MAMA, PLEASE TAKE ME TO "BILLY IDOL" CONCERT.

Jeannette and Christina (Tina)

It was during her teen years in the 80's.  Jeannette and her best friend had been doing so many fun things together.  One day after I came home from work Jeannette asked me if she could go to the Billy Idol concert at the Selland Arena.  I said no.  She asked again.  I said no.  She asked me over and over.  Finally, I said, "O.K.  but on one condition, I take you." She jumped up and down and was practically screaming out loud.  She was so excited and so off she went to the harvest gold wall phone with the extra long cord to begin calling her friends and telling them the good news.  Her sister Diana walked in and immediately announced that she had to make an important phone call to her friend.  She asked Jeannette to get off the phone.  Jeannette hung up right away and ran to her room to look into her closet and see what she was going to wear to the concert.

I knew it was going to be a long night at the concert and I really wasn't looking forward to it.  Sometimes I react to something without thinking and this was indeed one of my mistakes by telling Jeannette that I would take her.  The day came up for the concert.  Jeannette dressed up so pretty and off we went.  I remember Jeannette smiling so much and having fun at the concert.  Billy Idol was the current Justin Beiber at the time.  All the young girls loved his white blond spiked hair. Jeannette had a poster on her wall of him.  We arrived home almost at midnight.  It was quite a night.  As I washed off my make up and pulled my hair into a ponytail I could hear Jeannette calling Christina and telling her all about the concert.  We had invited her but she couldn't make it.  As I was getting into my bed I could still hear Jeannette.  She was on the phone calling Mona and Lucia and on and on.  She was on a roll.  Next morning I tried waking her up to eat breakfast.  She was sound asleep.  The only way I knew I could wake her up is to fry bacon.   She loved that smell.  Sure enough, she was up and wearing her Billy Idol t-shirt and her bunny house slippers.  She hugged me and said to me that I was the best mom. 

The picture above is of two best friends.  I cherish this picture because it is back in the day when her life was carefree.  No stress, no pain, no worries.  A time in her life when it was full of excitement and laughs with her Tina by her side.  They were each other's sidekicks.  Best friends never die.