Flypaper thoughts Christmas Eve 2018 version

• Well where have I been?
• Planes, trains, and automobiles
• OK not trains
• No one has read my memo requesting transcontinental train fare the same price as the current equivalent of being in a glove box for half a day with the option to spend $20 on pesto salad, minus the pesto and minus the salad up higher in the air than anyone lets themselves think about
• I made a good business case
• We could fill those trains with middle aged women who like to knit and want to have their scissors and circulars handy
• And stretch their legs and play cards in the observation car
• Or take advantage of the five pieces of luggage currently allowed on most trains
• Listen there is a huge audience quite happy to be captive who has already figured out quite a few years ago that it is the journey that matters 
• Tap this market
• Until they do I am left to wonder why on earth anyone has a beer in an airport bar at 7:30 a.m.
• Unless they are folks who are wishing for trains
• My trip to Berkeley to meet the new granddaughter was wonderful
• This one is going to be a real piece of work, highest of praises in this family
• She's starting out by being really good at being a baby
• So proud of my son who could work as a doula if the tech industry crashes
• Does the middle of the night feed with her one bottle of the day
• And changes sides to replicate the breast
• That's my boy
• And discovered this trip at Stonemountain that my DIL is a world class fabric shopper
• She feels every piece and drags the bolts around so she can put them together so she can decide which one would be best
• I am bringing a machine next time and we are getting right into it
• This is of course as good as it gets
• Made three meatloaves, 2.5 chicken pot pies and two curried vegetables for the freezer
• You can take the woman out of Nova Scotia
• Plus cookies from the NYTimes since I am old school but cool school
• I have missed you so much since you left my house
• But know I now where everything is in your kitchen
• I can let out my breath
• You are still you and I am still me
• Bless the daughter-in-law who gave me that back
• Going to be a wise mother
• Stopped over for a day in Vegas due to a flight cancelation
• First time I went there for a conference 20 years ago I thought it was glamorous
• This time I noticed the runs in the show girls stockings
• And the diaper sized safety pins holding some outfits together
• Doesn't matter how many feathers or how high the boots
• I still see students
• And want to ask them
• Does you mother know?
• Are you a mother?
• Maybe who was in the Rat Pack were rats
• No undoing that now, not going back
• Think the town knows that
• Came home and sewed some Love Notions North star pullovers
• Got to do my own best patterns list
• Might put that near the top
• Speaking of which
• At the top of my list of things I was not expecting
• Was the bidet contraption my husband attached to the toilet
• Surprise
• Your Christmas present!
• I recognize a man who remembered it was Christmas when he was in middle of the plumbing department
• Hopes he likes his pullover
• That man's a star
• Merry Christmas
• It feels like a very good one