We celebrated mother's day yesterday with the whole fandamily...which is quite a few people as we now number about 30 people if we include all the boyfriends and girlfriends of the grandchildren who are often with us at these gatherings...although at this time the main attraction is Finley, the great grandchild,and every time we have such a day i thank God for her.
When we came home from Brianna's - our grandaughter - the mother of precious Finley - mac said, Why is it mother's day? When I answered that mothers around the world are being honoured he just shrugged, until i said, "well too, I for one are not only the mother and grandmother - but I'm the great grandmother of Finley"...Well then his eyes lit up, as he said "she is so much fun..she really loves to make us laugh" So that's what made Mac's mother's day...and I'm sure that will make his Father's day too.
For one who loved his family so much, and who enjoyed making sure each child was recognized by having special movies made of their birthdays...spending hours finding just the right font to make a title for the movie, getting pictures from each child's earliest days, and then spending the day taking a movie of the proceedings; it's rather painful to see how he now no longer sees these men women and of course the grandchildren as his ...he often asks - who is who, and why are they here, or why are we there...yesterday was no exception, he was so tired at the end of the day, and asking me, when do we go home...and when we arrived back at the apartment, asking again, Why were all those people there, and Why is it mother's day...and again it's Finley that holds the whole effort together...
So it's quite wonderful that she is such a showman / girl...doing all her latest tricks, doing the hokey pokey, clapping he hands for happy and you know it....pointing her little finger in her hand for pique pique pique...holding her head for head and fingers knees and toes...and the list goes on...eensy teensy spider, spinery rinky dinky dink ...etc At the end of the day he's happy and he knows it and though he doesn't clap his hands...he is content...and so am i.
So Happy Mother's Day.....
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