We just celebrated Mother's Day and it was another huge Family event. Not everyone could come but we had good representation of the family who live here. Doug and Kristina and their kids were there, Emily and Mike brought their repective families from Mapelton Cheryl and Paul brought their eight kids, Becca and Paul came as did Cathy and Pete.
It is wonderful to see them all. they all came on time which was a first and another first was the roast and everything was ready to eat on their arrival. Mom said we should have Prime Rib roast. "Are you sure?" I wondered but it was Mother's Day so I picked out a 10 pound Prime Rib roast. When she saw the cost she was taken back and said, "I can't tell the difference between a rump roast and a prime rib roast!" "Ahhhhh everyone else can!" So we perfectly roasted the Prime Rib and it was super great. I think 43 sat down to dinner. There was a traffic jam on our street. Salads were brought and other treats. Mom did the baked potatoes and it was great. It was topped off by Mom's all time favorite, angle food cake layered with ice cream. This brought back a lot of memories. When Al and Paul arrived with their kids from their trip, we fed 51 all totaled. It was great.
Mom did not want any gifts and asked all to take the fund that would have gone into a gift and put it in their food storage which is what everyone did. I bought Mom a top of the line Katadyn water filter for our emergency supply. Not romantic but practical and needed. Cathy brought 17 eggs from her back yard chickens with the names of Mom's children written on them. How are we supposed to eat them? "What do you want for breakfast?" "I'll have Doug and Mike over easy?"
She had a game for Family Night where she chose grandchildren to get up and say what they liked about their Mothers and what would they do to help a little more. Family Night with that group is a little chaotic but we got it done!
We are grateful for wonderful and unusual Mothers, we are grateful for great wives and we are grateful for daughters all of whom we honor on this special Sunday.
Alles Gute, Dad
7 comments:
Dad, I'm glad that Mom enjoyed her eggs! We had a fun time at your house! Always a great celebration! I hope you don't find any bad eggs in the bunch!! ha!
Dad, looks like fun. Hey can I borrow that water filtration Machine here in Mexico City? I could see if it actually works :)
Hey Cathy.. if we have a ?bad egg" in that bunch, it will have a name on it!
Hey Dad that was a lot of fun. Can you email me the picture of all the moms and the kids--it is fuzzy on the blog. Thanks for cooking us moms a great meal.
Hallo,
es ist so unglaublich. Eine solch grosse Familie kann man sich in Deutschland nicht vorstellen. Was mir aber noch viel mehr Bewunderung abverlangt ist, dass Ihre Frau immer laecheld. Es scheint so als ob sie nie etwas umhauen kann. Sie ist wirklich gossartig.
Wollen sie nicht mal nach Cottbus kommen. Den Vortrag ueber Joseph Smith Krankheit wuerde ich gern hoeren.
Ich liebe es auf Ihrem Blog sein. Danke das ich das darf und das sie so viel schreiben.
Viele Gruesse
Marita Muench
Danke Schwester Muench; Maryist tatsachlich grossartig. Sie hat kein graues Haar und ist sehr gesund. Wir werden ihren 70 Geburtstag am Wochenende feiren.
Wir hoffen dass wir einmal Deutschland besuchen koennen.
Alles Gute
Cathy's eggs made me laugh. Did you ever eat them? Tell mom that I went to the cannary for her.
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