Clobbered by Camembert

Clobbered by Camembert

by Avery Aames

This post written by Charlotte Bessette

Okay, I know, I was allowed to write last month's post, too, but I'm so excited. The winter faire has arrived. So I sneaked in to write another post!

The Village Square is aglow with lights and excitement. There will be an ice carving contest, and the twins are singing in a chorale, and The Cheese Shop will be represented at the faire in a tent we have titled: Le Petit Fromagerie. We will offer a cheese and wine tasting and we will give away pretty plates and wine glasses as tokens. I'm simply as excited as punch.

Oh, there will be horse-drawn carriage rides, too. And vendors with delectables like hot chocolate and brandy-laced crepes. And my grandmother has music piped throughout. 

In addition, a woman--an old friend of my mother's--has arrived in town and I can't wait to ask her more about my mom. I know it's a little maudlin, always wondering about one's parents, but I lost them so young, and I'd like to know more about each of them. I know what they preferred as far as music, and I have a hope chest in my bedroom filled with their mementoes (my father adored fishing and had a collection of lures), but I really would have liked to know my parents as people--not just through my grandparents eyes but through the eyes of their peers. There are so few people in Providence who grew up with them. This woman did. I can't wait to ask her what my mother thought about when she was my age or as a teen. Did she dream about boys and travel? Did she devour mysteries, like I did? Did she write in a journal? Did she giggle at the back of the classroom or was she the studious one who sat at the front of the class and raised her hand whenever the teacher asked a question? [I definitely did not do that, though I wasn't the giggler at the back, either.] I wonder, too, whether this woman knows more about my father. Probably not. From what I gather, she was only friends with my mother. But still...

Do you ever wish you could know more about your parents? Do you wish you had heard it from their lips or from someone else's with an objective view?

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