Rendezvous

Well, today I have one less imaginary friend, because we managed to meet up and she became real (just like the Velveteen Rabbit, I guess). It is so weird to hear a person's real voice after getting to know them only through their blog and e-mails. When she called me this morning to finalize arrangements, I almost backed out. Because I realized that this was really a perfect stranger that I was driving half an hour to take to ChikFilA (I had 4 of the kids with me). I mean, how dumb is that?

Well, I am glad that I didn't chicken out (ha! - no pun intended), because Kalynne turned out to be the realest person ever, now that she isn't imaginary. And I managed not to kill us both with my lousy driving (though I think she was a tad worried there for a bit). Our conversation was interrupted periodically by teenage children calling with various crises, so I can attest that her children are real, too. Or else she staged some very convincing fake cellphone calls...

As for my 4 youngest, it was as if they had decided to act extra good, just to give the lie to everything I have ever written about them on this blog. Quiet as mice in the car, sitting politely at the restaurant....no one spilled water, no one started squabbling over the little packet of sunflower seeds that came with my salad, no one peed on the booth...and then, to really make me look like a liar, David graciously offered to watch the others in the Playland so that Kalynne and I could continue chatting.

Don't worry, Kalynne - they got back to normal as soon as we got home. That was a performance worthy of an Oscar, though. And thanks for the book! Drunk, Divorced, and Covered With Cat Hair is on its way...