PEDTM: Day 13, Happy US Mother's Day!
If you celebrate, I hope you had a good day. As Webster said this afternoon, every holiday is so poignant right now, because we never know if this will the last one -- the last Christmas, the last birthday, the last Mother's Day. So we had a special Mother's Day. My sister sent gorgeous flowers from the Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden:
The yellow flowers are orchids, and there's also torch ginger, anthurium, birds of paradise, and banana leaves. I had a good time arranging it.
She also got Mother a necklace of little butterflies carved from turquoise, and a pretty cover that she can wear as a robe or nightie.
We got her a silver bracelet that's easy to put on and off, and a shell and sweater set that, I'm delighted to report, she fell in love with and wanted to wear immediately. The color was wonderful on her, too. We also got her truffles from See's candy. For lunch, I offered several suggestions but she wanted pancakes, so pancakes we had, with turkey bacon, and for dessert I made a trifle of lemon cake, custard, jam, and whipped cream. A bit much, I agree, but she loves sugar and needs to eat more and besides, it was yummy.
She was exhausted by the time I got her home so I didn't stay long. Webster and I went swimming when I got back (my second swim of the day!), and have just finished dinner, which was primarily an enormous spinach salad with feta, green olives, and apple. I think I will finish Mother's champagne and we'll call it a night.
One thing Webster and I (and my sister) all agree on is that we never want to look back and say: Oh, we should have done X for Mother while she was still alive. So it's work but it's very rewarding to think up these activities and foods and presents for her. She herself will tell you that she's getting old and it's harder for her to do things, so if it isn't too presumptuous, here's my advice: do what you can when you can, and let the rest go. Life is too short for anything else. Take care of yourself. Love.
The yellow flowers are orchids, and there's also torch ginger, anthurium, birds of paradise, and banana leaves. I had a good time arranging it.
She also got Mother a necklace of little butterflies carved from turquoise, and a pretty cover that she can wear as a robe or nightie.
We got her a silver bracelet that's easy to put on and off, and a shell and sweater set that, I'm delighted to report, she fell in love with and wanted to wear immediately. The color was wonderful on her, too. We also got her truffles from See's candy. For lunch, I offered several suggestions but she wanted pancakes, so pancakes we had, with turkey bacon, and for dessert I made a trifle of lemon cake, custard, jam, and whipped cream. A bit much, I agree, but she loves sugar and needs to eat more and besides, it was yummy.
She was exhausted by the time I got her home so I didn't stay long. Webster and I went swimming when I got back (my second swim of the day!), and have just finished dinner, which was primarily an enormous spinach salad with feta, green olives, and apple. I think I will finish Mother's champagne and we'll call it a night.
One thing Webster and I (and my sister) all agree on is that we never want to look back and say: Oh, we should have done X for Mother while she was still alive. So it's work but it's very rewarding to think up these activities and foods and presents for her. She herself will tell you that she's getting old and it's harder for her to do things, so if it isn't too presumptuous, here's my advice: do what you can when you can, and let the rest go. Life is too short for anything else. Take care of yourself. Love.