<p>Happy everything, p3t!! It sounds like a glorious day all around!</p>
<p>P3T!!! Mazel Tov! What a fabulous day! Now we have a virtual wedding to plan! Congrats to the happy couple – and to your and your H, who have raised a wonderful son!</p>
<p>And, once again, happy everything to jym, too. Mother’s Day, Graduation Attended, Graduation seen only by proxy, that birthday that snuck in there…</p>
<p>Champagne in the real flutes, bartender. We are moms. It is our day. We are pampering ourselves. We will allow ourselves the “good crystal.” Especially since someone else will be getting out the little bottle brush thing-y to wash them when we’re done. If the guys come around, put theirs in a mug.</p>
<p>Thanks, jmmom!
It sure is a grand time for celebratin’ round here. As an aside, I didn’t (yet) get to see the video of #1 S’s graduation. I looked at the feed that is on the college website and all I can find is the boring (oops!) faculty and grad school procession and commencement speeches. Bro in law said they watched the whole thing live on videofeed simulcast and saw DS get his name called, and and get his empty-case-soon-to-be-filled-with-diploma-when-it-is-mailed-to-him given to him on the stage. I guess i’ll have to wait til we purchase the overpriced video of the thing from the web folks. </p>
<p>Went out for lunch with DS#2 for mothers day today. I asked him how it felt being the “good,considerate” son. He said “different”. :D</p>
<p>Yeah, where are the guys???</p>
<p>We need them here to be the Other that toasts our momness, our godess selves, our spriitualilty and wisdom and all that jazz!!!</p>
<p>A toast to all that jazz! </p>
<p>I came by after the boas and the bar dancing–only legends as far as I know–but I think today might be a good day to ressurect that revelry.</p>
<p>My boa is fuscia and 8 feet long and I have a drink umbrella at a juanty angle in my upswept hair. Any one care to show me the dance steps on the bar?</p>
<p>a few good mother’s day essays – a hard thing to come by – in today’s NY Times. My favorite?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/opinion/11flanagan.html?scp=1&sq=dial+m&st=nyt[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/opinion/11flanagan.html?scp=1&sq=dial+m&st=nyt</a></p>
<p>find a lost cell phone? Scroll through the address book and call “mom.”</p>
<p>Happy Mother’s Day everyone.</p>
<p>
ivory, during DS’ freshman year that is exactly what happened. I got a call from a guy who had found a cell phone, scrolled and called Mom (that would be Moi), found out from me which dorm DS was in. Before I could call S to tell him his phone was coming, it was already in his hands.</p>
<p>Hats off to Moms and strangers who know that Mom is the Center of the Universe.</p>
<p>Another bottle of champagne on me. DS told me today he has his summer internship lined up (a reprise of last year’s) and another possibility on the line. Oh me of little faith, I thought he’d delayed too long on these things. Even moms are sometimes slow to believe.</p>
<p>p3t,</p>
<p>happy birthday and congratulations. It is always a wonderful to get a new family member. I am sure you will not forget this mother’s day anytime soon.</p>
<p>Yes, we are also wedding planners here on SA. we make a mean chex mix and you already know that we can hold down a mean bar (oh, and mix a few drinks too).</p>
<p>jym,</p>
<p>yes, there is a lot of celebrating going on in your house a double portion of congratulations to your sons as they each begin a new journey.</p>
<p>mafool, if you are aware of any secondary markets for wisdom, I’d trade half of mine for good abs.</p>
<p>Wisdom and abs: around here, I think we get to have both! Don’t we?</p>
<p>Yes, and don’t forget buns of steel. 
