Every year, Alex and I try to get away for a weekend with my sister and her daughters where we can all be on our periods at the same time. Good times. This past October’s trip got pushed a few months into 2009.
We flew up last weekend to Rhoda’s and then drove up to the Bavarian themed town of Leavenworth and the Enzian Inn. Our favorite part of staying at the Enzian is the Alphorn player – the cutest little dude you’ve ever seen.
It was a really fun weekend, mostly because I got to hang out with Alex. I love hanging out with Alex. We talk, talk, talk about hair and boyfriends/husbands and then do our nails. We eat chocolate and trade paperback books and watch all the chick flicks a person can handle and talk about our leading men crushes. (Her – James Marsden, Me – Mark Ruffalo (who, incidentally, looks a lot like Joe) ) We do all the important girl stuff and I eat up every moment of it. It’s always a little bittersweet because I realize we are so close and have so much fun as ‘friends’ because she doesn’t see me so much as a ‘mom,’ but I take what I can get.
At some point during day 2, after much talking, movie watching, jewelry making and lying around in our sweats, we all got a little slap-happy and the result is this photo of Alex that she will kill me for posting, but absolutely, positively must put here for all to see. Alex – I’m sorry. But I love you and even the chicken glasses do not diminish your beauty. This pose is divine and when you are done yelling at me, I’ll get out the nail polish and do your toes.
That is so sweet. I can hardly wait to do stuff like that with my daughters.
that’s fantastic, i’m pretty sure she could wear a potato sack and STILL be stunningly beautiful.
I was wondering if that was Leavenworth! We did a Washington trip on the fall and had dinner there.
You know that the photo of Alex will need to be shown at her future wedding….
A note to Alex:
Do not kill your mom. She is awesome in a zillion ways and the fact that you two do stuff like this is one of them. By association, you must be awesome, too. This is the greatest picture and I hope my daughter is ok with me putting up stuff like this someday. I’m using this as the standard.
Love,
Some Bizarre Lady You Don’t Know
You and your daughter are so fortunate to have that kind of lighthearted relationship. So many mother-daughter dynamics would never result in a photo like that, and while your daughter might currently think that would be great, she will realize she’s so much luckier to have this.
Girlfriends, whether or not they are family, are what keep us (or at least me) sane.