Janet

I love my mom. I know sometimes I am a little hard on her. I read a posting on FaceBook this week that my friend Brooklyn posted about Rat Genomes, and how the RatMom that licks her pups have more well adjusted pups opposed to the RatMom who Does NOT lick her pups, well, they aren't quite as well adjusted. I thought about this, and I am not quite so sure my RatMom licked me so much...I know she cared about me.....she just had a hard time showing it. If she read this blog, I would be in SOOOO much trouble. I have a Saggitarius mouth and I sometimes WRITE or SPEAK before I THINK. Warning!!! That negative trait will get you in ALOT of trouble in this life! Why would I worry about being in trouble when I am almost 46 years old? :-) See?? I am not well adjusted!

Well, my mom retired a couple of years ago from the Lawton Public Schools. She worked in the handicapped classroom. It was real hard for me to get used to my mom teaching and working with kids. I did not think she LIKED kids. So anyway, since retiring she has led a very leisurely lifestyle. She lives pretty simply with her husband Mike who is a Viet Nam Veteran. They are very good companions. I still worry that she is gonna kick him to the curb, or he is going to run away, because I know how my mom operates. If that happens, my brother says that "I" being the oldest daughter and living in Oklahoma, get to take care of her by Oklahoma Default! I have already given her a heads up that she is getting a One Way Welfare Paid ticket to the Nursing Home. Anyway, so far, things have remained status quo.

Sgt. Wilma and I paid Janet and Mike a visit on Monday. Sgt Wilma is Janet's mother. So we rolled up and they were sitting on the porch drinking diet Coke. We said our Hello's, and the elderly neighbor Ann came over to invite my mom to the Senior Citizens Center for lunch. If anybody KNOWS my mom, she will barely acknowledge she has kids and grandkids as she does NOT want anybody thinking she is OLD! Granted, she looks pretty good for her age. She was wearing "Skinny Jeans" its like...."What are you doing wearing Skinny Jeans? Aren't you a little mature for skinny jeans? Are you trying to compete with your granddaughter Micah?" So when Ann invited my mom to the Senior Citizens, it MADE my day!! With the straightest face I could muster I told her neighbor " SHE would LOVE to go to Senior Citizens with YOU!!!! " I loved volunteering my mom to go to the Senior Citizens for lunch. My mom actually committed to one day a week going with Ann, but I knew, Mike knew and Sgt Wilma knew that Janet was NOT going to be going to Senior Citizens for lunch. My mom has also over the past couple of retirement years, threatened to volunteer for  something, this time it was a bird sanctuary. Once again, I told her " I think that is a WONDERFUL idea, you need to go down there tomorrow!"

So Sgt Wilma and I get in the car to leave my mom's house and as soon as the door was closed, my grandmother was saying "She is NOT going to eat lunch with Ann at the senior citizens" I started laughing and said , "Oh NO she isn't!! " When I went home to tell Racoon about the Senior Citizens lunch and my mom he did some belly laughing too. We both speculated that my mom NEVER got out of bed before 11 am....that she is too busy recovering from whatever hangover went on the day/night before....shopping, gardening, pill popping, boozing, smoking, tv watching.....I am so eager to hear if she actually does go to the Senior Citizens!!