What do you get the mom who has everything? You don't. You buy her a card and flowers and you make her food. Pretty easy ( Read more... )

When we called grandma last week, we had a normal conversation, and mom likely brought up Mother's Day to see if grandma wanted her to come by sometime this week. Grandma said something like, I didn't hear you say you'd take me to the casino ( Read more... )

All in all, this wasn't a bad weekend ( Read more... )

Our thank-you notes from Kevin arrived today. One was for the whole family, thanking us for our donation to the American Cancer Society in Aunt D's name as well as a general thank-you for everything. Then there was a separate one for me, thanking me for taking the time to write her a heartfelt letter. He said she enjoyed listening to it being ( Read more... )

Round two of cleaning started a little later today. Mom had bought a tube of cinnamon rolls. I wanted to be sure I was downstairs by 7:30 to make them; she was surprised I was up that early. (Also a surprise: When I heard mom coming downstairs and I said, "Good morning!" And the first voice answering was my dad's from the couch. He'd been ( Read more... )

What do you get for the mother who buys herself everything? Nothing except a nice card ( Read more... )

I have to say, Mother's Day this year wasn't too bad. I was in touch with a number of mothers (and one father, actually), and it seemed like everyone was having a pretty decent day/weekend, as the case may be ( Read more... )

We had no list for the grocery store, but I knew I needed one thing: A Mother's Day card. I managed to find a cute one, with toast on the cover; the toast had a smiley face. The inside said something like, a toast to you on Mother's Day. Perfect. Not too sentimental, not super annoying, and mom likes toast ( Read more... )

Grandma called us on Sunday, in part to wish mom a happy Mother's Day ( Read more... )

If I could have put music in the title, I would have. This was a moment of levity from last week. So, one of the in-jokes in my family is the melody for the Wicked Witch of the West ("da-dun, da-da, da-dun, dun"). My mom sings it most. I think she started it when we still had Gizmo and he'd come trotting toward us--you know, how when Miss Gulch ( Read more... )