5 July 2012

BRENDA  ~ ~ ~  MOTHER-IN-LAW ~ A DELIGHT ~ A PLEASURE ~ A MOM ~ GRANDMA

Three weeks’ vacation.  That’s it.  That’s all.  She came.  She saw.  She left; and she left a rather large hole. But when she left, it turned in to an unfillable whole.  Seventy-one years old and still indispensable.  A success story if ever there was one.  A lover of her family and an ardent lover of her gardens; where God, and the miracle of the seasons bestowed upon us, are appreciated in a manner that I could only wish for, through her eyes.

She may not have liked the way I accidently lit her back lawn on fire in 1986, but I believe that she has forgiven me.  I hope, like I said to her, (in my early twenties worldly wisdom), that it will “grow back lovely next year, Bren” that it did just that.  Unfortunately Mrs. Brenda Tait is not here to shed light on this because Brenda is now on board her flight to England to go back to her regular life with the rest of her family back in her home-land of the British Isles.

Tonight, well past the midnight hour, (Eastern Standard Time), with your daughter tucked up in bed, I feel compelled to write about you, Brenda.  You are a remarkable lady.  Have a safe journey.  Your daughter is still in good hands with me, your son-in-law.

I wish you a good flight.  I wish you good health.  I wish you Bon Voyage and I wish you the happiness that you deserve, and the continuous loving relationships that you hold so dearly with all three of your adult children.

Just don’t forget, Brenda, (Grandma) that your delinquent son-in-law is not the ‘ass’ that he sometimes portrays himself to be.  And that my wish is that when you travel home through these overnight skies, and you arrive home safely, (as I believe you will), that you will take some solace in the fact that your garden ‘fire starter’ actually turned out to be alright.  He’s been married to his lovely bride (your daughter) for over twenty-five years now, and he has become well trained; in fact I have every confidence in him!

You have an unconditional loving son-in-law in me; and for this I promise.  But that doesn't mean he is not an idiot!!!