MOTHERS DAY

Sunday, May 10. 2009

I had to wish Kell a Happy Mothers Day from afar, as I don’t return from Beige until later this week. I sent her a text, an E-card and virtual flowers. I heard that Coney gave her something a bit more “hands on.”
She’s still looking for ways to “assist” with Ms. Eyeshine’s social life. She really can’t help herself; it’s her canine nature to enthusiastically rush into situations where she thinks she can make a positive difference. That impulse ordinary infuriates most felines, which is one of the many reasons the two genuses have such conflicts. That it doesn’t seem to bother Ms. Eyeshine is a mystery, but it’s not one that I’m going to get involved in.
That canine habit on Kell’s part is the main reason that I regard her as the true maternal influence in my life. Angelique was the adult female in the household in which I was raised, but she was so distant I never regarded her in anything approaching motherly terms. Gran had similarly removed herself from regular contact with me. When Dad married Kell, for the first time an adult female regarded me with actual interest. Maybe if I was an English major I’d have words to express how incredible that was to experience.
As for my biological mother, well, she’s on the other side of the portal. Which leads to this week's question. How do humans celebrate Mothers Day?

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Pretty much the way you seem to, although three dead weasels would not be...an appropriate gift.

#1 Thomas Mazanec (Link) on 2009-05-10 13:15 (Reply)

Well, Lindesfarne, I think you'll probably be a great mother when the time comes. You have wonderful examples of what to be (Kell) and what not to be (Angelique). All you'll have to do is ask yourself what each of them would do in a given circumstance. This will give you the 'wide view' of responses and you'll probably pick a 'Kell-ish' response. (Being an insectivore, it may not be possible to do exactly what Kell would in certain situations.)

Kell may have another reason to try and interfere with Aby's social life. Kell is extremely happy in her marriage and understandably feels that other people would be happier married as well. Kell's mistake may be in trying to link Aby up with felines. Perhaps a mixed-marriage (Predator-prey) would work for Aby as well as it has for Kell.

As for how we celebrate Mother's Day, we do many of the same things you do. As children, we make them breakfast in bed (usually badly cooked and leaving the kitchen a disaster), get them flowers (picked from the garden or paid for by Dad), and/or tell them we love them (probably the most appreciated of all, at a guess). As adults, we call them, send gifts of flowers or candy or other things we know they'd like or even drop in to see them in person. For those old enough (or unlucky enough) like me to have had one or both parents pass on, we think back on everything they did for us and wish we had done the things mentioned above more often.

(P.S. ordinar il y)

#2 charlieg on 2009-05-10 13:38 (Reply)

That really varies from home to home. Generally there is some gift giving, attempts at providing a nice meal for Mom, and trying to do things to let her relax. In my family, my mother hates the massive crowds at the restaurants and would rather cook herself in her kitchen. So mostly we get her flowers, gifts, cards, and hang out and do what she feels like. My mother-in-law got a nice gift, my husband and father in law did some permanent decorations in the front yard she wants, and I cooked a nice lunch for her. In both cases, we made a special drive up to see them.

Fun fact in our world about mother's day. A woman named Anna M. Jarvis worked to start a movement to create a nationally celebrated holiday to honor Mothers. After this was done, people began adopting the practice of giving gifts and cards to their mothers. Anna was furious at what she felt was commercializing the day and started trying to make people celebrate it the way SHE felt it should be. Something more along the lines of quiet contemplation and verbally thanking and honoring your mother.

#3 Librarypages on 2009-05-10 13:44 (Reply)

Three weasels wouldn't be an appropriate gift for Gran, either.

...Ordinarily.

#4 Lindesfarne Dewclaw on 2009-05-10 13:57 (Reply)

I sent my mom fine polish chocolates and a card in the mail.
My mom had one chocolate, and my dog vomited the rest all over the house.

Are dogs allergic to chocolate there too?

#4.1 kiseki on 2009-05-10 22:55 (Reply)

We have species related treats. Some species can have chocolates. However, there is an ID check system, used to verify that a particular food item isn't going to be poisonous to a particular species.

