Mother's Day 2010

Mother's Day this year was both a pleasure and a pain for me - a pleasure because both my men did their best to keep me happy, and a pain because I missed my own mother who passed away last year. My mother's death has taught me what a great role a mother plays in the lives of her children, the untold sacrifices she makes her entire life for her family, and the unconditional love she extends towards them. Strange that her death should bring home this truth to me, not that I didn't know, but only that I hadn't realized it until now! I love and miss my Mom and I hope somewhere from the netherworld, my Mom is aware of how I feel. Rest in Peace, Mummy!

Mother's Day never comes and goes without its incumbent benefits - breakfast in bed, gifts galore, brunch/lunch/dinner at a fancy restaurant, not to mention the cabernet sauvignon, the pinot grigio or the yellow tail. Mothers usually milk it for all its worth on this day, and only wish every single day were Mother's Day in their lives. The best part I loved this year was that the husband had made reservations at the Kirin Seafood Restaurant at the Starlight Casino in New Westminster, knowing very well my partiality to seafood. The multi-course meal was fantastic, a plethora of seafood before me - fish, shrimp, crab, you name it - and the requisite meat dishes of course, without which the kid would've pulled a long face. I have to make a special mention of the spicy crab dish here, something that was divine and made me think I had died and gone to heaven!

An added bonus was not the clothes shopping at Calvin Klein, but my visit to the Renaissance Bookstore in New West. Since we had an hour before our lunch reservation, that was my special time to browse and take in the heady smell of the books in print. E-books be damned, the printed version is an aphrodisiac to me! I simply love the smell and touch and colours and feel of the books arranged in all their glory! I vowed to myself that this was a place I'd return to, again and very soon at that. I couldn't have enough of the Spirituality, Theology, History, and Occult sections in the bookstore. My hunt for a translation of the Upanishads was in vain, but I still managed to buy a book on the Bible Code and a few more on Buddhist mysticism. So that's some delightful reading for me in the days to come!

All in all, a thoroughly enjoyable Mother's Day 2010, need I say?!!?