Mom's Day: a preview
This year saw the premiere of a mom's day eve, apparently. A pure product of the daughter, it was heavily fueled by a trip to the grocery store with her dad. I can just hear her insist, as he selects potato salad and sodas, "We gotta get this and that for mom!" This and that culminated in the following: A sushi snack around lunch time. An evening dessert of raspberry sherbert adorned with dark chocolate pieces and a lit candle, delivered on a tray to the tune of a mom's day version of the happy birthday song.
Not everything was from the grocery store, but all of it was from the heart. A neck rub when I had a headache. A regifting of my coveted gifted jammies at bedtime (a soft, comfy shirt and pant combo). A bonus cuddle.
This morning she came downstairs and the first thing out of her mouth was "Stop! I'm making your breakfast!" (I was just getting something out of the pantry, I swear!) She beats me to my desk and rotates the chair out for me to sit. She sings another original lyric to the tune of the Camp Granada song:
Good morning mama, it's your day.Then she aksed if it was okay if she spent some time at the neighbor's across the street. The young woman she has her own relationship with (does that make sense? It's a one on one mutual friendship that they nurtured on their own) has a one-year-old, and her spouse is on the road today. She wanted to know it it was okay if she focused a bit on another deserving mom today, even if it meant less focusing on me for a while.
That's exactly what I will say.
You're the bestest, and you deserve it.
And trust me mama I will not sit, I will work it!
Hearing that is the best honor yet. Damn.
for the NNAF
4 comments:
I think what makes kids so much fun is that they get so excited about things. Like needing to celebrate Mother's Day Eve because they're so excited about Mother's Day.
Fortunately, my sister lives in the same city as my mom, so she can bring the grandchildren over and I can get by with just a phone call.
I think next year I'll send a homemade card with lots of stick figure drawings. She should get a big kick out of that.
Anyway, happy Mother's Day!
Thank you, Gordo. I like the stick figure idea! Much better than trying to snag some phone bill money. ;)
Your children are most impressive.
If I'd chosen to have kids, I would have wanted kids like yours. :)
Shh, it was just the daughter. Son hugged me and wished me a HMD and disappeared, then later came and topped off my soda without putting a new one in the fridge to replace the one he just emptied. They're both decent kids, just very different. If I'm going to have a good long discussion, on the other hand, son's the one. Daughter will get bored quickly. 90% of the time they just argue with each other. Parents gotta enjoy the good stuff while they can!
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