People say my mom and I are a lot alike. Mostly my husband and my eye twin say this. Example of the day: On Friday mom and I have a conversation like this (and I paraphrase)
Mom: There’s a family orchid even going on at the History Museum tomorrow, and you can pot an orchid for free to bring home! I want to go but M wants to do our taxes, so I don’t think we’ll make it.
Me: Awesome! I’ll have to mention that to R. Pretty sure we won’t go either, there’s a ton of stuff that we need to do, but that sounds really fun!
——fast forward through lots of mentions in our house and a website drop or 2 about the event…to the next morning——
…phone call to mom, after leaving the DMV for the THIRD time with no success…
Me: Hey! What are you guys up to?
Mom: Oh! We’ve just planted our orchid and are walking around the art museum!
Me: UGH I’m jealous! We’ve got a huge to-do list so we can’t go downtown…sad.
——-fast forward to an hour later when we’ve dropped our to-do list and are downtown planting an orchid*——-
Apparently my mom and I are alike in that we have a knack for talking people into doing things like dropping taxes and lists and going on adventures! And we got an orchid out of the deal! I was so excited coming home with my tiny plant that I told R he may have just bought himself 6 extra weeks of baby-free living. I think that thought stuck in his brain, because I came home yesterday to roses. Nice try, husband. But they sure do look pretty on my dining room table!
*I may have completely and shamelessly whined my way into this one, and I am okay with that.
