Spread a little cheer

I just want to take a moment to express publicly that my Aunt Missy is by far my most favourite aunt, if not possibly my favourite relative altogether. As we were daily collecting packages from the post office for Lena's birthday, a giant and heavy parcel arrived for me. Inside were two sparkly eyeliners that I admired on my aunt and cousin during their visit and TWO 6-packs of Cheerwine. Cheerwine, for you ignorant Yankees, is carbonated cherry-flavoured Robitussin. It is best served with fried chicken and deviled eggs.

Missy has always been my favourite aunt. I don't know if this is because she is the closest to my mother of her three sisters, or because she's just an all around groovy person. When I was a child I knew that Missy and (now ex-) husband Tim were designated to be my guardians should anything happen to my parents, and as a result I harboured a morbid fantasy that my parents would die (quickly and painlessly, I'm sure) in a car wreck. I didn't want to kill my parents, I just wanted to live with my fun aunt and uncle. Looking back, a lot of their "funness" then might be attributed to being childless and that my uncle was embezzling money from the bank at which he worked, but 18 years of raising my cousin Taylor and now being married to an upstanding citizen has not diminished Missy's cool-factor at all.

So, thank you, Missy, for being the Best Aunt Ever!

Comments:
N8 said,
3 September 2007 at 1:40 pm · Edit
Hmm… childless people are more fun? I can get behind that. ;)