Beautiful and a Bedspread

I was sitting on the couch last night watching E.R. and reading my December Oprah magazine (which, by the way, has some pretty neat gift ideas in it). I kept smelling my Mom. Weird, I know, until I realized that there was a perfume sample for Beautiful by Estee Lauder in the magazine. I couldn't get enough of that smell. It was like having her sitting right there on the couch with us watching TV. It is such a distinct smell to me.....beautiful, I guess.

Then not 15 minutes later there was a scene on E.R. with the bedspread my Mom has in her guest bedroom....crazy coincidence. If it hadn't been 12:30 a.m. back home, I would have called her. Just to tell her that even though she is 1000s of miles away, I felt like at that moment she was right there with me and that I love her. I would give my right arm for my Mom to be able to sit on the couch and watch E.R. with me every Thursday. To play and giggle with Monkey until the grass turns blue. But I can't. I'm slowly getting used to that....SLOWLY being the key word. There's just nothing like a mother's love or a grandparent's love, and I sometimes wish that we were closer to take advantage of that. Soon we will be showered in that love....only 4 weeks until we go home for Christmas.

Until then, I think I'll probably wear out that perfume sample.....