Inevitably apart

My little brother and I spent today making our mom happy. We started just past midnight with "Happy Mothers' Day!" to her and our grandmother. I showed them the previous message I put together. After hours of sleep, my brother got me up to prepare a plentiful breakfast of french toast for them. After breakfast, we presented our gifts to them: a floppy white hat for our grandmother, and a wooden wall ornament for our mom. I expected the ornament to be put up in my mom's office at school, but my mom had me put some nails into the wall above her computer, and we hung the ornament there.

Afterward, my brother, my mom, and I spent a few hours on Coronado Island. When we hit the beach, I was the only one in the water. It was pretty cold. My brother admitted to acting like you. Ah well, we had fun exploring the coast. We came across the Hotel Del Coronado and explored its shops. Yes, the hotel has its own mall. We came across a sweets shop with an intoxicating smell, and I got such a filling caramel & sea salt fudge block that I couldn't keep it all to myself. That's both because I wanted my mom and brother to share its deliciousness with me and because it was terribly filling.

On our way home, we ordered some pupusas, and we visited a small rose garden while the order was being filled. We went home to eat, and I poured cayenne all over my pupusas. Watched TV with my brother, watched TV alone, now I'm here at the end of the day. It was fun, and I'm glad that our outing made our mom quite happy.

Normally after these things I say, "I wish you'd been there." Yeah, I do wish that. To my understanding, my brother and mom would have liked that too. However, I realized as quickly as I'd thought it first that you couldn't have spent the day with us anyway. You'd spend the day with your mother, just the same as you probably spent it today. Maybe you could have come over in the evening, but you would have missed the main events. Perhaps you could have slept over yesterday to spend the morning with us today, then I'd have dropped you off with your mom. Still, it was inevitable that we would have spent most of today apart. So, this is one of the few days when I truly could't regret being separated from you; it would have happened this way anyway.

I hope that you and your mother had a lovely day together, sweetie. =]