MAMA MIA

Lara and my mom came into town this week, on their way up to Idaho where they will be joining my dad in their new home. Who could resist seeing "Mama Mia"? Not Lara (who has seen it now 2 times), or my Grandma (who has seen it 2 times), or my mom (who has now seen it 5 times). So, I headed over to Jordan Commons to meet up with them and a "date" night with Lara. She insisted on sitting next to me, to make sure that I was enjoying it the whole way through. You know she is going to enjoy herself if there is any type of romance whatsoever. This movie has quite a bit of that, so Lara was pretty consistent with smiling and giggling and rocking back and forth with excitement (which she does when she can't contain herself). Half of my enjoyment came from watching her reactions to everything and trying to sing along with the movie. I had my mom take a picture with her grand kids and Lara thought that she and my mom should get their picture taken too. She first went in the house and brushed her teeth so that she would be all ready for her close up. (Look at that tight grip she has on my mom)
Then, as we were saying "goodbye" to the family, Lara thought that she needed a picture with she and Todd. I'm not sure that she could have gotten any closer to "TAW-DEE" as she calls him.
She was so giddy when he agreed to pose with her and made the most of it by cuddling him and resting her hand on his belly:)

This is the longest I have gone without seeing Lara (a little over a month and a half). It is true what they say "absence makes the heart grow fonder ". When I was younger, maybe pre- teens, I remember wishing and praying that Lara would leave me alone. That when I would walk to my friends house, she wouldn't show up 10 minutes after me. I think that I may have even hid from her a couple of times and told the friends to tell her I wasn't there.
I HATED sharing a room with her and wondered why she couldn't be "normal", like all of my friends sisters.
Well, things have definitely changed! I still don't think that I would want to share a room with her, since she likes to have her t.v. on until the wee hours in the morning. She has magazine pictures of Sarah Jessica Parker, Beyonce, Olivia Newton John, Jessica Simpson, Brintey SPears, and anyone else who has been in a magazine taped to her wall:) But, I wouldn't exchange her for a "normal" sister for anything. And actually, I would say that she is more "normal" than all of us "normal" people. I can say that out of all of my sisters, I miss Lara the most (sorry Steph and Car). Maybe it is because I talked to her today which always makes me laugh and have a story to tell Todd when I get off. My latest conversation with her was when I returned her call today. " Hi Lara, what's up?" "um, Lynds....... I have to call you back later, I'm busy right now". "Why, what are you doing?" Well, um.......... I'm at the Dr. and (she whispers to my mom and then gets back on).... when I come to Utah, I was wondering you come see MAMA MIA?"

So, in 2 weeks, I have a date with my younger sister ( by only 21 months, same as my 2 daughters will be) to go to a movie. She lives for movies. Her favorite thing is to sit in front of the her favorite dvds with the remote in her hand, pausing every couple of words or sentences, to either type or write them out WORD FOR WORD! She has notebooks and notebooks full of scripts. If only life were that simple for all of us.