The Mall

In about four weeks, I will be going to a mall for the first time in 2 years. I am so excited, you would think I was going to Hawaii or some far away place. This is only about 5 miles from me and I will use my walker to accompany me.

I imagine by then, it will be October, so the malls will be decorated with pumpkins and table cloths with orange color to them and costumes for adults and children will be prominent in all the stores. There will be orange cupcakes and costumes looking like pumpkins for the children to dress up in. Also there may be stuff for Christmas festivities and table cloths of linen with red and green designs to adorn the holiday dinners. Homes will be decorated and new items to adorn the tree will be visible if you need new glass balls and décor for the windows and doors. All new will be showcased where I will be visiting in three weeks to the mall.

There will be in the women's departments, sweaters with holiday designs on them and red and green will be the popular color for the holiday.

I will look in amazement at things in the mall since it will look especially lovely since I have not been to a mall for 2 years due to a fall in 2014 and I was out of the loop called mall mania. I learned to join a club call internet shopping. I find it more difficult to shop via the computer.The pictures on the store ad does not always look like the one they sent you via mail or UPS. It looks like it has buttons all the way in the front when it is a pullover blouse. The men's trousers has a pleat in the front on the way that it arrived when the picture is no pleat. So you either keep it out of need or pack it up and you have to pay for the return to the store at your expense because it is hard to write that on the return slip and if you call, they say the item is not always as the picture.

So I will feel blessed to buy something in person when I go to the mall.

The first mall that I went to was in 1961 when a neighbor took me and my daughter and she and her son and we rode to Reisterstown Mall which was not enclosed, but still called a mall. It was amazing to me, she came from California and was used to them there. It was such fun that day in Christmas time in 1961 dozens of stores, one next to each other and hooked on to one another, no enclosure so if it rained, you were stuck.

There is a little boy named Zion Harvey who lives in Owings Mills. He is the first person in the USA to have both hands transplanted to his arms due to them being amputated last year because of an infection. A gorgeous kid and they asked him what is the best thing having new hands donated from a child who passed on.

He said " is being able to hug my mom." We take things for granted like hugging, living every day to the fullest, waiting for holidays where we get gifts and give gifts to others, to awakening each morning to a new day which may become extra special that day, getting into a small dress, we could not slip in because we may have gained more than a few pounds. Zion threw out the baseball at an Orioles game last week. What an honor for the audience to see this kid to accomplish with such a smile on his face.

Hug yourself and the ones you love and feel blessed to be here and to be able to love your life. Maybe, one day I will be able to accomplish a feat of dancing with my feet. I will have to go to a mall to buy a new dress. I already have the gold dance shoes to dance in at the studio and a gold purse I bought several years ago at a mall that my friend got for me in the store and which I saw online and it did look like the picture.

So here is malls for me, dancing feet, and bless this little boy who was given having his life back with having new hands. Who would have thought something like that could happen.

Elita Sohmer Clayman Fairfax Station Patch

Elita Sohmer Clayman Fairfax Station Patch