mother daughters day

unexpected joy is the best kind, isn't it?

after church today, worm mom, wormball, and I went out to lunch and costco! (let me now proclaim my love of costco...i think it's totally the see lai in me...but I love it! which reminds me..."senior"...we must do our see lai trip sometime soon!)

lunch was at this semi-ghetto place @ the chinese mall close to canadian tire...it's called some kind of "dai pai dong". the food is pretty good there...best noodles i've ever had! we always get their mein bein to bring home after. my mom is famous for her horror stories; today she told us one about a kid who cut his toenails too deep, had an infection, and had to chop off his toe. (the goal was to get wormball to properly cut her toenails)

I then said to wormball (translate in your head into chinese...you might catch the cultural reference): "once, a child misbehaved...and the next day...he DIED." My mom laughed so hard that she spat out some tea...which lead to all of us making a fool out of ourselves laughing in a public restaurant. i hadn't laughed so hard in a while.

anyways...after a long and yummy lunch, we proceeded to hit up costco! i saw this lovely italian artist easel set...and turned into a 6-year old subsequently. (which means that I took the thing...carried it to mom and went..."mommy...LOOK!")
She said that she'd like to buy it for me for Christmas...but I'm not sure yet...I don't want anyone to waste money on me.

with groceries in tow, we dropped some stuff off at mom's apartment...and also stayed for coffee and treats. it's the first time i've been there, and there was this sense of deja-vu seeing some of the objects that once belonged in my home there. a re-appropriation of the senses, i suppose. I made coffee, and proceeded to try out the grand piano. you should have heard my mother attempt to sing "how great is our God"...which was more like: "da dee, da dee dum...DA DA DI...da di da dee dum". i hadn't enjoyed playing the piano so much in a while...probably because I didn't have the burden of all my music and was just playing whatever I wanted to in my head.
funny thing too...worm mom complimented me twice...in ONE DAY. i won't say what she said...but it did make me feel warm and fuzzy inside=)

today was a good day.