Drabble #4

Yesterday she fell asleep with me on. That’s never happened before. She was sitting on the couch matching socks and then suddenly her head was on the cushion and her feet were up, and she was asleep. At first I was worried she had died; I don’t think I’d ever been on someone lying down before. But then she started making this funny rasping noise, and I could feel her chest moving up and down, so I realized she was sleeping. It was nice, actually. I thought I could almost feel her dreaming, but then the doorbell rang. Stupid mailman.

Comments

[Moonwishes]

No wonder she is tired. She has already cooked breakfast for the hubby and six children, baked a double batch of bread and a chocolate cake for Sunday dinner and has finished canning 23 quart of green beans......

[mb]

I bet my Nana had a dress just like that. She would have worn it till it fell apart, and then made something out of what was left.

[Anonymous]

She'd done all that Gail said, plus been up in the night with the baby, and before that had mopped the kitchen floor at midnight because that was the only time she could be sure that no one would walk across it. I know, because my mother had a dress like that and worked like that. When the dress split under the arms, she cut it down and made a jumper for me.

[Anonymous]

Everything that's been mention she did, and that was me and she fell asleep on the sofa because she was used to getting only 4hrs a night....phew! No wonder, but you know, I'd never wear a dress like that only because it suggested those things that I 'HAD' to do.

[nora]

I love the plaidfest!

[Miss Kitty]

I'm loving the Daily Drabbles. Thank you for bringing so many dresses to life! It's a bright spot in my day.

[Myrte]

Love this story, love the dress more now, she's sweet and a little insecure. No need for that. Like she's in love with the person who wears her. Lovely!

[Anonymous]

OK, you will think this is too totally anal to be real, but here goes. I don't pair socks any more (haven't for several years now). And I love socks, the more colorful, the better. I just despise wasting time with a huge sock pile, fishing through for mates. I have safety pins and 3-inch pieces of bias tape. Wrap the bias tape over the cuffs of the pair, then pin through (the bias tape prevents the circle-spring of the safety pin - or the business end as well - from working their ways through the knit of your beloved socks as they weather the rocky sea that is your washing machine's cycle). Hang them up, let them dry (I don't own a dryer), unpin when you want to wear them with the top that matches them, or the slacks that they look just perfect under, or...? Whatever! The few seconds it takes to pin them again when they're going to the wash is nothing compared to the HOURS I used to waste pairing socks. BTW, I don't use this method with thin fabric knee-highs, which are, unfortunately, necessary on occasion. I just knot them together loosely, mid-leg.

[Ladygrande (Texas Marie)]

Love the dress - I love plaids. Anon----no dryer? Applause!!!Love the ideas re: socks/kneehighs.Thanks!Marie

[deb]

You are beginning to sound like the J.Peterman of the patterns set. Good prose.