A Mother's Day to Remember

Grandma was doing it again..."Mom! Please put the bread back," my mom, grandma's daughter, was saying as we sat eating at The Babylon Restaurant, where my step dad and I had taken my mom and grandmother for Mother's Day. That was the second time today she had stuffed bread into her handbag!

This was a special treat, though, because for years both my grandmother and mom had always cooked Mother's Day dinners, and we kids just brought gifts, ourselves and helped clean up afterward. The restaurant was family-oriented and not too far from where my mom, step dad and grandmother were living at the time. While it was embarrassing Grandma was sneaking bread into her bag to eat at a later time, it was also an eye opener of sorts. It opened my eyes to the fact that my grandmother felt as if she were still living in the Depression-era, when food was scarce.

Rosanne Catalano clowning around in her kitchen

Credit: by Rosanne Catalano

Copyright: Copyright 2006 by Rosanne Catalano.