Topic: People/Family stories
Today was our first morning walk in the mall. There were about 10 walkers we saw besides ourselves and it was a pleasant atmosphere. Although smelling coffee and cinnamon buns while exercising is a weirdly amusing experience….torturous really. We decided one morning we might finish with a breakfast at the Paradise Bakery. It is a great place to walk in the summer though! It was 7am, so the shops were not open, no mall rats (sorry teenagers) skulking around, and we didn’t have to watch for cars, step on and off curbs or smell trash cans as we walked. Here’s the big plus: AIR CONDITIONING! We were able to walk faster and get the blood pumping too. Our daughters went with us today too. Jessica-19 and Bethany-16 bopped along in front of us and we laughed as their pony tails swished and they did little dance moves to the muisak that was playing.
Mother’s Day was nice. My family all met at my sister’s house for a relaxing steak cookout. We always fall to laughing hysterically when we’re all together. So all my sister…there are 4 of us….were eating at a large dining table with my parents, while my daughters….the 3 teens….were eating in the kitchen, just around the corner. So when we fell into reminiscing and telling stories on each other, I happened to notice that my girls were doing the same thing around the kitchen corner! It was so cute….and wonderful. I hope they stay good friends as they grown up and get married with families. This was the first Mother’s Day we’ve been able to join in the celebrating with my family in over 20 years. It’s really nice to be back in Phoenix sometimes.
Other times, it’s downright scary to be back in Phoenix. Charles and Maggie were driving the other day in our truck. They pulled up to a stop light and a motorcycle pulled up next to them, then when the light turned green, the motorcycle pulled out first and was immediately hit by an older woman who was running a red light from the right hand side. He was not wearing a helmet and Charles doubted if he would recover from his injuries, as the woman was going very fast to try to make it through the light. It really shook them up.
Then while I was in a superWalmart the next day, I spent an hour and a half looking and shopping all by myself. When I was checking out, I saw a swarm of police officers buzzing around the credit union that is in the front of the store. The cashier said there had been an armed robbery an hour before. WHILE I was in the store blissfully shopping and browsing! You really have to be on your guard in a large city these days…..it’s a scary place out there.
And that’s my weekend report. =)
