SIT

At our house when Mom wants us to listen to her she says, "Sit".  Maggie takes a deep breath because it is against her grain to listen to Mom the first, second and sometimes third time around, but she does sit.  Angus looks at Mom and sits, I look at Mom and ever since I first stepped into my new home 5 years ago I twirled.  Yes, when Mom says ,"sit"  I twirl like a beautiful ballerina.

Mom has come to accept over the years, that for whatever reason in my brain SIT means TWIRL.  Its a fact of life....

Yesterday Mom was waiting on her hair to change color and stop stinking so she told us we could not sit in her lap until she washed it.  All three of us were lined up in front of her while she was sitting in the recliner waiting for the stink to pass and she looked at us and said, "SIT".

Maggie sit promptly, which made Mom smile, ....Gussie looked at Mom and she looked at him, and he sat, and Mom said "Good job Gussie and Maggie Mae!" and then she looked over at me standing there looking at her, and I could tell she almost didn't want to say it to me, cos sometimes she doesn't want me to get my feelings hurt because I always Twirl, but she looked at me and decided to take the leap of faith, the same one she had taken for five years, and so she said, "Sit Stellie." and I sat and gave her a big pug smile.

Never never give up.
Stella Rose