spacemonkeyluvn | Even though you'll never see it

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!

I promise I won't tell anyone how old you are ^_^

My brother and I are going home tomorrow after work. Saturday we're spending the day in Japantown and then we're going to see Journey to the Center of the Earth because my mom likes Brendan Fraser. Hopefully this weekend I'll also be able to redye my hair.

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So, out of the four brothers she has, my mom only wanted me to send a graduation announcement to two. A little while ago, one of them (who got an announcement) calls my 92 year-old grandmother, his mother, bitching about how I didn't put his wife's name on the announcement. I'd like to point out that my grandmother's health is declining and she can barely understand what's going on. And my mother is the only one of her 5 children who is taking care of her. So yeah. He calls her to bitch about me I guess. I don't know. All I know is that my mom was PISSED. Instead of being happy for her child on a very important day, all he does it complain. I felt bad because it was not intentional. I didn't leave her name off of the announcement because I hated her or was trying to say something. My mom had to give me his address and only his name was written with it. To be honest, we rarely see or hear from her family so I don't know them all that well anyway. I was only sending them announcements because it was important to my mom. I was extremely tempted to send a Thank You card to them (with BOTH names) thanking them for being childish and putting more stress on my mother. If my uncle had any balls, he could have talked to ME about it. I normally don't like any kind of confrontation or knowing that I may have hurt somebody's feelings, but you don't mess with my family. Especially my mom.

The point of this story was to say that yesterday, I got a package from the other brother who got an announcement. He was the one my mother called to tell him what their brother had said/done. His response was to congratulate my mom on raising me well and that she should be very proud of herself as well as her daughter. I know that meant a lot to my mom. She feels alone most of the time and to have someone tell her she did a good job was really something she needed to hear. From someone other than her own children.

But yeah, the package. So my mom called me and asked me if she could open it for me. This uncle's wife travels all over the world for her job (although I'm not sure what that job is). And it seems that she was in China when my mom told them what her other brother did. Turns out, while in China, she got me a pearl necklace with each pearl individually selected and strung together while my aunt watched, as well as a pair of pearl earrings.

I have to say, as touched as I am (and I am - I've always wanted pearls), I think this means even more to my mom. To know that at least someone in her family cares about her and her children. Obviously it didn't have to be as much as pearls from China, but the thought that comes with it. I just hope this makes her a little happier on her birthday.