It probably sounds crazy, but I was thrilled to get to meet up with Younger Daughter so that I could buy her a combined Christmas/Birthday gift early: 4 new tires. Not really very exciting, eh? Our outing also included a coffee date while we waited because OF COURSE the best winter rated tires weren't in stock; they had to fetch them from another store. Bah, humbug.
Some people see it and others don't, but we look quite a bit alike. Well, except for her huge blue eyes. :)
We ended up checking on visiting my mother after coffee, then headed back to the tire place, three hours after we'd dropped off her Jeep. They'd told us it would be about two hours for the job. However, instead of her car being ready, they hadn't even gotten the tires yet! Why didn't anyone call? Grrr. Speaking of waiting, remember my brother's sick cat? He had to take her half an hour away to an emergency vet where he waited for 12 hours! He got home at 1:45 a.m. Today John went over to his sister's to pick up his mom; afterward, he headed to his daughter's so that she could spend a little time with her great-granddaughters. Finally, he had to drive two hours to return his mom to her home in Sequim. So, I'm not going to complain too much about our "long" wait for the new tires.
In the meantime, in frigid New York (even the Iowans are bundled up), Little Guy, along with his parents and paternal grandparents visited a Winter Wonderland in the "North Pole," located somewhere in the Hudson River Valley. Grandson looked mesmerized most of the time, and didn't appear very fond of Santa. ;) Perhaps he was just cold! As for the conditions here, I'm no Biblical scholar, but I feel like I'm living wherever Noah's Ark occurred. The Atmospheric River is back. Should I perhaps buy an ark a boat?
I never go into any automotive place without a good book in hand and a plan to get lots of reading done.
Posted by: Ed | November 28, 2021 at 02:22 AM
That's a nice photo of you & YD, Margaret--and 4 new tires sounds like a pretty nice gift too!
Posted by: DougM | November 28, 2021 at 06:46 AM
What a fabulous gift. Not sexy, I know, but so wonderful and necessary.
Posted by: AC | November 28, 2021 at 07:09 AM
Such a good mom! You and your daughter do look very much alike. She has beautiful eyes.
Posted by: Karen | November 28, 2021 at 07:44 AM
You and your daughter look a lot alike. I've found that most kids are afraid of santa at first. He looks weird really, large, fat, hairy man in a red suit. Katie loves santa now but it took years for year to stop being afraid of him.
Posted by: Pixie | November 28, 2021 at 08:04 AM
Nix on the boat. Definitely an ark!
Posted by: Catalyst | November 28, 2021 at 04:09 PM
Awwww, how sweet! Tires are important, and not on young adult budgets. See, you got to spend some nice time with her, supervised out in public, so it was lovely. Of course, holidays are a busy time for tire people, but they were needed, no matter that it was busy. It's supposed to ease your worried Mommy mind that she has safe tires now. (My Dad called ahead and had me go to our neighborhood gas station to put tires on a car as I was "running / escaping" to get married in another state.) Years later, my folks would send a check in a special envelope ahead of the holidays. I recall really needing tires, to go visit THEM, so I opened it before Christmas, bought the tires, and didn't worry about when their check cleared the bank. That was before electronic speedy zapping banking.
To give my son some tires one year for Christmas or his birthday, I once ripped the tire wheels off of an old Matchbox car, put the tiny wheels in a box, wrapped it up and gave it to my son. He didn't understand what I'd done. Big checks work better. Linda in Kansas
Posted by: DrumMajor | November 28, 2021 at 08:02 PM
When my car needs anything done I drop it off for a whole day, making no assumptions that it'll be finished when they say it will. Tires are a nice present, says the boring older woman.
Posted by: Ally Bean | November 29, 2021 at 06:53 AM
Sometimes I think you look more like one daughter, then I think you look more like the other. I've been staring at those pictures for a while and you have a number of individual characteristics that are similar. I mean, you have the same chin, the same nose, the same cheeks, a very similar shape to the face and lips - yet you don't really look that much alike. Perhaps if younger daughter wore her hair the same way or wore glasses. Do the bright blue eyes really make that much of a difference and throw me off?
Posted by: Zazzy | November 29, 2021 at 10:17 AM
I know that new tires are "boring," but I have grudgingly appreciated them. When I've bought them for myself, I tell grumpy me: "New boots!" That makes me feel better for a minute! Ha! A very nice gift, though!
Finally today there were some moments of sunshine, and I was out doing errands. It made me smile to see blue sky, but now and then I'd have to turn on my wipers. But ALSO now and then, I was blinded by the light! My eyes are not accustomed!
Adorable pic of bundled up Little Guy!
Posted by: Tonya | November 29, 2021 at 11:27 PM
I've never thought you looked like Alison, though maybe if you didn't have a fringe, you have the same broad forehead? Anyway, you're both beautiful!
Posted by: Pam Donaldson | November 30, 2021 at 03:05 AM
Great pics of your daughter. She always looks so healthy. Pink cheeks. :)
Posted by: Liora | December 03, 2021 at 04:12 PM
I agree it's a lovely photo of you and your daughter.
We hate long waits. They could have at least called you!
Oh wow! That looks really cold.
Posted by: Musings | December 05, 2021 at 12:35 PM