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Sigh. I forgot until last night that I intended to send my sister a first mother's day gift, and last night was obviously too late to send anything. I decided to stay up until 6 a.m., which led to not getting up til noon, and only then did I have the bright idea to send her flowers. So I picked this really pretty arrangement with purple and yellow roses and hibiscuses and a coffee mug and a teddy bear, but they can't send it until tomorrow because I ordered it too late. I called her to let her know that I hadn't forgotten entirely, and she told me that her baby sitter's husband's mom is seriously ill, so they are leaving town, and as a result, Laura is coming to Orlando because she has to study for the boards and she needs someone to watch Revan. Motherhood, the very reason that I was willing to invest sixty bucks in flowers and cheesy stuffed animals, has contrived an evil scheme to ensure that the flowers will be dead by the time she gets back to Fort Lauderdale. All she'll get is a photograph, which I could easily have stolen from the website, shown her, and said, "Happy Mothers' Day! Aren't they lovely?" Again, sigh. I suck as a sister AND as a money spender. I don't really like commercial excuses to spend bajillions of dollars on Walmart gift packages and greeting cards, but she certainly deserves something from someone to tell her to keep on keeping on with her crazy-stressful life.

We should really quit staying up until six. We're like overgrown college freshmen or something.