Posted by Loulou on Dec 7, 2014 | 2 comments

I’m kinda wistful myself…and I don’t have a family to miss!

You know that Mama’s and Papa’s song about California dreamin’ and such.

Well, it seems like it’s appropriate for today, because mama is thinking of all her good friends back in that place from which she and papa came and it’s because of the holidays and a little nostalgia and missing family and friends and wishing all of them were in the same place at the same time!

BUT…We all love it here.  And there.  And everywhere.  Papa’s sister once said when mama was fretting about being in one place and then another and then another and when in one being unable to imagine another, “Well, aren’t you lucky that you love so many places so that when you are in them, you are really THERE and can’t imagine being anywhere else.”

Maybe it’s just the holidays.  They do this to mama sometimes, not every year, but some years.  She and papa would love Christmas to be in April, maybe, or March, just anytime except the end of another year.  And I’m not saying she’s in her “Bah, humbug” state as of yet, but only that I hope she doesn’t get so bogged down that she forgets to visit the little pet shop around the corner.  There’s a mouse that opens up and you can stuff it with home-grown catnip (!) if you are so inclined.

I am.

And guess what?  She can’t be too down in the holiday hole.  She and papa just got tickets for the grandkids to see The Nutcracker!!!

That says something.

Of course she hasn’t  seen it since she was…well…younger, but you can bet your boots mama will chase her blues away with that one!

I’d go, too, but my ballet shoes are being repaired, haha.  That swan at the lake did me in…

These aren’t ballet shoes, of course, but you can see why I like them…