Day 54 ~
Two Unbroke Girls
Feb 23,
2014
My first:
I made dinner and dessert for my mom in honor of her birthday.
My mom
turned 86 today and I have never had her over for a birthday dinner. It’s
always been that all of us kids, the grandkids and the great grandkids got
together to celebrate her years here on earth at some point in time around
February 23rd. This year it will be on March 9th.
Well, today
was her big day so I invited her over for a nice birthday dinner of roast beef,
mashed potatoes, carrots and a “Mary” salad. I made her a layered cake to top
it all off. She liked it all except the part where some roast beef got caught
in her food pipe and I had to do the Heimlich maneuver on her. She’s okay. But
as it was all happening, I saw headlines reading “Woman chokes to death on her
birthday while eating a killer meal that her daughter prepared for her”.
Anyway, I
cleaned up the mess in the kitchen and then we had birthday cake. I sang to her
all by myself…what an honor to sing to my mom on her day in person as she’s ready to blow out her candles. Really! What more
could I ask for on this day of days!
We then
retired to the freshly-painted living room, covered up with afghans and talked
about whatever came to mind. It was nice…so very nice.
My mom
and I have had our differences through the years. Sometimes one or both of us
make more out of stuff than what needs
to be. I’m sure that some mother-daughter relationships are really messed up
and that ours is serene in comparison.
So we
embraced our wholeness and appreciated that tonight we were unbroke.
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