But, yea...try telling a three year old that they can't have doggie chocolates and see what happens...

#4.1.1 jup-reindeer on 2009-05-14 04:40 (Reply)

My mother always liked to say that any day she was with her children and/or grandchildren was Mothers Day for her. She passed away last year and to celebrate Mothers Day this year All her children and family got together and celebrated her life. Her oldest grandchild graduated college yesterday and we know that "GJ" was smiling down on all of us.
She taught me to embrace life and I will always remember her with a smile and a hug in my heart. I have "adopted" a very special lady who has been forgotten by her family and I am taking her out for the day in celebration of Mothers Day and my mother.
Here's to all the mothers in the world! May their families feel as blessed as mine did and still does!

#5 Cleos Mommy on 2009-05-10 14:04 (Reply)

As Library stated, sending one's Mother flowers and cards is a common practice, often with a small present or two. Friends and I also take our Mothers out to eat at a good restaraunt sometimes, at least those of us who don't eat out often.

As for Miss Eyeshine, good luck to your mother Lindesfarne, although I have a feeling although it'll end well, it won't go quite as planned.

#6 Bixyl Shuftan (Link) on 2009-05-10 15:08 (Reply)

Actually, Lindesfarne, the UK had Mothering Sunday a few weeks ago. My mum, having children on both sides of the Atlantic, gets two holidays... and yet still no cards.

#7 Jay on 2009-05-10 17:47 (Reply)

The way it is usually celebrated is by honoring your mother, grandmother, closest maternal figure in your life for all that they have sacrificed for you and your happiness. Cards, flowers, meaningful gifts, phone calls thanking them, these are all done our of respect for the one you bore you and/or cared for you. It's more about making them feel loved and appreciated than a certain gift item. I for instance mailed her a letter and a pair of books that she would like.

#8 Agent Reptile on 2009-05-10 18:56 (Reply)

i'm so happy that you found an loving mother in Kell. i myself have 3 grandmothers and 2 mothers if that makes any sence

#9 e_voyager on 2009-05-10 22:34 (Reply)

the plural of "genus" is "genera".

#10 anonymous on 2009-05-11 05:24 (Reply)

This household celebrates the fact that our mothers are thousands of miles away by sending them cards and praying to our household gods that their finances never get to the point of affording airline tickets. (We love them, but the relationship improves with distance.)

#11 Bookkeeper-At-Arms on 2009-05-12 00:01 (Reply)

My sister came home for the weekend, and we both took my mother out to dinner and to the drive in the night before. X-Men and Fast and the Furious were playing. On Mother's Day proper, we all set up the garden and planted everything, and then we watched the second and first Pirates of the Caribbean movies. We skipped the third because by that time, it was late and we needed sleep.

#12 Selina Grace on 2009-05-12 02:37 (Reply)

I feel there's more coming in this story of Abby and the patent.

#13 J.J. on 2009-05-14 03:43 (Reply)

From out of left field...

Today's comic shows Abby getting very upset about issues involving her patent.

And from my reaction, I realized I am a geek. Or a nerd.

I don't know how much you'll hear about it, Lindesfarne, but...

My reaction, no offense to Ms. Eyeshine, was, "Your computer is THAT OLD?" (Because if it isn't as old as the relationship in question, that opens up another entire batch of potential legal issues.)

#14 Tuyu on 2009-05-15 12:41 (Reply)

I still have a pair of 286 laptops that run just as beautifully today as the day they rolled off the assembly line. (We'll exclude the battery technology on that one.)

Yes, Sir! The only model you will be likely to find on e-Bay that says "Working."...with more then one listing, to boot.

And, even my beloved fawnhood computer could be resurrected with a little TLC. Believe it's only the power supply that has gone bad on that elderly C-64.

So, yes. Computers from the dawn of time can still be living to this day.

#14.1 jup-reindeer on 2009-05-15 14:00 (Reply)

You know... Abby's cute when she's angry.

#15 J.J. on 2009-05-16 00:22 (Reply)

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