Happy Mother's Day.....A few days early

Funny how when we're kids 'the day' whether our birthday, Christmas or some other 'special' day always had to be on 'the' day? Do you remember feeling that way? I do. It was a dramatic 'end of the world' scenario, complete with pouting, going off alone, being bummed for days (looking back, I could've been a challenge.....ya think?) Well thank God, I grew up and out of that and lots of other childish things best left behind, only to discover that every decade of life has it's treasures and it's pleasures. Today, my grown kids have the day off from their jobs. My son and his wife because these are their normal days off from the software company that employs them....my daughter, because she has some flexibility in her schedule before she starts her new job full time. Wow, what a treat! They have a bit of a schlep to get here, over 100 miles 1 way and here they come. No one will tell me what they have in store. Everything has been down low and hush-hush. I feel like that little kid again....waiting for 'the' day, only now it's just a few hours away from happening. It makes me feel very rich in the ways that matter most. No one, no-thing, can take that away from me. Not a poor economy or injured health or the plethora of things that can happen in one's life over 50+ years. I have my mind to enjoy these memories and my heart to savor them. My mother in law used to say that Mother's Day was a Hallmark holiday. I remember being kind of offended thinking that Mother's Day was sacrosanct, you know? I think she had it right and still does at 90 years of age. The importance of gathering together anytime is precious. When we decide to do it doesn't matter, where we decide to do it doesn't matter. Heck, we could fly kites at the park and it would make me happy (well, a little picnic wouldn't hurt either!) As I remember, and I'm sure that many of you agree, most of my Mom's Day dinner's out were a disaster. Everyone serving us wanted to be with their own Mom's! Everyone cooking wanted to be with their own mom's. The day was unremarkable or disappointing in that way. Anyway, I'll stop short in order not to bore the reader to tears. But, one thing I will do in a most vintage (it was early in the century that Mother's Day was made 'official') fashion is to wish each and every Mom out there whether you are an empty nester like me....or youthful vital and still in your nesting years the HAPPIEST of MOTHER'S DAY's! May simple pleasures be the best. Necessary frugality a fun challenge to be met with creativity and panache. If like most of us you are going through very hard times, hug the ones that you love a bit more closely. Cherish the interruptions in your adult conversation and keep building wonderful people because THAT is what Mom's do. I will leave you with 2 adages that though a bit played are still true (they wouldn't be adages now would they?) 1) "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world." 2) As my wise mother-in-law OFTEN told me while raising 2 that were 13 1/2 mos. apart while my husband was gone ALL the time; "This too shall pass." With warm wishes for your best success, HDRose aka The Desert Rose.....A Vintage Shoppe