If I had sons, they'd totally be like these guys.

Happy Mother's Day, ya muddas! As I write this, I hope you're enjoying your Mickey Mouse pancake breakfast or dining out at Denny's, a Grand Slam brunch from the kids who saved their allowance for two months. Or, if your kids are older, and they have a job like my Molly's, they damn well be taking you out to the nearest themed seafood restaurant, as my daughter and her boyfriend Jordy did on Friday afternoon.

Here's a picture of Jordy and Molly being mauled by a giant sea otter on Cannery Row, Monterey.  We had just finished consuming shrimp entrees at Bubba Gump's down the street. Molly and I have a long history of dining at Bubba Gumps, and it was therefore a sweet, comfortable and familiar setting for her to celebrate, well, me.  Jordy was kind enough to want to celebrate me, too.  This was truly a heroic gesture as he had just passed a kidney stone 6 hours earlier.  Our poor Jordy woke up with massive, massive back pain, alleviated with massive, massive doses of narcotics administered in the ER at 5am. The ER docs introduced the different narcotics with a preface that revealed how well they knew their Santa Cruz young dude population  - "Whoa, you thought the last drug was gnarly? Well, you're gonna love this next one!".  Another doc showed up, took up Jordy's hand and reassured him, "Brother, I know what you're going through. I passed a kidney stone, too." 

Molly is not with me this morning.  She was doing some underage drinking at her stepsister Jenn's bachelorette party in Southern California.  I dropped Molly off at the airport for the short hop down to Burbank yesterday, then drove up to my Mom's house in the northern far reaches of the San Francisco Bay Area.  My Mom, despite some short term memory loss and still grieving my father's death, is doing pretty well, looks a great deal younger than her 76 years and was snappily dressed in a cute tie dye top that coordinated with her turquoise slacks and matching sandals. Her well being was in sharp contrast to the doomsday portrait one of our siblings painted of our Mom, and the art references are intentional, the sibling being an artist and a temperamental one, at that.  Arty sibling and my Mother have been at war since my Dad died.  I know that this sort of business can be part of the fallout of a family death, but things are going a bit too far, with arty sibling sending group emails to the rest of us, claiming that Mom needs to be institutionalized and we should do something about it.  This is hardly the case, and if anyone's crazy, the fingers point back to arty sibling. Life's too short for this.

(Ha! Blogged the family drama! But, really, what are these damn mommyblogs for, anyway? I'm just doing my part.)

Otherwise, I carry on with my blissfully boring life.  I enjoy the boredom tremendously, my simple life of tomato gardening, resting my hip (doing a lot better, people!), waiting for my Hubs to come home from business trips, the Cialis moments thereafter, shopping at Ikea for my new office/craft-sewing room/War Room, and the usual Jack Russell Terrier wrangling.  Our extended family of six beautiful kids, the next generation of four even-more-beautiful grandkids, thrive like the big showy delphiniums blooming in our yard.  And, our beloved home of Santa Cruz, California has never been more glorious and peaceful. 

(The only thing I can ask for is that my Mom gets evaluated for her short term memory loss and if any one of you dollins has convinced their aging parent to go to the doctor for their fading memories, please, please, please, tell me how you did that.)

As to the title of this post, I present to you this Mother's Day the answer to a question I ask myself now and again, "What if I had a boy? What would that have been like?"  I know that there are two guys are involved in this brilliant YouTube video, but I'm damn certain my male offspring would be a composite of both of these endearing dorks:

Comments

[Rhi]

That video is fantastic. Happy belated Mother's Day to you!

[Lisa]

It's a little late, but thanks for that HILARIOUS video. Belated Happy Mother's Day!