I am notorious for missing special events such as birthdays, valentine’s day, you name it. So, I was especially proud of myself that I actually got my butt in gear and not only bought my mother a card but bought her a present and got it shipped early enought that she got it BEFORE Mother’s Day. I thought about getting her a gift card to Belks but I wanted to actually buy her a gift. I’d looked over the whole section when I saw a blue-haired lady checking out Cappagallo capris and matching tops in a blue and white seersucker material. Perfect. It looked just like something Mama would wear. I bought her the top but I wasn’t sure on the capris so I bought two sizes and just included the receipt so she could take the other pair back and get something else.

The package arrived last Friday and she was elated. She loved it! Loved the color and loved the material.

I called her early Sunday morning to wish her a happy mother’s day.

Mama: Let me tell you what I did. Buck (my stepfather) says I shouldn’t have but I did it anyway.

Me: Okay…

Mama: Well, I just wasn’t sure if a woman my age should wear those capris and it was worrying me. I was laying awake in bed on Saturday worrying about it and then it occurred to me what I could do. I cut the bottoms off one pair of those pants and hemmed it on the bottom of the other to make it full-length pants.

:doh:

Dead silence because I am absolutely rendered speechless. Honestly, I couldn’t say anything….and that doesn’t happen often.

Mama: Well, are you there?

Me: Uh, yeah. I just don’t really know what to say.

Mama: You’re mad aren’t you?

Me: I’m not mad (pissed was more like it). But did you see how much I paid for that? Why didn’t you just take it back?:wallbash:

Mama: I didn’t want to take it back because I liked it. So, I fixed it. It’s got a double bottom and it looks fine.

Me: How does it not look weird?

Mama: Wait until you see it. It looks good.

Me: I’ll have to see it cause, quite frankly, I can’t imagine it.

At this point all I can do is laugh. We’re talking cuffed seersucker here, people. Mama’s definitely marching to her own drum on this one. I told Girl and she just grinned and said, “Grandma’s out there.”

Uh-huh.

Monday afternoon she tells me she wore her new outfit to the eye doctor and it looked good.

Mom: He stroked my arm the whole time he was talking to me.

Me: It’s probably that double-bottom fashion statement you were making — he couldn’t help himself.

Mom: I didn’t raise you to be a smart-ass.

:devil:

Who knows, Mama may be starting a whole new fashion trend among the south Georgia blue-haired set…or not.:mrgreen: