The Day After

We went to a big party yesterday in Virginia. My two youngest grandkids'birthday party.
It was an all you can eat Chinese buffet and the most delightful and plentiful buffet one could attend. It was fun seeing the other side of the family and eating and gorging and having a pleasant time.

No one tries to one up another as at many American parties. No one shows up in fancy clothes or
fancy attitudes. No one is there to brag other than to show off their children or grandchildren.
No one has to cook and clean the house before the party.

Everyone is there to be happy and grateful that they are there. Everyone is delighted to be sharing in this event that is important not only to the three year old but to his one year old sister even though she is probably not aware of it. She sat like a mensh (decent and good) person she already is and ate some Asian food from a chopstick with Mommie helping her and eating her plain old Cheerios with delight.

Everyone is there to be filled in the tummy to the limit and to drive home ( in our case 90 miles) wondering why we ate so much and where is the Tums bottle. Everyone is thrilled to be important enough to say these are my grand babies, these are my grand niece and nephew and these are my main assets in life.

All are one and one are all because we are all there for the same blessing. We are related to these darlings and their parents in one way or the other. In my case, this is my baby and his babies.
This is my second born whose very name makes me filled with pride on what he has accomplished and this is my accomplishment.

From one ( me) joined with my husband to my daughter, to my son ,my baby still in my mind, even though he is forty-three,to their spouses, to the first two grandsons who are teens now to these babies one and three who delighted us in the last three years while my husband and I are in our senior mode, this is our blessing, our gift, our miracles and our love.

So eating at the buffet honoring their both births in the month of August is surely a prediction of our future and lasting happiness. Even though seniors in my mom's time were considered old and aged and sickly, we new seniors are positive, perfect and present. We are here to show our grandchildren that oldsters are still young at heart and we can teach little things from the past and this enhances their lives by knowing what was and what can be.

So the Chinese buffet also included an aisle of delight, delectable and deserving items.The delight in being there and witnessing the blowing out of the candles on the cakes for the two of them, the delectable Asian food and the deserving of the older folks, the two sets of grandparents, a great, great aunt on the other side, and the aunts and uncles of the birthday children.

This is a melting pot of two families, one who happen to be Asian and one who happen to be Caucasian, religions of Catholic and Judaism noted there too. This is America, this is the 2008 moments and this is the most splendid thing there is.

Keep on Living, Loving and Learning...

Elita