Happy Mother’s Day to mothers everywhere.
Celebrating the occasion required a bit of creativity this year. My own mother died some years ago, my wife, Jeanette’s mother died last year, and Jeanette’s daughter now lives about 2,500 miles away, back in Houston. But Jeanette came up with a clever way to overcome that distance, and share a Mother’s Day brunch together with her daughter.
They both got dressed up. Jeanette decorated the table (or in this case, actually her desk) with a vase of various flowers cut on our property, including a flowering branch from an apple tree. Then they each had a special Sunday morning breakfast, which they ate while leisurely visiting together by video-call via Skype.
Here’s what Jeanette had for breakfast:
Coffee, a Mimosa made with orange juice and champagne, and I cooked her buckwheat pancakes, made from locally grown and ground buckwheat, topped with butter from a local creamery, sorghum syrup and local blackberry flower honey, an egg laid by our next-door neighbors’ chickens, and a piece of English-style uncured back bacon. It was delicious (I had the same).
Jeanette's Mother's Day breakfast
May you all have a wonderful day.