eHarlequin’s Open House: Dinner with an Old Friend

If I could have dinner with anyone it would be with my mother and mother-in-law.  They were both very special ladies.  My mom has been gone for 9 years now and I still miss her very much.  Both mothers were very influential in helping to unite their children.  They were the dominant person in our lives.  Encouraging, supporting and especially loving us so much.

May each and all have a wonderful holiday season.

Christyne--I've always said if I had three wishes granted to me, one of them would be my wish to meet every woman I'm descended from.  I know there would be language issues along the way, but magic would take care of that . Just think of the history lessons--and the ultimate answer of how we humans came to be .  

Susan 

What a lovely post and a great idea, Christyne.

i think we're all thinking very much on the same track here because I would have to put my own mother at the top of my list. She knew that  I had had my first book accepted, but sadly died before she could hold one of my published books in her hands. So she would have to be toop of the list and then I could show her all the books that have  followed on from that first one.

I would also love to meet up again with a Mills & Boon author called Marguerite Lees who was the first person ever to encourage me to write and say that I had any talent - plus she was a friend of my mother so they could catch up!

 And finally my father and DH's father both of whom died even before we married . I know DH would love to have met my father and I think his Dad and mine would have got on really well.

 Christine -  I hope your mother comes through the surgery fine and her health improves wonderfully

 Happy Christmas everyone

Kate

You're the greatest. 

...I would choose my MIL and BIL because they were both dead when I met my husband and because they both influenced him so.  I would love the opportunity to get to talk with them, to thank them for helping to shape him into the wonderful man he is, and to let them know how much I love and appreciate him.

Also, my MIL was adopted as a young girl.  All she could remember of her previous life and family is a woman in a red dress (presumably her mother) holding her, crying, and speaking in French, which my MIL spoke as a little girl.  She was adopted by parents in the Cincinnati area and grew up wondering about her biological family.  Eventually, she traced her father down to a professional or semi-professional golfer, I think.  So, I'd like to talk with her about that, too. 

Christine, I hope everything goes well for your mother in her surgery.  I will be sending positive thoughts your way and keeping her in my prayers.

Christyne, I'd invite my mother--if I could. She's been gone for a long while now, but I still miss her very much at big family events like Christmas.

Chris, prayers to you and your family for your mom's full and speedy recovery.

 Mary JF.

Christyne this is such a great post.

 Let me see if I could sit down with anyone. And for me it would change by the day. 

 My father-who unfortunately after only meeting him five years ago, can no longer speak due to complications from a stroke he had earlier this year, but also is suffering from terminal prostate cancer.

Jon Bon Jovi - I woudn't ask him about the typical things he'd be expecting like about his music career and stardom, i'd ask him about his charitable work, and an acting career that was once flourishing. 

Josh Brolin - I'd talk to him about his choice of movies of late which have been fantastic (No country for old me, W, Milk) and what does he look for in material. (if he need a story written-i'm available! j/k)

For today that's who my picks were: yesterday it would have been President Bush, Two days before probably our new president-elect. 

Great post! Thanks for that.