Happy Mother's Day

Actually our family celebrated yesterday. My mother is far away from me, but my daughter and I celebrated with our husbands at Mimi's. It was her first Mother's Day as a mother, though her baby is not due until August. I really wanted to honor her as a mother because my first Mother's Day, when I was six weeks away from giving birth, my husband told me I was not a real mother. He did not even say "yet", just not a real mother. When are you more a mother than when the child is in your womb?

I wanted to go to Mimi's because I just love it there and so does my daughter, but also because my Mother first introduced us to Mimi's years ago.

Another thing my mother introduced me to was tea. She gave me the Blue willow tea set that was my first as a child. She also taught me how to drink tea. We had many tea parties at my little wooden table.

I never broke any of that tea set, but years later my little brother decided to climb the shelf where it was stored and pulled over the whole huge shelf ensemble. Every piece was smashed except for the teapot and the lid to the sugar bowl. I was terribly upset, but of course I could not be mad at him. He was only four. Four-year-olds do not understand gravity. They just undersand they want to climb. Still I would love to find another child's blue willow tea set like that someday, but if they still exist, they are probably very costly.