Our Week-End Home, Feasting, and Mother's Day
Our friend Tammy, whom we hadn't seen since before she retired as Principal of Chantilly High School this past year, invited us out to her home in Burke, Virginia to have dinner and spend the night on Saturday. That way Jim could enjoy more than half a glass of wine with dinner and we could stay out later than 9 p.m. if we wanted so he wouldn't fall asleep on the drive home. As it was, after a couple of cosmos, appetizers, pork roasted on the barbeque and several delicious vegetable sides, merlot (Leapin' Lizard), banana cream pie with (real) whipped cream and desert wine, he sort of passed out on the couch in front of a video, around 10 p.m. anyhow. Surprise, surprise. It took Tammy and me another half an hour or so. It was SO worth it.
We got up around 7 and had the (double) cappacinos we hadn't had room for after dinner the night before. Then Jim ran out to WalMart, just because it was there, and Tammy and I had oatmeal. When he got back, we brunched on French toast, sausage, and fruit salad. We are giving Tammy's DBB (a new category of guest quarters we are calling "Dinner, Bed and Breakfast") five stars despite her persistent insistance that the pork had been somewhat overcooked and was too dry. We called the whole week-end our Non-Mother's Day celebration, since none of us has children.
However, when I got home I had a lovely Happy Mother's Day message from my adopted daughter Kay, who also sent pictures from the trip to Paris she and Cindy had just returned from. She also forwarded a really lovely ecard from another friend of hers about all women being mothers. Since Tammy had done so much mothering of us the past 24 hours, I thought it was appropriate to send it on to her. She said we could consider her Burke residence our week-end home from now on. That'll work!
Jim called his mother after we got home this afternoon. Tonight I'll try to track down my own again (I was unsuccessful yesterday) before she heads out. Rumor has it that she and the notorious Auntie Glenda are aiming for ports South tomorrow and won't be back for weeks!
We got up around 7 and had the (double) cappacinos we hadn't had room for after dinner the night before. Then Jim ran out to WalMart, just because it was there, and Tammy and I had oatmeal. When he got back, we brunched on French toast, sausage, and fruit salad. We are giving Tammy's DBB (a new category of guest quarters we are calling "Dinner, Bed and Breakfast") five stars despite her persistent insistance that the pork had been somewhat overcooked and was too dry. We called the whole week-end our Non-Mother's Day celebration, since none of us has children.
However, when I got home I had a lovely Happy Mother's Day message from my adopted daughter Kay, who also sent pictures from the trip to Paris she and Cindy had just returned from. She also forwarded a really lovely ecard from another friend of hers about all women being mothers. Since Tammy had done so much mothering of us the past 24 hours, I thought it was appropriate to send it on to her. She said we could consider her Burke residence our week-end home from now on. That'll work!
Jim called his mother after we got home this afternoon. Tonight I'll try to track down my own again (I was unsuccessful yesterday) before she heads out. Rumor has it that she and the notorious Auntie Glenda are aiming for ports South tomorrow and won't be back for weeks!
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