I think you’ve covered everything. 🙂 I hope you had a great Mother’s Day too.

We had Yum Cha with my immediate family the day before Mother’s Day and it was great value too with 28 people. LOL.

Mama Mary statue will be with us for the next two weeks. She came on Mother’s Day and after praying the rosary I was just overwhelmed and so I had tears at the end of it.

I’m hoping to be active here soon. I’m just finishing organizing Grandma’s 102nd and Dad’s 70th next month. 🙂

@GB, the statue of Mama Mary that we have belongs to our old church group. We have a welcome and a goodbye get together. But during that two weeks, we pray with just us. 🙂

I pray Grandma and Dad will have a good time. These days I really pray for just good health and world peace.

Happy Mother’s Day to everyone who celebrates. Here is to a more humane treatment, a more relevant resting period and practices aligned with science to ensure safety and health of all mothers.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the BOD mothers and our Queen. @agdr03 – have a wonderful time with Mother Mary for the next two weeks and have fun while organizing Dad and Grandma’s B-day’s too. Trying to recollect where I saw Mother Mary in my trip to Milan and Swizerland. These days, memory is so fragile and tend to forget what I saw or lose the words of my vocabulary.

HAd a good Mother’s day when my son shopped and cooked lunch for me. Still getting over jet lag and enjoying being back in the US.

Happy Mother’s day All!!

To all the BOD Moms, Happy Mother’s Day. This is a day that used to be fraught for me. My mother died of cancer a week after my second birthday. Her sister “volunteered” to take care of me but instead starved me. She was mentally ill and thought that somehow she could get my father to marry her. Instead, the social workers came in and I was placed in an infants home and then in foster care. F9ster care was a mixed blessing. I was well cared for custodial but was emotionally abused(was teased cruely and was told that going to the refrigerator was steal8ng. This was to a ch8ld who was deemed undernou4ished. My Dad then remarried to a widow with a young son. I was told to call her mommy but I was essentially unwelcome. She would serve her child sugared cereal and ne extremely soft boiled eggs(practically raw) and would leave my four year old self on the street unattended. In those days family would show up unannounced , when an aunt showed up and reported back to my Dad that my stepmother wasn’t OK where to be found. ZNot long after the marriage dissolved 8n an annulment as there was no intimacy in that marriage and not for lack of childcare. Afterwards, then until I was twe l ve I lived through several of my Dad’s girlfriends, including one fiance until he married my second stepmother.8 d8d not live with my father then ut stayed with my greatauntuntil I left for college. I spent years in therapy sorting through issues surrounding abandonment. I learned that what kept me vfr9m dysfunction was my feelings of hope and the support I got from grandparents and my great aunt, as well as some wonderful teachers. When Igecame an adult I reconc I led with my stepmother after my Dad’s death. She made me our wedding and she became our son’s beloved grandmother. Her extended family became my family. So Mother’s Day morphed into a happy day.