pedicures are so relaxing and looking at my toes right now, they totally need one.

10:36 PM  
Blogger Notta Wallflower said...

ZS - Everything you've heard is true - it's a thin slice of heaven. ;-)

Angel - Pedicures are worth it - a girl needs to pamper herself every once in a while. :-)

6:17 AM  
Blogger Notta Wallflower said...

Storm - how far away does your mom live? It's so much harder the further you are, especially as everyone gets older...

Justice - Now that I'm an adult, I finally have a relationship with my father. I really didn't when I was growing up because he always lived far away. It's good that you and your dad can do things together.

Julia - My mom and I have talked about how fortunate we are - that we have this type of relationship. It's just not the case for everyone, which is too bad. Maybe because you and your mom's relationship hasn't been close, that will bring you closer to your daughters. It was the case for my mom - I think that's why she wanted to be close to me - because she wasn't close with her mom.

5:02 PM  
Blogger tshsmom said...

I'm blessed enough to have a mother AND a daughter who are friends!

7:41 PM  
Blogger Notta Wallflower said...

TSHS - You are truly lucky. :-)

Storm - Ack! That makes it harder - I HATE driving. :-P

4:46 PM  

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