Gala Guru – Reasons To Celebrate

Sending out a massive, hot buttered “Thank You” to Marilyn for sharing her story!

Dear Gala Guru,

My Mother is now deceased but when I was pregnant she came to stay with me to wait for the baby that was coming. She arrived with a pink sweater knowing that the baby was going to be a girl even though I had not had an ultra sound to determine the sex of the baby. One week before her granddaughter (yes it was a girl) arrived we decided to wait it out by going to a movie. We arrive after the lights had gone down and fumbled our way through a darkened theater in the middle of the day. I found my seat and my dear Mother came in behind me and sat down with her butter topped bucket of popcorn and took a seat, only to hear another woman say oh I am sorry this seat is taken, she had sat down on the lap of another woman in a theater that was virtually empty in the middle of the day, then the woman started to scream, “Please can’t you find another seat. I was sitting right next to her and had a lap full myself as I was nine months pregnant plus, I started to laugh so hard that, well you know what happens to pregnant woman. My Mother was mortified and went to sit in the empty back row of the theater. I couldn’t move and I kept laughing at the woman next to me during the entire movie because of the fact that I knew my Dear Mother was mortified sitting alone at the back of the movie. Dearest proper woman I’ve ever know and could she find things to bring her joy and laugh about!!!! Miss her dearly!

Marilyn Freeman