Mother's Day in Luigi's

I got a lovely email from Luigi's today telling me how much Mam would like it. I'm pretty sure she would. I dragged her there a couple of times and the look she gave me when whatever I ordered her came out. She was hilarious. Then she'd get tiddly on a glass of wine, try and wrestle me when I went to pay for us and generally give out. Ah fond times. I usually would win the wrestling. She'd claim it was because of her arthritis. Pffft. In Swedish. I think I might have to stick around with the kid for the day as opposed to standing by the grave looking miserable and hoping someone might notice me :) I'm a divil for the dramatic moments I am.

The sister has annouced she is home for a week in May! She's coming home for the Mass and then staying until the Sunday. So I'm going to take the Friday of that weekend off and spend the day with her. It will be cool to have her home for a few days. Got a txt from the kid yesterday announcing she was 'having a bad day' and was off to hang with one of the mates. Just like that? Despite the fact that we have a rule of no hanging on a school night. You'd never know she was sitting her Leaving Cert in less then a few months. She's so blase about the whole thing. Another 93 euros this week, the money will barely be in the account when its leaving it again for her. This time a fee for sitting the exam. I don't ever remember paying a fee to sit your exam? Education these days , costs a fortune.

Last night was more work and then sleep. Never before have I enjoyed crawling into bed at 9.30 as much. For sleep that is ;) I awoke at around 10 thinking it was nearly morning and did a sleepy dance when I realised how early it was.

She was a terror to get up this morning. As I was leaving, she casually, too casually for my liking mentioned she'd be hanging with the mate at the weekend. This is not news. It was the additional bit she murmured under her breath whilst enroute to the kitchen that got my interest. "Oh yeah and D will be hanging around as well" I responded by asking who D was "Oh you remember him from last year, you know..." I didn't and asked for clarification. She waved it off as the usual over protective parent bit. I need to be protective around her, espeically now the word is out that she's single. I think I need to get some sort of spray like you get from the vet when your dog goes into heat. Not that I'm comparing my kid to a dog. Just something similar would be nice. I had thought she might go off men for a while, perhaps the 10 minutes over the weekend was the while. Who knows.