Emily’s Musings

Since having children, I have become more of a home-body.  Let’s just be honest here; it’s entirely too much work to get up in the morning and shower off the previous days’ nastiness, paint on a face, and wear something clean and decent.  When it comes down to 15 minutes of mommy free time, the last thing I want to waste that precious time on is doing my make-up or blow drying my hair.  Because of this attitude,  I know I have to make a conscious effort to socialize my kid, and GET OUT OF THE HOUSE by manually inserting us in public.

This is why we go to “THE POINT!” every Tuesday.  The first time we went to Thanksgiving Point, we ran into four good friends that we hadn’t seen in a few years.  This week, I ran into my good friend Melissa (who I nick-named “Mel-messa” because she is an organizational mess.  But that isn’t the point here . . .) who I hadn’t seen in almost seven years!  She and I were in the Days of ‘47 Royalty together 12 years ago (oh my, did I just write that? YIKES!  We’re getting old!) and we spent the entire summer of ‘96 together.  We did many crazy things, (she tried to set me up with her her future husband who is now an Ophthalmologist because she thought he was a great guy and “didn’t want to waste him”) like almost driving off the freeway (yes, I was driving, and if my mom reads this, then this will be new information to her) and traveling back East together visiting Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia.

She is as beautiful and tiny as ever, just as I remembered her.  She was also just as organized . . . she pulled out a grocery receipt to write down my email.  (Hey, I’m not saying I wouldn’t do the same, I just happened to have my address book with me.)

Let me tell you something, AM I EVER GLAD I DECIDED TO SHOWER AND PUT ON MAKE-UP that day.  Not that she would have cared, but it is nice to look decent when you see old friends.

It’s kind of like saying, “Hey, I’m a mom, AND I have personal hygiene.  That makes me successful, right?”