As completely happy as I am with my child-free life, I really love being an aunt. My sister Wendy has done all of the hard work of being a parent, and now I get to do all kinds of fun things. Morgan and Drew have mastered the fundamentals of polite society (chew with your mouth closed, don't interrupt people who are talking, write thank you notes promptly -- some of which I'm still working on) and are delightful people to spend time with. This past weekend was Monarch High School's Homecoming weekend. Monarch's football team remains undefeated with a blowout victory for Homecoming; but that's not the fun part of the weekend for me.
I got to be fun Aunty Amy and took Morgan and her friend, Mandy, to shop for dresses in September, and then took them to get manicures and pedicures on Thursday. Wendy and I both took them to lunch and arranged for fancy hairdos the day of the dance. Drew had decided he didn't want to go to the dance, so I traded two young lovelies for him in the afternoon and we went to the mall for a movie and some shopping (needed shoes and a protective cover for his new Nano). Drew and I decided to stop in and say hello at Red Robin where Morgan and Mandy and their dates were having dinner and they persuaded Drew to come to the dance after all, which I thought was very nice. But this necessitated a head-to-toe wardrobe transformation for Drew -- luckily we were already at a mall. While the rest of the gang ate dinner, Drew and I dashed madly through Express for Men, where Jeff and Sabrina really entered into the spirit of the thing, even tying Drew's tie since neither he nor I had any idea how to do that. We bought shoes and socks and belt at Foleys, and a shiny new baseball cap to replace his aging North Carolina hat, and raced off to the parking lot. We actually ran into Morgan and Mandy and Nick and Ryan and Carlos, who were loading into Nick's dad's car, so I took Carlos so everyone could ride with a seat belt. I'm kind of a stickler for that. Everyone got safely delivered to the high school and by all accounts had a grand time. Here are some photos:
Amy, I like the new look of the site! Morgan looks BEAUTIFUL! She's really grown up~
Posted by: Renee | Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at 09:28 PM