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Saturday, May. 07, 2005 - 10:54 p.m. Tomorrow is Mother�s Day. My least favorite holiday of the year. If you have been here any amount of time, you know why I hate this manufactured holiday. My mom doesn�t fit any of the flowery cards available on the racks at the local super store. In fact- I found the least �I admire/worship/adore you� template available on my card program and printed that one for my mom. I think it had something like �Hope you have a day as special as you are� inside. �Special� can be taken many different ways. I�ll leave it at that� Lease and I delivered a miniature rose (purchased from Nor�East roses) that I potted up in a new plastic pot, along with petunia bedding plants (for the window box planter we bought her last Mother�s Day)to my step-mom today. She was ready to leave to pick up her (worthless, soon to be in jail) son for lunch (which she probably paid for herself), so she wasn�t in the mood for us to hang around. Fine. We did the right thing, regardless of how it was received. That�s only 1 of 3 �Mothers� we will deal with this weekend. Tomorrow? We will spend most of the day with Lease�s mom (#2). She also has the same problem (finding a non-mushy card, picking out a gift that won�t be insulted) as I do with my mom. The only difference is I don�t have to spend tomorrow WITH my mom (#3 on the hit parade). I already sent here 2 hanging baskets from a local greenhouse (she lives way down in Kentucky-thankfully) for the �holiday�. Yes, I will find the time to call her tomorrow. That will be another un-enjoyable conversation (to go with the wonderful exchange I had on Thursday about the arraignments for Codeman�s graduation at the local community college- she can come, but isn�t going to be the center of attention or invited to the reception at our home. Something about cheating on my father when I was 12 with my 6th grade teacher, and then divorcing my father removed her from that picture). Can you now understand why I don�t enjoy this �holiday/torture�? As for the mother who lives with me? Lease, for those not keeping track? Our boy (Codeman, again for those not keeping track) had a very nice tulip/iris arraignment delivered to her workplace on Friday. The flowers were nice, but� The card (with a sentiment composed by the boy himself) made her day. Weekend, actually. No, I won�t post it here. That�s personal. But I will try to take a photo of the flowers tomorrow. I�ll post that here, if I do. What do I do for her on Mother�s Day? Nothing, aside form cooking breakfast. And being there for her, if her mom pulls one of her patented �guilt trips� on her. Why? Because that�s what she wants for me to do. She always reminds me that I am not her son, and she isn�t my mother. If she was? That would be nearly a Michael Jackson level of perversion, considering we have been married for almost 25 years now� Still have a bunch of photos to edit from last week. No time (have I mentioned that about 75% of my tomato bedding plants are dieing/dead? No, I haven�t. Sucks, by the way) for my yard work, let alone sitting here in front of the computer, playing with Photoshop. I have one for you, though. It�s a shot of tiny corn plants (sprouting in the field south of the storage), and the one lone pine tree growing on the edge of the field. I can only assume the tree was once growing in front of a farm house, long removed, on this once rural property. Nowadays, it�s just a lonely old pine surviving between corn and asphalt:
For all of the women out there who make an effort to be a positive influence/ role model/ loving presence in your children�s lives- I wish you a very happy Mother�s Day. If you are more like the women mentioned above (I doubt you are, if you landed here)? Look in the mirror. Maybe it�s not too late to see what you have done, and to try to be a positive influence in your children�s lives. I think it�s too late for the �mothers� in Lease and my lives�
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