I went shopping the other day and restrained myself from buying stuff for your apartment because if I were you I would want to do it all myself.
However, if there are things you want, or things you want me to watch for on sale, let me know and I will keep my eagle eyes open.
Also, [...]

Hi doll,
I just got back from seeing sex in the city. It was so funny! There was hardly anyone in the theater and I went with the two chairs from grad night. We laughed so loud. Neither one of them had seen the show so after the movie they talked about how they wanted to [...]

What is going on with Firefox - it is doing what Safari used to do and the cartoons that friends send are not forwarding….

Mom: Did you hear that Queen Elizabeth is a Wii addict?
Me: No! That’s so funny. It’s funny how widespread this is!
Mom: Dad & I saw it on the news. I think she likes bowling the best.

Backstory: This email was a reply to one I sent about my money troubles.
if you cut down a little bit on your drinking when you are out-that may help.  sometimes when you are having fun and drinking-money doesn’t seem to matter. trust me, I know.
love love,
mom

We kept smelling something horrible in the garage and we thought that maybe a mouse had come in and died or something like that. Well, guess what it was?  Rockefella’s old cat litter. When you cleaned out his litter box you put it in a bag and placed it in a trash can that Dad [...]

Here’s the worried mom talking “Are you eating well?  Have you stopped using anti-perspirant?  Will you have fun at Symphony Hall tonight?  What’s new?  What’s old?”
Give me a reassuring e-mail so that I know you aren’t huddled in a corner, starving, and lonely!!!
Love,
Llama

Offspring - I am cancelling the reservation to Arun’s restaurant.  People are losing everything to the flooding in Iowa; people are losing their homes from bank foresclosures (USA Today highlighted a family who took out a home equity loan for $100,000 - their house is now worth $60,000); the price of oil is making travel [...]

I read a couple of notes from the moms and feel like as a mother I have been underachieving.   Very little humor in my notes but I am not admitting to being a bore.   I’ll have to work a bit harder to entertain you so I can make the big time web pages.  Talk about [...]

It’s 2330 I’m just going to bed… but the news is all about the feet washing up on our coast……….. just so you know…… I and everyone I know still have both feet. There may however be a business opportunity for the sale of shoes or should I say shoe?
Cheers Mom

Backstory: I e-mailed my mom to tell her (after bragging about not doing it for several months) I had finally locked myself out of the house.

I remember the time I locked you in the car accidentally when you were napping and at the same time I was locked out of the apartment cause the keys [...]

Backstory: I sent my mom a particularly entertaining YouTube video involving a choir of singing potatoes.  She was either inspired by the Budweiser ‘Swear Jar’ commercial I also sent along, or she was *very* concerned I wasn’t taking medical school very seriously…
Child, stop watching f***ing youtubes and get the h*** back to work!!  What the [...]

hey I just bought Davey an outfit from Nordstroms and it should be there next MOnday- it is adorable- I just had to buy it- hope it fits this summer while we are traveling! dont’ want my grandoson traveling with no clothes on!! we will have to take a lot for him because we won’t [...]

hi darling,
I must say the holiday in France was a crazy one to tell you! i ended up in a jacuzzi with four very odd men singing bohemian rhapsody with a beer hat on supplying me with famous grouse….now i know what you must be thinking but i can tell you your mother is no [...]

Backstory: I got a new puppy.
Hi!  How is life as a parent?  Did puppy keep you up last night?
I’m thinking of my grandma name.  I’m thinking that I’m either Nina or Honey.  Dad is Papa. Nina is the name of the Diane Keaton character in Father of the Bride, and she becomes a grandma in [...]

MOM: Have a good day, Darling!
ME: thanks…
MOM: Oh, and make sure your sister doesn’t forget her weed today.
ME: …
ME: you mean her oboe reed?
MOM: Yes
ME: you wrote “weed”
MOM: Did I? Oops! You know what I mean.

all excellent points and for the record, you can always make me cry.  Ok, well, admittedly I am PMS (TMI I’m sure), but regardless, ya still can make me cry!
I dreamed last night that Bob and I came to Chicago, you were having a party, and it was all these ‘old’ people, I think you [...]

OK - a mouse had been spotted in the new house.
Set a trap.  No longer a problem.
A black snake is living under the refrigerator.
Ma

The aerial acrobatics have begun . . . My birds are here!!! They were buggin’ Dad when he was up, staring in the kitchen window and looking mildly outraged. They were at the feeder this morning - I got it up first thing yesterday. And so, already two males are squabbling over ownership of the [...]

I can’t believe your grades and you have an incomplete.  What is wrong with you?  You have so much to offer and you keep fucking it up.  Dad said your one scholarship isn’t on the new statement, did they take it anyway because of your grade point average?  I have enough problems, without you adding [...]