Mother's Day Fantasy

 
 Wake up.

Close my eyes.

Smell my fresh sheets.
Smell bacon. donuts. croissant. fritatta.
?
smile

Hear coffee beans being ground.

Get a little giddy.

Open my eyes.

Look at the sun shine through the leaves of the Oak tree.

Get up as espresso is steaming on stove

Take shower, leisurely like.

Hear whipping cream being beaten for crepes.

Get dressed, leisurely like. From an array of outfits.

Listen to boys chop strawberries and wash blueberries.

and say please and thankyou

Put in some earrings.

Hear crepes being flipped

Sit down in the sun in the living room.

Have coffee served by one of my boys - grey haired or fair.

Get kissed Happy Mother's day x4

Sip while reading the paper.

 

See my sons setting table for breakfast.

with no fighting

Be asked to sit at table.

Admire lovely hand made cards and flowers that are not carnations/roses/gladiolas/big tropicals

Be served some bubbly and orange juice.

Eat lovely crepes, observe son's delight in eating and having made what we're eating

Have a second coffee with grey haired boy in living room while fair haired are doing dishes

 Sit in sun in living room until it fades at noon

or more realistically

go to mother-in-law's for dutch gebakje's and coffee

eat too many pink or mocha iced gebakjes

not terribly difficult

grey and fair haired boys bring a little something for Nana without my organizing it

get dropped off at a bookstore

pick out one book

 just one

walk home and pick up Rhubarb from Maggie's garden

Eat light lunch (cheese, fruit) with wine in the sun out in the garden

while watching boys wrestle with Ruby and eachother

pick rhubarb from my garden

wash all rhubarb and chop into small chunks, add sugar and stir

await  my parent's arrival and the arrival of Rhubarb pie ingredients

give mom a little something

put together pie with mom and put in oven

drink tea

Take pie out of oven

Make Strawberry Martinis for mom and me

walk over with everyone to Tokyo Bay Japanese restaurant

drink tea in a curtained booth

eat yummy food together

walk home after dinner, listen to birds

smell the lilacs

have coffee and rhubarb pie together for dessert

have son(s) drop off  some pie over at Maggie's

 say goodbye to parents

sit and have another strawberry martini...

 while youngest goes to bed

watch movie with another strawberry martini

while two oldest go to bed

Fall asleep on couch with empty martini glass

Go to bed and read new book

sleep with the window open

hope my grey haired lover, father of my children reads this

though he might be busy