A Chance Meeting Brings Great Peace... Saying Good Bye to a Dear Friend and the Walls Come Tumbling Down...

I'm tying up details on a delightfully fantastic day.  I had breakfast with Mom and my eldest brother Kev this morning .. this is something we're going to try to do with some sort of regularity in the new year.  It gives us a chance to catch up and get in the loop on one another... 

We went to Cracker Barrel this morning and had a great time.  We discussed updates in the

realm of individuals attached by DNA.. family, I mean..  Kev and I shared funny quips from a recent visit we each had with a nephew, Mom and I updated Kev as to the current standing of "facebook friends among the family" and I told them a story about a garage door opener, which I'll come back and tell you kids later... 

Kev meandered out front for a ciggy as Mom and I started to make our way through the gift shop.  All at once I turned around to say something to Mom and behind her stood my former Mother-in-Law.  She was standing just feet away from me and it occurred to me quickly had followed me from the dining area and was coming in peace.  I would give a pretty fair sum of money to have seen the look on my face.

This woman was my "Other Mother" from 1995 until the ex and I finally parted ways for the last time in late Summer of 2007.  There's an "old joke" about Mother-in-Laws... a general underlying theme, really.  Mother-in-Laws are supposed to be horrible wretched deceitful people from the boughs of Hell eternal.  That's what 'old comedy' and 'vintage tv' tell us anyway...