I’m at Mama and Daddy’s house for a couple of days, and since I left Birmingham pretty early this morning, I am just as tickled as I can be that it’s almost time for bed. In fact, I was just thinking about how delightful it would be if I were sound asleep by 9, but I’m going to stay awake a little longer and maybe work on some writing.
And when I say “writing,” what I really mean is “watch House Hunters.”
I know I need to be productive, but words and sentences and chapters feel like a big commitment right now.
Anyway.
After supper tonight I was putting a few things in the dishwasher when something that will forever and always remind me of Mama and Daddy’s house caught my eye for about the fourth time today.
An open, well-loved cookbook – with notes.
In case you can’t see it, this note says that Mama made Italian Cream Cake five times in square pans for Family Night Supper. AS YOU DO.
But really, isn’t it funny how just one little thing can immediately let us know that we are in the presence of our people?
Here’s another one.
I don’t think we even have a phonebook at our house in Birmingham, but at Mama and Daddy’s the phonebook is always visible and almost always folded back. Even the sound of someone turning phone book pages reminds me of my parents’ house.
So does a decorated laundry room.
You know what my laundry room looks like?
It looks like the place where organizational embarrassment went to die.
Clearly I have betrayed my strong laundry room heritage.
And then there’s the sight of stuff taped inside the kitchen cabinets.
If I have ever taped anything inside my own kitchen cabinets, I don’t remember it. But Mama? She loves a kitchen cabinet reminder. And she likes to make sure that reminder stays there by GOING TO TOWN with the Scotch tape.
Not even Scotch tape can top Mama’s love for this next thing, though.
Stunt pillows. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if you spend the night with anyone in my family, you’re gonna work to turn back a bed. You may even break a sweat (not with the bed in this picture, necessarily, but I would consider it an introductory level stunt pillow situation). Maybe it’s a family thing, or maybe it’s a Southern thing, or maybe it’s just a crazy thing, but we believe in pillow shams, we believe in throw pillows, we believe in neck rolls, and heaven knows we believe in pillow formations.
Exclamation point. And amen.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
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