Today is Mom's birthday. I am preparing the meal she requested, a beef roast with mashed potatoes and gravy and green beans. Yesterday afternoon I made tomato Parmesan bread so we'll probably dip into that as well.
She didn't want any gifts but we got her one anyway. She would have done the same.
When we were children and celebrating a birthday, Mom would decorate the kitchen table with streamers and balloons. Sometimes there was a theme like Holly Hobby or The Six Million Dollar Man. This took place while we were at school so it was a surprise when we would arrive home, the table in full bloom with presents. As we got older we expected it but the thrill was just the same. She still does this to an extent.
HApPy BiRtHDaY MoM!!
Happy belated birthday to your mother. That meal was what my mother made every Sunday morning when I was a kid, and in the winter, the beans would be what she had frozen from the summer before.
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