In the past I have had some amazing Mother's days. One year when I lived in Kamloops after Bill died, about ten in the morning, the door bell rang. When I opened the door there was Aryn standing there! I was so shocked I almost didn't recognize her!!! It was the first MD after Bill had died and she drove all the way up from Vancouver for one hour, she really had to turn around and go right back. I was so happy to see her for that precious hour!!!
And April and Myles send me flowers frequently and the first year after Bill died beautiful flowers showed up at my door 'love from Bill'. Brought me to happy tears it did.
One Mother's Day here there was a knock at the door. Standing there were a man and woman I had never met. They each were holding beautiful hanging flower baskets! It turned out that she was a friend of April's who, with her husband had just moved to Port. There are zero flower delivery places here so April had commandeered her friend to go to a nursery and buy the flower baskets and deliver them to me. I was floored....and in tears.
But when I can't be with them I always get phone calls from every one of them. And that is awesome too. We share our latest newsies back and forth and it is enough to know they are thinking of me that day. This will be Myles's first Mother's Day since his mommy died. It's going to be hard for him and his dad I think. I will call him today or ask to speak to him when April calls.
But, and here is the goodest part.....I LIVE WITH ONE OF MY KIDS!!!!! And I figured this year I am going to start a new tradition. I love traditions. They are the glue that keeps the continuity of the family alive. (I feel that c word I just wrote makes up for using goodest with the big red line under it).
As I was looking through a massive photo album book I have (see Cookie...I save pics in books too...sometimes) I came across a pic of Monte and I sitting on a street sidewalk makeshift patio outside a Greek restaurant on the Main Street downtown Kamloops. It was Mother's Day and he took me out for dinner! I was thrilled. We got hit on continuously by street people...which was totally okay with me. I love them. In fact when I knew where we were going I loaded my purse up with ten dollar bills for the white people and twenties for the indigenous folks. And that made that dinner special and most enjoyable. It was the best!!!
When I saw that picture I decided to ask Monte if he would like to do a repeat at our lovely Greek restaurant here in Port. It doesn't have a patio but it is by far the most Greek looking restaurant I have ever been to...including a bunch of them I have been to in Greece! And it is run by a Greek family. So as long as I am alive and kicking and we live in Port, every Mother's Day you will find us there...keeping up the new tradition. My biggest hope is that one day as many as possible of my other kids will be there with us!!!
Now I have a bedroom to go regulate, as Voltaire puts it. I have resolved to be brutal. I have to have at least two massive garbage bags before I am done. Maybe three.
I will take pics tonight and tomorrow before I post this post, I will attempt to put them here.
Well it didn't work out the way we planned. This town is such a loser back water hole. All the stores and restaurants close down from Sunday to Tuesday. WHY?????????? And even on Mother's Day Orestes was closed. Stupid me! I should have known. So Pivot time...and pivot we did. We went to a much better restaurant...in Coombs.
The place is called Cuckoos and it is just behind the market, the one with the goats on the roof. We have been there before and loved it. It's a traditional Italian trattoria. The food is amazing, a little pricey but well worth it. We actually had a lovely time! I shall post pics now...Ohm willing and the creeks don't rise. Thanks for listening and talk soon. TTYL
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