my grandmother's birthday

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Saturday I attended a birthday for my grandmother, who turned 90. We call her Magie. The whole family wants to be just like her when we're her age. Complete with the selective hearing. The only thing she doesn't do is drive (thank god! - that was scary). She gardens, she plays bridge, she volunteers at the museum ... she has a more active social life than I do.

I got dragooned into picking up my Aunt Jean in New Jersey so that she could attend, which more than doubled my driving time, but that's OK. Aunt Jean was complaining that she couldn't believe she had to be picked up, "as if I was an old lady. And I'm not!" (she's 88, Magie's sister. Good genes on that side!)

The party was great, lots of family stories about all the stuff my Dad and his siblings got up to when they were younger. Funny stuff. Especially when almost every story seemed to end with 'fessing up to a parent, and either Magie saying "don't tell your father" or Gramps saying "don't tell your mother." I guess when you have 6 kids, you don't really want to hear about every single incident.

And one more cousin announced she was pregnant, which makes me the oldest one who doesn't have kids. That will be oh so fun at the next family function. I'm going to deflect any pushiness to my brother, who is the oldest one who isn't married. And who is, incidentally, the only Fleming boy. Desperate times.

Comments

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

Didn't we talk about the whole "no kids" thing? Tell ya what - tell them all about your taste in fiction - in detail. They will probably be thankful you don't have kids to pass it onto *grin*

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You just wait - I will find something to suck you in yet. Did you try the second one? I promise it's short. And an interesting experiment in multiple AUs.

Or I could give you more books for your TBR pile. I really think you should give Sabriel and Lirael a try, even if your friends didn't like them.

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

no, i didn't -- but I did try to sabriel and lirael, but we are out at the bookstore, so it will have to wait until after HP and until we get restocked!