Category Archives: mom

mariachi

my parents went to an 80th birthday party so my dad sent several photos via mms + e-mail

this was followed by my mother calling to hold the phone up for me to hear.  i wonder where they got the idea that i have a love for mariachi?

questions my mom has about baseball

 

- but who is the one that’s supposed to run? the one with the bat?
- so do they take turns?
- does he run with his bat or does he drop his bat?
- can anybody catch it? 

 

all russians know mom

<my mom is originally from russia, as in she still has an accent and her name sounds russian>

grandmother went shopping in philadelphia with her daughter<my aunt> and a russian woman helped them in the fitting room.  grandmother asked the salesperson if she knew my mother – and oddly the salesperson said that she did.  this is particularly funny because my mother never uses her real name in department stores – especially with a russian salesperson.  it’s one of her strange quirks about not wanting to speak in her native tongue and so she tends to use my name instead.