Points For Mother’s Day

Russ and I took my Mom out to a new restaurant for Mother’s Day lunch today. Thankfully Gradutions were taking place during lunch time so we were able to snag a reservation at a new place, TeTaco in downtown Durham.

My Mom is always happy to be taken out to lunch, especially on Sundays so she can eat half her lunch and take the other half home for dinner. When I was away a couple of weeks ago Russ took my Mom to some hole in the wall Mexican place and he thought she liked it. So he suggested this New Mexican place.

It’s not that she likes Mexican so much. She just wants to go anywhere. She made more than one comment that this place was so much nicer than the last place. Russ needs to read the cues, just because she is happy to go out does not mean she liked the place. Thankfully she did like TeTaco.

My favorite thing she said was, “Mother’s Day must be a new thing. I don’t remember ever doing anything for Mother’s Day before.”

She might be right. I don’t think we ever made a big deal about Mother’s Day when I was a kid. I remember other women coming to church with orchid corsages, but none for my my mother.

My Dad always cooked breakfast on weekends so Mother’s Day was no different than any other Sunday. We always brought my mother coffee in bed on everyday, so Mother’s Day was no different. She had us well trained to wait on her on regular days. No wonder she didn’t think it was celebrated. She was smart, get us to do things for her all the time.

Well, now we have messed it up and taken her out on Mother’s Day. Guess I know what we are doing next year.