Birthday season
Today is my maman’s birthday. Living so far kills me several times a year (for many different reasons), and today is one of them – birthdays always do it to me (and November is populated with them! Nephews Scott and Flavio, and maman Renée – damn you!!)
A few things about my mother:
- She is a chemical engineer (imagining her with a lab coat and goggles cracks me up every time).
- In her notes and diaries, she refers to me as ‘Sa’. Shorter than my full name and descriptive enough I won’t be confused with my sister (who also has a name starting with S).
- She loved the year 2000 because whenever she wrote it down, she had the feeling she was drawing a stylised Lochness monster.
- She taught me not to follow fashion and to be persistent until you get what is rightfully yours.
- She falls asleep in front of the tv, wakes up puzzled and asks about what she missed. Which I always found annoying until I did exactly the same thing with Christian in front of ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid‘.
- She is not usually very patient but when others are involved she makes an effort.
- She loves sudoku and hates to cook.
- She is about 15 cm (6″) shorter than me and exploits me by asking me to get things out of tall cupboards when I’m around.
Happy Birthday Maman! I love you!
J’adore ton post! Ben nous non plus, on n’aime pas les anniversaires quand t’es pas là!
T’as oublié de dire qu’elle cuit ses steaks au micro-onde (Denis a failli faire une syncope quand il l’a appris), qu’elle écoutait “tomber la chemise” et les VRP à fond dans sa voiture et qu’elle déménage son séjour au moins 3 fois par an!
Je t’aime
Sophie
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