Posts Tagged ‘mom’

I saw a picture of the cutest cupcake liner flowers floating around and thought it would be a nice thing to give my Mother. Mom doesn’t like real flowers—her classic line is, “They smell like funerals.” Fair enough. So I figured these cheerful little paper blooms would be perfect for her Mother’s Day card, which will be exploding with Lotto Scratch-Off tickets. And as you know, I can never resist a project that uses what I already have lying around the house. Turns out, those leftover cupcake liners from 2 […]

Flowers remind my mother of funerals. I remember her uttering this notion to my father many times when I was a kid. And around the holidays I recall hearing, “Well, so-and-so sent an expensive arrangement but she knows I don’t like flowers.” It’s the standard mixed bouquet in particular that generates “funeral perfume.”  The arrangement consists of dyed carnations, Madonna lily, Peruvian lily, roses, asters, and a few other fillers. The older you get, the more funerals you attend and you start to take notice of these things. And you […]