Shiny Distractions

Rather than whine about my mile long to do list and the outrageous way a two year old's birthday can take on a life of its own, I'm going to tell you two cute stories. Both of which brought tears to my eyes. This may not mean anything to you as EVERYTHING brings tears to my eyes. Including Every. Single. Episode. of Tori and Dean.

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A close friend of my mom's has two grandchildren, twins, who just turned five. On their birthday she gave each of them five one dollar bills. She then took them to the toy store and said, "Everything in this store costs five dollars and you have five minutes to pick out whatever you want."

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My parents were having dinner on vacation. They were at a restaurant only accessible via gondola and snow mobile with, what I can only imagine, was a view to die for.

In my mom's line of sight was a young couple. (I'm going to assume she means young like my age, not young like not legal to drink.) At one point she says to my dad, "Don't turn around now, but he's proposing!"

Of course she said yes (and of course my dad turned around to look.)

When their waitress returns, my dad said, "Listen, I'd love to pay for their dinner; it was great to be able to see that. BUT, do not tell them who it's from, and wait until we leave. Just tell them that we've been married for 37 years and we hope they will be as happy as we have been."

As they were leaving the restaurant, two of the waitresses come running out the front door to tell them that they entire waitstaff was in the back crying. At this point, so was my mom.

P.S. My dad firmly believes that it's not a good deed if you tell someone about it, so he would NEVER have repeated this story. Thank goodness for my mom!