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MONSTER TRUCK MAMA!
MONSTER TRUCK MAMA!
For
the most part, my husband and kids treat me like a queen on Mother's Day. Last year, though, I was beginning to wonder
if they had totally forgotten the day because all I was hearing about was that
they had tickets to go to some big monster truck rally coming to town on
"my" day! I kept trying to
subtly remind them that there was a big day involved and all I got was,
"Yeah! Wow! This is going to be so cool!" So, finally, I decided that if I couldn't
sway them in my direction I'd just have to join them at the rally and consider
it a treat of a different sort!
Quite
honestly I had a terrific time at that truck rally. The roaring trucks doing unimaginable tricks,
the speedsters who blew past us in a plume of smoke and flames . . . all of it
was pretty exciting. I was getting into
it so much that when my husband asked us if we'd like to go behind the
grandstand and look at some of the trucks parked out there, I was the one
saying "Yeah! Cool! Let's check these things out up
close!" He just grinned and shook
his head at me.
The
kids and I held each other's hands and trailed David out to the area where the
trucks were parked, oohing and aahing at the size of those things. We stopped at a big purple truck that had
tires as big as my whole car. I was fascinated with its sheer size, and when
David asked me if I'd like to get inside it, my answer was an unhesitating
"Yes!" He asked the owner if
that would be okay, and between him and David they hoisted me up until I was
sitting on top of the world surveying my kingdom from a monster truck.
I put
my hands on the wheel, not quite doing a "vroom, vroom", but
close. I felt like a kid playing grown
up and I decided at that moment that this really was a terrific Mother's Day.
I
looked down at the dash to see what kind of gizmos would be included in such a
truck and saw that an envelope was blocking my view. And the envelope had my name on it. I looked down at David & the kids to see
them watching me avidly with huge grins on their faces. I picked up the envelope to find a small
jewelry box sitting behind it but prolonged the moment by politely reading the
very beautiful, loving card first. Then
I picked up the pretty little box and removed the shimmering ribbons and gold
paper. Inside was a pair of blue topaz
earrings which I immediately put on and surveyed in the monster truck's rear
view mirror to admire my family's good taste.
Climbing
down to thank David and the kids, I realized that this truly had been a
wonderful Mother's Day with my family and I wouldn't have traded it for my
"normal" Mother's Day for anything!
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St.
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