Some Things Never Change...

You know Ditzy Danzer is 14 now and spends most of her time thinking that I'm some sort of alien from another planet. There are very few moments when she can relate to me. However, there are those moments when she looks at me with different eyes. When she sees something other than MOM. For example, last Saturday night we hit the road about 6 pm on our way to St. Louis to spend Sunday with the Huschle family. Supafreak had headed down on Friday so it was just the kids and I in the car and they were completely absorbed in their movie and I was alone with my thoughts. Well that was entertaining for me for all of 10 minutes and I decided to make good use of my free weekend cell minutes and picked up the phone and dialed up an old friend. Amazingly, she was in the car traveling at the time also. My sisters can testify that Andy was huge part of my high school years, but somewhere along the line we lost touch and haven't spoken in more than ten years. Nonetheless, we giggled and gossiped like we were 17 again for almost two hours. When I hung up the phone Ditzy Danzer looked at me like she had no idea who I was. Apparently, she had been keenly aware of the time and content of my conversation and what I read in her eyes was..."OMG, she's a girl." Yes, Ditzy Danzer your mom is a girl at heart and I can only hope that you create friendships like those that I've been blessed with. Girlfriends who, no matter how long between phone calls, can still share your triumphs and tears. Those are friends that matter.

I shudder to think how many hundreds of hours were spent on the phone with these two girls. Ditzy Danzer, meet Mrs. Roth when she was just Teenie Weenie and Andy, the voice on the other end of my two hour phone call.