Happy Birthday Mama!!

My mother turned 60 yesterday and in her true style, she celebrated this milestone as well - with friends and family who had flown across the world to be with her on this day. My mom is someone who thinks each event in life needs to be celebrated with the appropriate pomp and splendour - I think this is to give each event its due importance. She is the one who insists I need to have a 'birthday' party every year even in years when I'm sick at the very thought - due to imagined crises or horror at the thought of being so old[quarter of a century?? I'm like ready to kick the bucket!!]. I only hope that when I'm her age, I have the same things to show for my life - my mother has never held a 'corporate' job [not that I want to - life makes me!] to her chagrin but when I think what she does hold - I want the same things.

If my mother is not in the house/gone on holiday, my father cannot entertain himself - I have fun counting the number of times he walks up and down my house looking for occupation. My mother is the only one who can make him sit in one place for 15 minutes at a time - Trust me this is an accomplishment!! I can only pray that after 33 years of marriage, my husband cannot sit without me around!

I cannot go out in public without her checking my clothes - my mother has to validate all my clothing purchase decisions. If I really need advice - not just opinions - my mother is who I will turn to. If we fight [ which we do...trust me...she keeps a clean house and I inherited a messy gene from my da], neither of us can last a week without talking to each other. Again,I can only pray that if and when I have a daughter, I will be her best friend as well.

My mother is the youngest of 3 sisters and she was born much later - 6 yrs after the 2nd. For them also, my mother is a pillar - support, decisions etc. For her neice/my cousin, my mother is a combination of elder sister/crazy friend rolled into one. For my grandparents, she was a joy - often quoting the reason for her nature as 'the child born on the sabbath day is bonnie and bright and good and gay'!

My mom has a friend who says my mother did something very good in her last life that she landed in clover in this life - I think I did something better apparently - I got her as my mother!

P.S. I just know I was perfect in my last life - I got my mother, my father is the best person I know, my family adores me and I have fantastic friends!! just waiting for Prince Charming on the white horse to carry me off into the sunset....but then again, as I always say, I get travel sick!