WHAT HAPPENED THIS MOTHER'S DAY

  WHAT HAPPENED THIS MOTHER'S DAY...

                 This Mother's Day:

                                                   Along the regular Cuban-American chatter we had three dogs that were sort of getting acquainted, our Jack Russell, my daughter's Lab and my brother's Shar Pei puppy.

                                                   Sooo, the sweet elderly man we invited from church said his head was spinning! He had led a secluded life in Montana before coming to Florida and this kind of family gathering was a very new experience for him.
                                                 
                                                    The flan was gobbled up first of all even though we had chocolate silk pie, pecan, apple and sweet potato pies. Imagine that! My sister-in-law said we tilted over to the Cuban side of the hyphen on that one!
                                                     We ate a wonderful stuffed turkey prepared by my husband who follows the recipe his grandmother left us.
                                                      But, we also made quite a dent on the Moros Cristianos, my sister-in-law's mother always makes. Something to die for. Christian Moors, a dish made with white rice and black beans.

                This Mother's Day:
                                                     We ate, they barked, we laughed. And at the good-byes the elderly gentleman from church said,
                                                      "There's only family here Marggie. Why did you invite me?"

                                                         "Because you're family now," I said.

                                                           Then ... he cried.