Happy Mother's Day

I read the Sunday papers splashed with loads of Mother's Day writeup, especially highlighting some real-life examples of Mother-Son or Mother-Daughter loving relationships and photographed in warm loving poses.

I looked enviously at a picture of a mother with her teenage son's hands hanging around her neck in a casual embrace, faces lit up in joyous smiles. I think my teenage boys would be too shy to pose like that, but my youngest 7 year old son would openly hug in sheer bliss.

With the teenagers' swimming competition taking over the weekend and on their own, I chose to spend Mother's day uneventfully, on a lazy Sunday morning enjoying late breakfast and watching hubby trim the garden's bush and enjoying the sweet innocence of my youngest son. Yes, very rare to be able to have a quiet Sunday morning without schedules to meet. We discovered a small bird's nest hidden in the bush. We saw 2 birds flying in and out of the bush, probably the to-be-daddy&mummy. No eggs yet, but nevertheless, so excited with the finding.

As the day draws to an end, come almost midnite, my tweenager knocked on my door and presented a hand-made transparent pyramid with a heart-shaped card dangling inside. Tiny words were impossibly squeezed in: To Mom, I love U.
That was touching. We gave each other a hug and that was one of the moments I would like to recall more times ever.

So take heart, they don't say it very well, but they actually appreciate the mother.