I know I talk about my parents relatively frequently on le blog, but oddly enough, I don't exactly want to dig up anything on Mom for this post before Mother's Day weekend. I guess it's because she's already the star of this month's Gypsy Bonfire. You'd think I would be filling your eyeballs for pages, since I find myself reading Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, following up Little Altars Everywhere.
(What can I say? There's a reason why the first book got made into a sappy, incompletely realized movie.)
So instead, I'll leave you with an excerpt of an essay by Garrison Keillor I found on Salon.com:
Like an old lioness, she'll come running even if you're 2,000 miles away.
That is why you pay homage to the old lady on Mother's Day. You entered this cold world causing her more pain than she thought possible and now she won't ever give up on you.
That is why you pay homage to the old lady on Mother's Day. You entered this cold world causing her more pain than she thought possible and now she won't ever give up on you.
I thought this was fairly appropriate because I'll be helping someone new with the "you entered this world" part later this year. I'm preggers, people! But I'm sure the 33% added crankiness has been completely unnoticeable.
9 comments:
Oh my gosh, Lisa! Congratulations!!! I hope you'll feel well enough to go the Art & Soul, since I'm looking forward to seeing you again.
You were supposed to wait until next Wednesday to spill the beans publicly.
I'm going to have to stop buying avocados. A couple of shots of guacamole and you just start babbling.
Good guac' will do that to a girl. Congratulations to the both of you!
Well Evil Greg is in for it now! Just when he thought you were going to be spending more time with him too.
Congratulations Lisa! I hope having two little beings is all you hoped it would be. Be safe and happy and I sure hope I see you again someday. You are fun and pretty and clever and nice and funny to read and listen to.
Two questions: Why next Wednesday? and: Was it really the guacamole?
Congratulations!!!!!
Wow! Congratulations Lisa!
I made my mom wait 3 weeks. In June.
Hey Beautiful!
What's better than a Preggers Announcement on Mothers Day?
Loved the quote.
Your story on the Bonfire couldn't have been more perfect.
Love to you and Both our Mama's who are probably in Heaven, looking down and toasting you with shots. After all, I'm guessing that you either can't get drunk in Heaven or you are, pretty much all the time.
Here's to you and the Expanding Family!
Congrats!
I have no idea what I put my mom through when I was born, but I know I gave her a run for her money when I was a teenager!
She died when I was 28, and I miss her a lot. I missed her on Sunday, especially.
Thanks for the quotes!
Congratulations, Lisa! Oh, I bet that means I won't get to see you at Art & Soul in Portland this year - bummer for me, but you'll have a new little one to occupy your time. Sorry this is so late - just shows ta go ya...I mean goes to show ya what happens when you don't read the last paragraph of an entry until weeks later! (signed) the Skimming Master
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