Room for Whimsy!

This morning I was thinking about my mother and the whimsy she brought into my life!
The image I got was of her when we lived in Columbus, GA and she would dress up in some " god awful" outfit and go over to the neighbors with a broken Ukulele and sing some sad whiskey tenor song at their front door.
After the neighbors got over  the shock and disbelief everyone would fall into a pile of laughter .  She is and was the " Phylis Diller" type...always looking for a way to take you out of your misery and give you something to laugh about.

  I've seen her disarm crowds and tables of people with the stories she can tell about her life.  If you get her started you can have an evening of hilarious fun listening to all the yarns she can spin.
There were times when I was a girl she would come out of the bedroom with mismatched socks, her hair a fright, layers of sweaters, pants and dresses and look as though it was the most normal things in the world.  We'd bust out laughing and tell her if she ever went out looking like that we would die dead in our tracks.

I loved that my mother kept us laughing.  We didn't always have the most happy life although it was pretty good.  She seemed to find ways to make lemonade out of lemons.  She could take a boring, mundane day and make it crazy and fun...and still can. Her outlook was always optimistic! Even in tragic situations she can find a silver lining!

Mom loves to play practical jokes on us. She doesn't do it so much now but I remember her throwing invisible ink on my cousin Lavelle's brand new white shirt.
Needless to say, he was pretty angry as she cackled at him.
Then the ink faded away and he cooled off.

One time she told my younger sister that a good looking former boyfriend of my oldest sister had called and to ask if he could take my younger sister out.  Mom told her she better go get ready, that he was coming over soon.  She hurried,and when she came downstairs mom said, "April Fools"...and yes, it was April Fool's Day.

Sometimes, it's fun to reminisce about the people in your life that have helped you through the yucky stuff.  I wish my mom would come to my door and sing me one of her whiskey tenor songs...I could use a good laugh like that once in a while!