Our Last Shopping Trip

5 years ago

at this time

I was on my last shopping trip with Cathy

John Brady's 1st Birthday party was the upcoming Saturday

Kim had put a quilt rack on his birthday wish list

She wanted one to hang on the wall

so his baby quilt would be kept safe

Cathy and I loved any reason to go shopping

Cathy was working at the mine early hours and long days

but

She never would let me go by myself

I called her that day and told her I was going to Tuscaloosa to try to

find a hanging quilt rack

She said to wait until she got off work and she would go with me

I am so glad we had that last trip together

It was strictly a trip to hunt a quilt rack

We took turns running into every store we thought might

have a chance of having one

In the end

we did not find a quilt rack

and

I ordered him one off the Internet and gave it to him late

But

we got our last shopping trip

We did our usual

she came to Billy Gibson's and parked

I picked her up

We stopped at Big Al's to get a

cold cold Diet Dr. Pepper and some peanut M&M's

You have to have energy to power shop

We shopped and then ate supper

and

then I took her back to her car and she rode home to Fayette

That was our last shopping trip together

3 1/2 days later she was gone