Remembrance

[itsjustc]

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It is a warm late July day. The dining table is extended to its fullest, and covered with the best tablecloth. The centre piece: a beautiful home-made cake. Mom has worked hard and the spread looks wonderful. Cheese sandwiches have been lovingly cut into crustless triangles. The green moulded jelly wobbles precariously on the plate. The delicious

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[anonymous]

Beautiful story! Though it needs a little proofreading, I love it & will be voting for it!

[itsjustc]

Thank you I'm glad you liked it and thank you for the heads up about the proofreading - I appreciated it. I did realise there had to be some mistakes when I posted it (although annoyingly, I couldn't see them!). I don't usually leave it until the very last minute before the deadline to do my writing but my computer had been in the repair shop all week and I only just got it back a few hours before the piece had to be in - so by 12.30am GMT, I was a bit too tired to concentrate fully.

[static_abyss]

What a beautiful homage to your mom and dad. Wonderfully done.

[itsjustc]

Thank you so much for saying so. It was quite a difficult task writing this topic this week.

[anonymous]

This is so sweet!

-kimschlotwrites

[itsjustc]

Thank you so much I appreciate your comment. I tried to keep the difficult subject matter a bit lighter.

[anonymous]

fausts_dream

Very moving, loving tribute.

[itsjustc]

Thank you so much for saying so. It was quite a difficult task writing this topic this week.

[rayaso]

Your mother sounds so wonderful! Your parents would both be proud of you for writing this. It is a fantastic picture of your life. Those birthday parties sound wonderful, and it is amazing you were able to cater the last one yourselves. I don't know if "Dead Fishes" is a traditional game or one your family made up (I hope), but it sounds like so much fun and a great way to allow your father to be involved.

[itsjustc]

Awww, thank you. I'm very touched by your comment! My parents were the sort of people who would be proud of me, my older brother and my younger sister, for doing the very smallest of achievements! lol!

Dead fishes - I think its an old Victorian party game. I realise now that I'm older that it was probably a game that was invented to calm rowdy children down! You let children run around noisily for a min or so (or in the case of a children's party they already are!) and the leader (dad) suddenly without warning shouts "Dead Fishes" at which point all the children throw themselves down on the floor as quickly as possible and have to stay as still as possible until one by one they are out of the game because they moved and they sit up quietly on the floor until the game ends. Dad poking them with his walking stick isn't one of the rules, he just did it to make us laugh and move and be out of the game.