Rachelfest 2011 is here!
It's time to show recurring cast member and the lovely Brit a bit of the fandom love. She's smart and beautiful and sassy and she runs her car into cute boys to get their attention. Not a fading flower our Rachel
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But there are joys in motherhood, to be sure, because Gracie adores any card game Rachel can teach her. Danny was the one who taught her Go Fish, but Rachel pulled out a real deck of cards and asked if she wanted to learn something called Poker, and Gracie's eyes had gone big and bright. After that, cards belonged to them.
Danny never interrupted a game, and Stan learned quickly to follow suit - it's the two of them, squinting at each other over a handful of cards and a pile of treasures. It's candy, or small Barbie accessories, or Legos, or scraps of paper that have "One Free Breakfast For Mum" or "One Horseback Riding Lesson" scribbled on them in Rachel's boarding-school scrawl. They play to win but they honor the winnings, Gracie getting up from the table after a win or a loss and shaking her mother's hand solemnly. Rachel always gives her the candy or the treasures anyway, and that probably says something monstrous about her parenting, but she would give so much more for this, would give everything, and this way Gracie feels that she's earned it, too.
One day, Rachel thinks, she'll take Gracie to the small pokey pub where she had her first Guinness. She'll tell her about the boys who can break your heart, and why they're worth pursuing, and how to keep your head up when everyone else wants you to sit down. One day, Gracie will grow up, and Rachel is almost impatient for that to happen. But not yet.
Not just yet.
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