Celebrating Mother's Day

The sun is brightly peeking through the window. The breeze is gently ruffling the plum leaves outside. The dark jade pasture is littered with remnants of the last few cherry flowers freshly fallen overnight. The neighborhood street is characteristically tranquil on Sunday morning.

Our kids are already up at 8 am, after watching with us, back from Saturday night church service, the "Pearl Harbor" movie till almost 1 am . They are busy going in the kitchen, chatting, cooking and cleaning. The family tradition of kids serving parents breakfast in bedroom, on our birthday weekend and special days like this, was thankfully established a few years ago without our asking.

Samuel is the chef, Sarah and Stephanie are the sidekicks. Included in today's breakfast menu is a brand new dish that Samuel invented only a day ago. We shall call it "sliced brown sausage, orange pepper and white onion". It is both delicious to our taste buds and pleasant to our eyes.

As usual, the full breakfast menu came with a handcrafted card filled with words of appreciation from three children. Sarah colorfully designed the card cover showing mom and daughter with patched paper cut. Stephanie used 15 lines of acrostic to enumerate her fond feelings for HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY". By the time she wrote for the last Y, she was imaginative enough to say: Yo-yo's go up and down, but you stay up".

Again, our dog helped celebrating the day in her own little way, by rushing upstairs and jumping to our bed to be our company. Needless to say, she got to taste the sausage, fruit salad, and a piece of sunny side up egg.

While much work of sorts are filling up our time between breakfast and dinner, our hearts are delighted on this special day.

Happy mother's day to every mother.