We Belong Together

Well, summer is over, and that means the summer library program is over too. Did I win anything from the weekly drawings you ask? No! Can you believe that? I had to read a book a week simply for the joy of reading! Oh well, such is life. At least I got a funny story out of the experience.

Twice a week in the summer the library has a program called Canopy Capers. Everyone brings a picnic lunch to the library and enjoys stories and puppet shows under a canopy on the lawn. In order to be the best mom ever, I decided to take the kids the very first week. Since we were coming right after swim lessons, we even arrived an hour early. I thought we could scout out a spot for our picnic blanket and check out some books with the extra time. We walked to the canopy and saw that the library had thoughtfully placed blankets under the canopy for everyone. I told the kids to pick out a blanket for our family to sit on. We walked around the many blankets, looking for the best spot. Finally we picked one we liked. I then noticed out of the corner of my eye, that a woman was looking at me with a very concerned look. That's when I put two and two together. These blankets were not thoughtfully laid out by the library! These blankets were brought by individual moms for their own families! I had to laugh at myself for not realizing this earlier! I can only imagine the horror that woman felt watching me choose which blanket to steal for my own use. But in my defense, we were an hour early and no one was actually sitting on the blankets. Who in their right mind has the time to come to the library an hour early just to stake out a spot for Canopy Capers? (except for me, of course!) It was a baptism by fire moment.

Canopy Capers about to start (which is why people are actually sitting on their blankets!)

Rubin laughed when I came home and told him the story about my Canopy Capers experience. It was quite the story in our family for a couple of weeks.

Later in the summer our sprinkler broke. Rubin ran to the Home Depot to pick up a short segment of PVC. He wandered down the plumbling aisle, but all the pipes on display were much too long. Luckily, he then found a store cart displaying various odds and ends. He started digging through hoping to find the piece he needed. And there he found it, a foot-long piece of 1/2 inch PVC! He looked up triumphantly only to catch a mortified man staring at him. At that moment, Rubin realized that this was not an odds and ends cart! This was that man's cart filled with items he intended to buy! Rubin quickly fled the scene, dropping the pipe and muttering an apology along the way.

We had a good laugh about these encounters. I guess this proves that we truly belong to each other!