Mothers Day – May 2024 part three

I should probably say, Mother’s/Mother-in-Law’s/Gram’s Day because seeing my kids, DILs SIL and my grandkids on that day is my favorite part of it. I absolutely love the flowers and the gifts are nice too, the cooking me dinner is also a big treat – but the crux of the whole thing is MY love for these people who gave me those titles. I can’t help but get a little melancholy and self-deprecating about my worthiness of the titles. Although, I do have to say “Mother” doesn’t sound very warm and inviting – why is that? TT likes to call me Mother sometimes in a humorous way and I can’t help but think of “Tangled” or my dad referring to my very mean Grandma Sorenson as Mother and neither of those are ideal examples of the titles – quite the opposite! And yet, it should have such a sacred meaning, shouldn’t it? I feel very much like I’ve been one my whole life (mothering myself in so many ways throughout my childhood and not doing a very good job and then becoming one at 19 years old – when NO ONE, especially me, has any business taking on that role when I’ve got no skills or modeling…….see that rabbit hole down there?) and “Mother-In-law” is even worse and in my own MIL experience, deserves to be worse. I hope I break that cycle. Yikes. But being a GRAM is the best. I chose the name, although Elle has taken to calling me “Bam Bam” and I’m not sure if that’ll stick, but if it does, I’ll take it too. She also calls B “Puppy”. Now that name seems much more fitting to him than Grumby. This year, somehow I didn’t take any photos of my flowers. It was the girls birthday on the actual day. In February, I got an email from Grand America to reserve brunch for MD, so I actually did. It was very nice to have everyone that could make it there. So brunch are the only photos I have from the day. I also remember that Master D and Elisha made us dinner at D’s apartment, which was very kind.