MUM COMES TO THE SHOW, BUT WHO'S THAT IN HER WHEELCHAIR?
Yesterday, mum came home at last!
After 3 weeks in 2 hospitals, mum finally came home. Now, anyone who knows our family well is aware that mum is a fantastic cook. When it comes to her toaster however, she and the toaster have daily fights over the temperature setting. Mum wins, but the toaster gets it’s occasional revenge and the toast gets burnt in the tussle. It’s a family joke, that such a brilliant, competent cook actually manages to burn the toast.
So how did we welcome mum home? We purposely burnt some toast so that we could welcome her home to the familiar sights, sounds AND SMELLS of her home. Nothing like a good belly laugh. Mum enjoyed the joke immensely.
But the joke didn’t stop there. In trying to remove the toast, I turned the toaster upside down and of course it stopped working. That’s not the first time I’ve done that either, but fortunately our friend Keith had come to visit Mum and he was called on to perform his handyman magic. Once again, he saved the day (and my neck).
Mum settled back into her beloved home straight away, sitting in her lounge room enjoying the greenery and the spectacular views from her front and back lounge windows. We started offering her some home cooked meals and her failing appetite was soon grateful she was home. It was a busy start with lots of visitors and nonstop phone calls from all around the world. She went to bed tired and content.
Today Loretta, Sue, Noor, Mya and I went to the Royal Women’s Hospital ner the city to see a magnificent Mother’s Day Quilt Show. Mother’s Day is 2nd Sunday in May in Australia. All the quilts were made by employees of the hospital – from doctors to cleaners, what talented people! Loretta had hired a wheelchair for mum yesterday, so Mum only had to manage the steps from the house to the car.
There was lots of "ooh"ing and "ahh"ing at the quilt show. And there was more laughter when I nearly lost mum and Mya down the gutter. I never was good at wheelchairs - I hadn’t put the brake on whilst she was on a slope. Mya loved it too, because she got to sit on Yaya’s knee on the wheelchair. She didn't care where we were going - she was just enjoying the ride. So I nearly lost 2 out of the party of 6 in the first few minutes. We also had a great grandprix race to the car - the two of them were giggling like anything as I sped them around giving them a great laugh as they held on to the wheelchair for their lives.
Another funny thing happened. We had taken two cars to the show; Loretta's larger car had the wheelchair in the boot, along with Mya and Noor as her passengers. I took Mum and Sue in my smaller car. There were horrendous road works going on around the hospital and many nearby streets cut off to vehicular traffic, so we parked quite a distance away from each other. After enjoying the show, we put mum back into my car, while Loretta wheeled Mya in the wheelchair back to their car for a bit of fun. But the funny part was that all the workmen stopped their machinery and road-works and helped Loretta wheel Mya across the bumpy uneven road tarmac. Isn’t it nice to know those burly workmen took pity on the little "old" lady (my sister is 5 years my senior) whilst pushing a "pseudo disabled" child across the road works...(sorry for the descriptions Loretta and Mya). But it was a hilarious story.
Mum really enjoyed the Melbourne Autumn weather – it was a brilliant 20+ degrees Celsius and blue skies.
Nick, Jen and Jessica then arrived to wish their mother, grandmother and great grandmother a Happy Mother’s Day.
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