Wheeeeee! :::confetti:::: Oh, and a wedding in the Alley! Congrats, p3t. </p>
<p>Sluggson drove out from the “sanctuary” (“I don’t want you guys at my apartment because it’s my sanctuary!”) and made me a delicious Mother’s Day burrito. What more could a mom ask for?</p>
<p>Buns of dough, and a “one-pack” (littlest son’s terminology)… </p>
<p>But, martini in hand, I’ll manage a grin. Nice to see you slugg!!</p>
<p>Poetry corner has a new poem, check it out…</p>
<p>I had the best Mother’s Day ever…as did anyone who got to see their child graduate from college yesterday!</p>
<p>Lovely day despite cold rainy weather. In the morning we wandered around the President’s gardens, arboretum, & Japan House, which also had little Oriental gardens around it.</p>
<p>When we had a quick lunch at Basil Thai, I didn’t have to clear my place cause it was Mother’s Day! (OK, today nobody had to do any dishes.) And another nice dinner for the grad & friends in the evening, with wine.</p>
<p>And all my kids were there to see S graduate. And the graduates, besides the usual cap/gown, also had a “stole of gratitude”…which sounds like an accoutrement from some role-playing game, but was actually an accessory they wear and then give to a person who has made a difference in their life. So my DS gave his to me! <em>melt</em> (He knows he was a difficult baby/toddler.)</p>
<p>It was a lovely lovely day. :)</p>
<p>SBmom-
Where’s the new poem? Alumother has a true gift. The next Maya Angelou.</p>
<p>Ivory and jmmom-
I had that exact “cellphone” experience with my older s. It had apparently fallen out of his pocket or something when he was visiting GF in her state, and by the time he realized it was missing, he had to catch a plane back to school in a different state. The very nice, sweet girl who found it (the grass of the apt complex where both the nice girl and s’s gf lived) found my # in the phone and called me (in yet a third state). I gave the nice girl my s’s gf’s phone # , and gf arranged to meet the girl and get the phone. DS happened to have a land line in his house back at school, so I was able to let him know the phone had been located. </p>
<p>Sybbie-
Thanks for the well wishes!! Aren’t you due for equal celebratory bliss??? Congrats to you and chickie too!!!</p>
<p>sluggie! Welcome back, lady. You’ve been missed!</p>
<p>mafool,
I suspect the guys are recovering from their exhausting mothers-day-flower-chocolate-or-card-shopping. Wooses. However, my guys (DH and S#1) are onthe road back home! That’ll be the best (albeit slightly belated) mothers day gift of all.</p>
<p>oohh, crosspost mommusic! Congrats!!!
I have to be over with S#2 for an award ceremony near Emory this evening. Traffic should stink b/c graduation is today. Any SA residents here in Atl for Emory’s graduation???</p>
<p>Wedding planners</p>
<p>Honestly, sybbie, I think we are ready. We can ramp up the catering menu. We’ve been here so many years now, we are “experienced.” I propose that we nix the Chex Mix and move it on up to Pigs In Blanket.</p>
<p>I fear that if we don’t, p3t will hire owlice from the Vigil thread. That gal is competition! Although I think we’ll still get the bar gig. And the poetry-toast-writing assignment.</p>
<p>Has p3t DIL called Chickie yet for Personal Shopper services on the dress/shoes/bags?</p>
<p>Slugg – a Mother’s Day burrito. That’s awesome. </p>
<p>I figured I scored pretty big with two of my three out of towners calling and one sending an e-mail. The in - town kids were forced to attend a play with me. Which they did with hardly any complaining (the little one did mention that she had a sore throat . . .) So, a pretty good day!</p>
<p>For my Mother’s Day my son took me to the movies. We saw Iron Man. And I am reminded all over again, boy my son is the cutest thing in the universe to me.</p>
<p>Then I went out for hamburgers with my best friend and her 3 youngest. All boys. </p>
<p>Other people’s sons are cute to me too. But not as cute as mine is to me:). However, mommusic if your boy gave you something like that in public he’d be pretty high up there in the cute pantheon.</p>
<p>On Mother’s Day, I purchased a new washer. Woo hoo.</p>
<p>However, both out-of-town still-at-college sons did call (one not until 11:30pm his time, and I suspect it was prompted by seeing my AIM Away msg which read something pointed like, “Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers everywhere!”, which candidly I was hoping he would read and be prompted to call – so it worked!). Younger son (the former TFSFH) not only called, but had pre-scheduled delivery of the most heart-melting e-card I could have asked for (although it did tend to focus a little too much on my house-cleaning skills…). I mentioned on the phone to him how much I am looking forward to the new Indy Jones movie (um… I think my comment to him was along the lines of, “OMG I am SO going to see the new Indy Jones movie the MINUTE it comes out!”) and him saying, “Me too it’s gonna be so awesome, hey let’s go see it together when I get home, I’ll take you!” When I agreed, he said, “… and we can see Iron Man in a double-feature!” I declined the double-feature but will definitely take him up on Indy Jones. I know he’ll put up with my gushing over Harrison Ford; he’ll think it’s cute.</p>
<p>And I’ll take him to In-N-Out afterwards. Now, THAT will be a definite ‘Woo hoo!’ evening!</p>
<p>And oh yeah – he told me they’d watched a few scenes from the movie “Spell Bound” in his film class. (I have not seen it.) He said, “There’s this kid in the movie, Henry? As I was watching it, I realized what it must have been like to live with me all those years. I was a real pain in the neck, wasn’t I, how did you ever stand it.”</p>
<p>Could someone who’s seen the movie clue me in to how hyper this Henry character was? (The former TFSFH might be right. )</p>
<p>Ah, Mootie, go for the double feature, you can do it!</p>
<p>Iron Man is a pretty good flick. I enjoyed it quite a bit.</p>
<p>I’ve not seen Spell Bound.</p>