What are your Mother’s Day plans? Brunch or breakfast in bed? Ada and I have brunch plans with Bob and cousin Nancy.
We’ve been reading up on the upcoming royal wedding! A self-confessed Anglophile, I can’t get enough of Meghan and Harry. By all accounts, this Mothers Day will find Doria Ragland sitting with the Queen and her daughter Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle for high tea.
Ragland is a geriatric social worker who raised her only daughter alone, and sounds like an amazing “free spirit.” I wonder if Harry knows his new mother-in-law-to-be is a certified yoga instructor as well?
My MIL is a certified sex therapist, just sayin, and while talking with Great Grandma Ada this last week, I’ve learned a bit more about my husband’s family dynamics. I now understand how Bob is doubly related to some cousins – and if you happen to be watching “The Marvelous Mrs Maisel” on Netflix, you would be getting a taste of Ada’s early married life.
On her wedding day in 1946, her mother-in-law walked right up to her and said, “My mother isn’t here because of your family!”
Turns out the woman was a Zionist and went to Israel, so much for the art of inflicting guilt!
Anyway, I won the lottery when I married into Bob’s family because of Ada! I’ve been watching her face light up every time she opens a card and celebrating every new step. Learning how to walk again after breaking a hip is hard work at 93, and every call, visit, card and flower are helping to mend her bones. Her windowsills are bursting with cards! As one friend wrote:
“Remember that our minds create opportunities for our bodies and hearts to heal.”
In my mind I’ll be creating a fascinator for the Big Day, and hoping for a speedy recovery! Happy Mother’s Day to all y’all!
MountainMornings 
You’re so lucky to have a wonderful mother in law. I never met mine as she died shortly after my husband graduated college. I feel gypped! But I have my mother, who’ll be 88 soon. And I hope I’m a good mother in law to my dil’s.
Happy Mother’s Day to you!
Chris keeps writing about ggma Ada..but the real hero is Chris. She has without question saved my life with her cheer and devotion. She is my everlasting best friend and she brings good bagels. Ada
Chris has saved my life with her devotion, care and sense of humor.she is my role model and when I grow up I want to be just like like her..ada