
My mother-in-law had a box of my novels delivered to her place while I was away in Montana. When I got home, I got the Captain to collect it and bring it home.

I was looking for scraps of paper to start a fire in the woodstove and noticed some tissue paper on the box of books. Might as well burn that. It would be perfect for starting the kindling.
That evening, m-i-l phoned and said she had sent two camisoles over for me to fix for her.
“Oh? I didn’t see any camisoles,” I told her.
“They were wrapped in tissue paper.”
A heat wave swept over me, hotter than the fire I had made with the tissue paper. Could I really have burned those camisoles? Wouldn’t I have noticed that something was inside the paper? I looked all over the house for camisoles wrapped in tissue paper and finally phoned m-i-l back.
“I must have made a fire with them when I was burning papers. But I don’t know how I wouldn’t have noticed them.”
“Well … they’re very thin …,” she said. “But don’t worry about it.”
About a week later, my m-i-l phoned. “Guess what I found? Wrapped in tissue paper between two blouses in my dresser drawer.”
We both laughed with relief. She’s nearly 97 and is allowed to have a senior moment now and then. But my laughing stopped short when I realized, Oh no. Now I still have to do the sewing repairs.
“Okay, well bring them over when you come for supper next time. DON’T wrap them in tissue paper. Just throw them into a plastic bag. Then I won’t try to make a fire with them.”
And that is what she did. She put them in a plastic bag and I had them in my hand the day she came over for supper. I was very busy getting the meal on the table and putting food away into the fridge.
The next day, the cursed camisoles were nowhere to be found.
I searched the house thoroughly three times from top to bottom. No camisoles anywhere and I had no excuse to have a senior moment.
Two days ago, I took my m-i-l shopping, and bought her two new camisoles.
This morning, the Captain was making a sandwich and called out to me, “ANNELI! Guess what I found.”
“No idea. What?”
“I was looking for lettuce to put on my sandwich, and you know how you always wrap it in a paper towel and put it in a plastic bag? Well, just come and see.”
One bag has lettuce in it, and the other has … you guessed it … two camisoles.

And as much as I was relieved to find the cursed things, the next thought that popped into my mind was, Arrrgh…. Now I have to repair them after all.
I have decided to do that, and then quietly put them into m-i-l’s Christmas stocking (wrapped in tissue paper, the way she likes it).
November 14, 2018 at 10:51 am
LOL! Are you serious? That’s so funny, Anneli!
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November 14, 2018 at 11:30 am
SERIOUS! I started thinking that sometimes when a situation is so bizarre that it’s hard to believe, it makes a good story, even though it may have been traumatic at the time. My emotions were all over the map when this was going on. I’m almost at the point where incredulity turns to laughter. Almost….
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November 14, 2018 at 1:56 pm
I didn’t mean to laugh at your traumatic event, Anneli. The way you wrote the story it just seemed crazy.
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November 14, 2018 at 2:16 pm
It WAS crazy and I’m glad you laughed. It was funny afterwards, just not at the time. But yes, it was meant to make you laugh. Thanks for reading. 😉
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November 14, 2018 at 2:18 pm
Phew! I was feeling bad. Thanks! 🙂
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November 14, 2018 at 2:20 pm
Oh no! It was meant to be a spoof on a frustrating situation and it was too bizarre the way things turned out, so I thought, “I just have to share this!”
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November 14, 2018 at 12:11 pm
Senior moments……..Ahhhhh, the curse 🙂
Some end bad and/or expensive. Seems this one ended up great for your mom, 🙂
Life is Good !
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November 14, 2018 at 1:05 pm
Yes, scary, isn’t it?
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November 14, 2018 at 3:01 pm
HAHAHAHA! I laughed out loud! I’ve misplaced things too, but those camisoles are cursed. 🙂
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November 14, 2018 at 3:03 pm
I know! You wouldn’t want to hear the bad words I spewed for a while there. 😉
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November 14, 2018 at 3:05 pm
I would have used a few variations of a word that starts with F. lol.
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November 14, 2018 at 3:06 pm
Yup, yup, yup.
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November 14, 2018 at 3:09 pm
Ha! Still laughing.
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November 14, 2018 at 3:17 pm
Okay…so you bought two new camisoles before you found the sandwich wrapped original ones…soooo: You don’t really need to alter/darn the original camisoles, right?
I’d say a few misplaced (?) tissue wrapped camisoles is pretty good for a 97yr old – and that you as a d – i – l are a dear in dealing with this situation so patiently.
😉
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November 14, 2018 at 3:19 pm
You’ll never know how I was tied in knots over it. But thanks for the moral boost.
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November 14, 2018 at 5:45 pm
Too funny!
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November 14, 2018 at 5:46 pm
Yeah, it is now.
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November 14, 2018 at 8:37 pm
Thanks Anneli! I needed that!
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November 14, 2018 at 10:01 pm
What? A camisole? Or a good laugh? Haha.
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November 14, 2018 at 10:34 pm
A good laugh!
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November 14, 2018 at 10:37 pm
I know. Just teasing you.
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November 15, 2018 at 10:05 am
Thank you for giving me this hearty laugh. I was feeling depressed this morning and you cheered me up. This is a classic. 😀
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November 15, 2018 at 10:23 am
Glad I cheered you up, Lori. Be happy. Life is short.
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November 15, 2018 at 10:27 am
Pain gets to me some days, but I trudge forward.
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November 15, 2018 at 11:01 am
Yes, that would make it harder to stay cheerful. My dad went through a lot of back pain and I’m amazed that he was as cheerful as he was (often not very much, but he hung in there).
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November 15, 2018 at 10:11 am
What a fun read. Thanks for the chuckles along the way. You really must write a book with all the stories from your blog. Always enjoyable and thought provoking. Rachel
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November 15, 2018 at 10:23 am
Thanks, Rachel. I have thought about that. Might be a fun project. Thanks for reading.
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November 15, 2018 at 10:41 am
OMG! Just wrap them and put them under the tree! LOL!!!
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November 15, 2018 at 10:55 am
That’s a very good idea.
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November 15, 2018 at 4:37 pm
What a comedy routine😊
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November 15, 2018 at 5:12 pm
It wasn’t funny until they were found – at last!
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November 16, 2018 at 3:57 am
What a funny story, Anneli! 😅
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November 16, 2018 at 8:16 am
Funny how things turn out sometimes.
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November 16, 2018 at 1:45 pm
It really is! 😀
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November 17, 2018 at 10:48 am
What a funny story. I burst out laughing that they were in the fridge disguised as lettuce. I’m not sure those camisoles really want to be repaired, but they’ll make a nice stocking gift!
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November 17, 2018 at 11:09 am
Isn’t it strange how things that are so stubbornly against everything normal and that cause us so much grief, turn out to be funny once they’re resolved? Glad you got a chuckle out of the story. I agree about the repairs not even really being needed.
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November 17, 2018 at 11:11 am
I called my mom once, and chatted her for almost an hour while I searched for my work cell phone, in an utter panic. Then I realized that I was talking to her on the same phone I was searching for. Duh. Lol
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November 17, 2018 at 11:12 am
Oh no! That’s hilarious (and scary)!
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November 17, 2018 at 5:16 pm
So funny. 🙂 But I wouldn’t have found it to be so at time either.
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November 17, 2018 at 6:44 pm
I suppose it’s a bit like comic relief.
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November 19, 2018 at 5:20 am
Life offers us precious moments. We don’t always understand the “why” so we must enjoy the journey.
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November 19, 2018 at 5:25 am
Well said. Thanks.
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