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[stgulik]

It's a weekend of travel, I think. Yesterday, we went to my mom's for her 75th birthday. What do you get a woman who has everything she needs and doesn't want anything? She solved that dilemma: she asked for yard work. So my brother and his son came around and the bunch of us planted her garden, mowed and edged, trimmed a few small trees and even power-washed the patio.

Then we rewarded ourselves with chicken, potato salad and birthday cake. No, I take that back. Cake before chores. That's what makes us happiest.

I asked everybody, "Cake or death?" and nobody got it.

My daughter has been on spring break this week but has been cooped up in town with nobody to be with except all her friends and her boyfriend. Poor thing! To help make up for the tragedy of life in the suburbs, it looks like I'm taking her on a road trip today. We're not religious people, thank God, (snerk) - okay, you didn't deserve that. Let me try again.

We're not religious people, so there'll be no mucking about with the Easter thing today. When my daughter was young, we hid Easter eggs and gave her a basket to put them in, but didn't equate it with anything Christian. Nowadays, if she gets a chocolate bunny, we're done. So off we go. Hoping the roads are fairly clear, what with everybody else eating ham or rolling away stones or what have you.

Comments

[mimimanderly.livejournal.com]

The eggs and the bunny have nothing whatever to do with Christians. They are fertility symbols and were used by the pagans looooong before the Christians were a gleam in God's eye. The Catholic Church took over the holidays and the symbols of the pagans, and built churches on their holy sites in order to convert the pagans to their religion. I don't know where the ham fits in. Last I heard, pig was not a fertility symbol. ;)

I think that was probably the best gift you all could have given your mom for her birthday. Most people that age are downsizing and do not need more stuff. Yard work is the perfect gift.

[voxangelus.livejournal.com]

Thank you for flying Church of England, cake or death? ;)

I hope your road trip was good and happy birthday to your mom!

[jenidralph.livejournal.com]

My husband and nephew are the only ones who don't look at me like I'm a loony when I say, "Cake or death?"

Happy Birthday to your mom!