And it just took sister making a blog of our email convos to get us going today!

I believe there were 30 to 40 emails traded back and forth during the course of the day…

Positive.

Talking to mom this morning did help start the smiles - picturing her standing in the kitchen at work laughing soooo hard she is screaming something in the phone back at me that I could NOT understand with tears in her eyes & hitting the counter & all the while NOONE there having a clue what is making her laugh so hard - must have thought she was losing it!

That's my girl! Sun is shining, it is Friday, life is good - could be worse. I am proud of your attitude.

Sis, I so enjoyed that laugh....... however, you don't realize that all the folks around here has witnessed that kind of behavior at least one time. I don't behave that way often, but when I do you can't ignore it.

What is ILY?

uhhhh I love you - Sister did you bring your brain to work with you today?

I couldn't help but chuckle at Sis's remark to you Les. Left your brain at home, ha ha ha.

(10:07:07 AM) Leslie: do you know what ILY stands for?

(10:09:24 AM) Paul: Illinois Librarians Yuletide

I must say you are in rare form today! Do you still not know what ILY means? Really???

Let's just agree to disagree over this issue...

On an unrelated note, there is this great new blog that was started today. I can’t wait until this anonymous blogger starts posting some crazy stories of some restaurateurs. http://welldonewithketchup.blogspot.com

All my love,

LT

P.S.  I color coded us because I was getting confused when composing this.
        Mom is red because she is full of love.
        Sister is purple because she is royality.
        I am blue because I like the color blue.

I love us!

My mom, sister and I email each other during the day to keep each other a little saner.  We don’t often have time to keep up with each other via phone or with visits – that being that my crazy sister has a litter of children and I live in the frigid north (Chicago) while they get to bask in warmth close to year round (Oklahoma). 

We started the email chains about a year ago with this rather innocent email about rabbit pooh shaped ice:

10-29-08:

“Mum and Sister –

I am excited about Christmas; however, I am (possibly) more excited about the prospect of eating exciting foods that my anxious taste buds have not danced to in a few years.  I have two requests while I am visiting:

1.       A delicious Sonic sody pop made even more delicious by rabbit pooh shaped ice.

2.       Taco Bueno.  I don’t remember what I ate at Taco Bueno but I have found myself compulsively singing “When you want more say ‘Bueno!’”   If my tongue can’t help but sing this horribly un-catchy tune, then it really must miss something about the food.

Oh, I just thought of a third (and how could I forget)…ROCKET BROTHERS (maybe) COFFEE!  And I don’t want my sister to think that she deserves to squeeze my cup and swoop in to lick off my whipped cream with delicious white syrup on top just because she is in the drivers set – and I want to clarify (and make her aware there will be hair pulling if the aforementioned catastrophe does occur) that right now.

That is all for now…”

Between then and now we have brainstormed elephant tattoos to get together, shared bowel movement frustrations, thong malfunctions (I’m lookin’ at you, Mum) – as well as the troubles of children growing up, frustrations with our jobs – and everything in between.

I want to save a record of the emails still yet to come that'll make us laugh and the ones that'll make us cry.  From time to time (probably during slow periods when we are busy with our lives), I’ll chronicle the emails of the past year that have inspired the love and given hope to the women in my family.

All my love,

LT