Short Stories

Tyler had an interesting dream last night…a dream that probably only a youngest child would have.

He dreamed that he made a gigantic cake covered in whipped cream and strawberries as a Christmas gift for a friend. His brother Shawn ate most of the cake leaving only the edges. Tyler was so mad, but for some reason didn’t try to beat him up! He decided to make another cake and put a large “DO NOT EAT” sign on it. This time Shawn and Brogan baked a smaller plain cake and switched it for his large one. They also switched the sign to “HAHA!” for added affect. When Tyler saw the note, he was livid and started searching the whole house looking for his cake. When he finished with the house he started searching out in the garage. Then I woke him up and he was grouchy because I interrupted his dream before he found his cake.

The last few years, my boys have gone to Halloween parties with their friends leaving me home alone to hand out Halloween candy. Although I have enjoyed seeing the neighborhood kids in Halloween costumes, after 27 years of handing out Halloween candy, my Halloween enthusiasm has dimmed.

So this year, my husband and I decided to go a movie and dinner. Kyle loved it because there weren’t the normal Saturday night crowds to fight. The movie theatre was only 1/3 full even though it was the movie, “This is It”, a culmination of film clips that shows the behind scenes as MJ prepares for his world tour. We really enjoyed it, and highly recommend seeing it.

When we walked into Chili’s, there was no line and we were seated immediately. They had this great deal, two dinners for $20 just like Applebee’s. We were happy about that because we like Chili’s better. We shared an appetizer of chips and salsa. I had ½ rack of ribs with loaded mashed potatoes (both were excellent); Kyle had a smoked turkey sandwich with fries. We shared a “sweet shots” dessert of key lime pie, hot cinnamon roll, and red velvet cake, the cinnamon roll was our favorite. A great deal for $20!

It was a nice change after handing out Halloween candy for 27 years!

Today I called to check on my 77-year old mom to see how she was feeling since she fell flat on her face last Sunday when she caught her high heel in the church rug as she was leaving the church building. Luckily she didn’t have a concussion or break anything, but she does have a lot of bruising on her left side, but it appears she will be fine.

My 82-year old father must have thought things weren’t interesting enough so he coughed and accidentally swallowed his crown as the dentist was putting it on his tooth yesterday. They immediately had him go to the emergency room for X-rays to make sure it didn’t go into one of his lungs. Thankfully it went to his stomach otherwise they would have had to do surgery to remove it from the lung. Hopefully it will find it’s way out of his body in the next couple of days.