It’s always Mother’s Day
Another Mother’s Day in the books. Son #1 got me a great card and signed everyone’s name. DIL#2 had picked out a gift for me months ago and put a “reminder” on it so she would remember to get it for me. She looped my other daughters-in-law in, and it was a really beautiful and thoughtful gift. I really do love my girls.
I got to zoom with Danish and her sister and their mom. Danish kept saying, “Babka you come to door in new house? You come to open door in new house?”
Which translates into, “Babka, are you coming to our new apartment? Are you???” Yes, they just moved from an 89-step hike to a, thank God, 15- to 20-step hike. I am very proud of them, and because food is love, they moved right across from a really yummy bakery that sells the best garlic bread. It’s a shame they still don’t have the 89 steps that I used to use to work off the bread…but you can’t have everything, right? Wishing them only good health and mazal in the new abode.
God willing, I will see them in July, unless the Houthis screw that up for me, and then no one is going to be happy.
Part One of Mother’s Day was going to visit my mother-in-law in Fort Lee, which is always a good time, especially if she gives us old benchers or knickknacks to take home. (This time, fortunately, she did not.)
Part Two of Mother’s Day was “the hike” that Husband #1 said he was going to take me on. My favorite place is Nyack Beach State Park. I am pretty sure that I have written about the spectacular views, the chance to walk on an actual beach, and did I mention the spectacular views? It really is worth the drive.
When we pulled up into the line of cars, Husband #1 said, “Do we have to pay for parking? We have never had to pay for parking!” Uh oh….we finally got to the head of the line and discovered that it is $8 a car, but, alas, all of the lots are full. Hmmm. What to do? what to do?
We u-turned out of there and found parking on a side street that was about half a mile away. The prospect of taking a hike was slowly dwindling. We walked back to the park, “hiked” up two big inclines and then found the first empty bench so we could “rest” after all the “strenuous activity.” We took in the spectacular view, and then Husband #1 said, “Ok, let’s go back and get lunch.”
Happy Mother’s Day to me? Back to the car we walked, into the car we went, and off to have lunch we did go.
Pizza in Monsey is up to $4.50 a slice. Wow. My falafel was $12, but that is because it comes with a very cute chayal (just kidding). Husband #1’s Fanta was $3.50 and I just drank my lemonade from my water bottle that I had brought for the “hike.” And then back to the car we went, for Part Three of Mother’s Day.
Part Three was visiting my mom in Fair Lawn. That is always a treat. Every time I go to see her, I take a visit down memory lane to my childhood bedroom to see what treasures I can find. This past week’s treasure was the dollar bill that I got from the rebbe. Turns out, I didn’t get it from the rebbe. My parents got it for me at the Rutgers Chabad dinner in 1993.
Apparently, they gave out these dollars in envelopes with a message from the rebbe as a party favor.
Why is this relevant? Well, it really isn’t relevant, but it did solve a mystery for me. All of these years I couldn’t remember meeting the rebbe to get this dollar, when all along, I never really met him.
So all in all, it was a pretty pleasant day. The weather was spectacular, I didn’t have three TBO (Teaneck Baseball Organization) games to go to, and I did, finally, get to take a good walk. Nothing wrong with that at all.
Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck was very grateful to see almost all her pastries on Mother’s Day. Technology is truly amazing!
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