first impressions

 

it wasn't all that long ago, when we were all formally gathered at a sit-down holiday dinner at my husband's mom and dad's house; classical music rose above the crackling of the fire, and steven's dad said, "oh, i just love his air on the g string!" and, well, being the incredibly mature woman that i am, i spit-spray-laughed my sip of red wine all over his mom's beautiful white tablecloth...for the second time. the first time was many years earlier, in the mid-nineties, when just the two of us were having dinner with his mom and dad. it was a special evening, and it marked my very first invitation to formally meet and dine with his parents; we were all talking about the voyager deep space probe mission when someone asked, "so, is that probe just going to keep flying right on out through uranus?" needless to say...i made quite a spectacular and memorable first impression.

~ janean christine mariani