So, what did YOU do on Mother's Day...?
Mar. 10th, 2024 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosa_heartlilyI went to church and listened to a friend venting about injustice. Which, to be fair, they had every right to do. What's happened isn't right, but we can learn from this. We're family. We can be better.
I rang my own mother. The word 'mother' is not one I embrace willingly. It has so much baggage attached to it - and Mother's Day hasn't always been a great day. And my mother, as my sole parent, did her best - but I was grandmothered much more successfully than I was mothered, and I claim the label 'grandmother' much more willingly. Just as I claim 'crone' far more easily than 'woman'.
I played a LOT of FFXVI. Fuck all the Mothers in Valisthea... Cid has shown us how!
I made a Bolognese sauce - and then our son treated us to a take away :D So, tomorrow's tea is taken care of.
Yesterday, our daughter (who LOVES the title 'mother') posted on fb that grandson #2 was watching the Crufts agility contest. He called all the dogs by the name of their dog and clapped when they finished the course. Cute grandson continues to be cute. She's been under the weather this week, so hoping to see them next weekend.
My BEST ever Mother's Day was when the kids were still quite young and we were all going to church together. Husband cried off, though for whatever reason. When the kids and I got home, there was a big bunch of flowers and a card waiting for me. He'd trekked out to the hospital, which was the only place he could find flowers on a Sunday (those were the days!). I will always love this man <3
Yes, I do specialise in posting randomness, thank you for asking. Although there is at least a unifying theme to this one.
And now for bed because I really want to make an effort to make my bedtime earlier.
I rang my own mother. The word 'mother' is not one I embrace willingly. It has so much baggage attached to it - and Mother's Day hasn't always been a great day. And my mother, as my sole parent, did her best - but I was grandmothered much more successfully than I was mothered, and I claim the label 'grandmother' much more willingly. Just as I claim 'crone' far more easily than 'woman'.
I played a LOT of FFXVI. Fuck all the Mothers in Valisthea... Cid has shown us how!
I made a Bolognese sauce - and then our son treated us to a take away :D So, tomorrow's tea is taken care of.
Yesterday, our daughter (who LOVES the title 'mother') posted on fb that grandson #2 was watching the Crufts agility contest. He called all the dogs by the name of their dog and clapped when they finished the course. Cute grandson continues to be cute. She's been under the weather this week, so hoping to see them next weekend.
My BEST ever Mother's Day was when the kids were still quite young and we were all going to church together. Husband cried off, though for whatever reason. When the kids and I got home, there was a big bunch of flowers and a card waiting for me. He'd trekked out to the hospital, which was the only place he could find flowers on a Sunday (those were the days!). I will always love this man <3
Yes, I do specialise in posting randomness, thank you for asking. Although there is at least a unifying theme to this one.
And now for bed because I really want to make an effort to make my bedtime earlier.
