I didn't really have any firm Mother's Day plans today. I didn't want to visit my mother's "filing cabinet," as she called it, at the mausoleum. I mean, when I think of her spirit, it's not at Woodlawn Cemetary. If anything, it's at the beach, or at my parents' house, or anywhere there is a pile of steamed crabs and beer.
As for my mother-in-law, the chocoloate-covered strawberries had alread been sent and received, and a lovely chat was had.
So, for today, we really had no obligations beyond being lazy. But, I don't really know how to be lazy, so I thought we could use the open schedule to return the car that we'd borrowed from my father for my parents-in-law to use during their recently concluded visit.
On the way home from said journey, my daughter piped up from the back seat, "Mom? I'm sorry that your mother died."
"Me too, sweetie. Thank you for saying so."
"On the night that Grandmom died," my older son chimed in, "I remember it because that was the night that I learned about 'Angry Birds.'"
I laughed so hard at that. The idea that he was enthralled with this newfangled iPad game his cousins introduced to him while I was grieving over my mother's dying... Well, it's just really funny. And reassuring that whle I was a numb-bot for a couple of months, they mostly just noticed things like 'Angry Birds.'
As for my mother-in-law, the chocoloate-covered strawberries had alread been sent and received, and a lovely chat was had.
So, for today, we really had no obligations beyond being lazy. But, I don't really know how to be lazy, so I thought we could use the open schedule to return the car that we'd borrowed from my father for my parents-in-law to use during their recently concluded visit.
On the way home from said journey, my daughter piped up from the back seat, "Mom? I'm sorry that your mother died."
"Me too, sweetie. Thank you for saying so."
"On the night that Grandmom died," my older son chimed in, "I remember it because that was the night that I learned about 'Angry Birds.'"
I laughed so hard at that. The idea that he was enthralled with this newfangled iPad game his cousins introduced to him while I was grieving over my mother's dying... Well, it's just really funny. And reassuring that whle I was a numb-bot for a couple of months, they mostly just noticed things like 'Angry Birds.'
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