Happy Tuesday was weird happy but Definitely Happy. So my mom has a blood disease called Lupus. It's in remission. She's one of those fighter types, born a premie in 1937 and the oldest of 10. She's the Boss around here. She doesn't let her Lupus get her down. Even though she will tell you all about the countless surgeries and how it will shorten her life span, and she has a handicap thinger for the car because of it. How she lost all of her hair and had to wear wigs and so on.... how she almost died when misdiagnosed and we had to take trips to Santa Barbara to see a specialist every two weeks. She sounds like an old soldier, all brave and matter of fact. But I remember how scarey it was listening to her laying in the back of the car, moaning and crying all the way up the San Marcos Pass. How she had to take steroids and swelled up to almost 3 times her normal size. And of us always being @ the hospital....Which brings me kinda clumsily to how we spent our Happy Tuesday. @ the damn hospital. My mom got sick and I had to take her to emergency. She's fine now. Perfectly fine. She even went to a Martha's Ministry meeting to help w/the Christmas Boutique. But it was a whole Happy Tuesday for me and Pop-pops in the parking lot and nearby park. It was 96 degrees too (!) for some record heat breakin reason. Hot, hot, hot so we were happy in the shade of the Magnolia trees planted in the parkin' lot. I found a whole mess of those seed pod thingies. Ha ha. I Love those things. They remind me of tiny little elegant organic velvety microphone sticks. There I go, being all clumsy-like but I'm sure if you ever played with these as a kid you know what I mean. I Love my Mom is what I mean. She makes the best tortillas in the whole world. I shit you not. Better than her sister, my aunt Big Josie. Better than her best friend Bobbie Villegas. She can whip them out in no time too, from the masa to the rolling them out to putting them right in your hand to fill them with what you will. Oh. They practically melt in your mouth.
5 comments:
I am sorry to hear that your mom is ill. I am glad that you managed to find something happy while in the middle of a trama.
So Happy Tuesday to you, with hugs to all the family.
thank you, have i ever told you that i can tell you have impeccable manners?
i learned how to correct stuff after you publish posts woo hoo
almost e-tard no more....
You can tell that? How!?!? Once I had a drive-thru worker laugh at me because I said please and thank you to him through the speaker.
Yeah - I am a horrible speller, I had to figure out how to edit right away!! Plus in the beginning I had some posting when angry moments - those had to be deleted.....
I am glad to hear that your mom is on the path to wellness again, as well as her illness will allow her to be. I've heard that a horrible disease.
Loving your mom is wonderful.
Beta Fishy, I also say please and thank you to the drive through people, but then again so does everyone I know. I live in North Dakota. :)
I like your description of those cones..."organic velvety microphones"...perfect! Sounds like your mom is one tough cookie and oh my! Reading about her tortillas made my stomach growl! She sounds amazing.
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