Go ahead and blog. All the cool kids are doing it!

Do you remember in Gypsy, how whenever Rose wants to change the act she says she "had a dream"? Too young for Gypsy? O.K., remember on Glee, the song that Kirk sang - "I had a dream. I dreamed it for you, Dad." - well same thing. Last night I had a dream about writing a blog. Maybe I felt like my act needed changing. Maybe it was so that I would act on what my brother and I have often said about needing to capture the essence of our mom in writing, or maybe it was a procrastination ploy. I have an ENORMOUS summer reading assignment. But that's another story.


Either way, when I woke up this a.m., I was convinced that I should write about life with my mom. We have been roomies for almost 8 years, now. When this all began, it was a means to an end. I had invested (badly) in my own business. Ended up selling my house, cashing out the 401K, starting a new and improved career. All the while, I assumed that living with Mom (Dad passed away in 2000) was a temporary fix, and yet......


I lamented to a friend at the time that the widow (mom) and the spinster (that's me) moving in together was like recreating an episode of The Golden Girls. My friend reassured me that we were much more like the Gilmore Girls, and I so wanted to believe him. I thought it was because he thought Janelle (mom) and I were so hip, so cool, so with it. Might've been based on maturity, though. 


Fast forward to, well, now, and I'm wondering if we've passed the Gilmores, the Goldens, and are now on our way to Grey Gardens. If so, and if there is a documentary in all of this, I might as well blog. I can't make any promises about whether anyone else will be as entertained by our stories as we are, but here is a teaser. 


Yesterday, while watching an 80's movie marathon (first runs for Janelle), she looked up from an angst-ridden Emilio Estevez and asked me if the singer, Gloria Estevez from the Miami Sound Machine, was Emilio and Charlie's mom. Bah-dum-bum!


For the record, my mom is incredibly hip for 75. She's the coolest and the kindest. And, she HAS seen the entire DVD set of Gilmore Girls, and both the Grey Gardens documentary, and the Drew Barrymore version. So here goes an attempt to figure out where we fall within that spectrum. Hope you'll check back and weigh in!