Sr Mona
Give us more Sr Mona! Please take her, she’s all yours!! My immediate family would know exactly what I am talking about (especially on the Chelala side). Well, Sr Mona visited me today. As always she showed up announced just as lunch was starting. My Italian is so good that I had no trouble understanding the laughing as I left the refectory. Sr Mona is a Franciscan groupie who had been noisily waiting my arrival for 9 years, the friars duck for cover each time she visits. And when she sees me it’s like one of those scenes at the international airport arrivals gate – smothering me with kisses as I gasp for air through a face full of blue veil. “Yes aunty, I’ve missed you just as much if not more (since last Sunday)” What else am I to say???? You have just gotta love her. I have decided that she deserves an Album all her own. Check out the picture of the two of us together. I’m the tall skinny one – not often I get to say that.
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16:23:00
You have my full empathy cousin!
Thanks Rania. My friends are getting a little wild about Sr Mona. Do you think we could adopt her out and make a few $$$ on the side? Or perhaps we could make ‘Sr Mona Dolls’, could be a real winner.
“Sr. Mona Dolls!!!!!!!!!!!!”
We all know our aunt has a lot of charms. I have not found (yet) one person who can simultaneously beat her kind heart, her culinary skills (when u see my sister roula ask her about ‘one bit auntie -la’oume khalto-, one bite!’) , her encyclopedic knowledge about herbs (did she share that with you yet? about the 99 benefits of onions?!)her academic studies in History and Psychology. All of the above plus more are all mixed up to make her a unique person.
Adopting is such a serious business though so I am thinking more along the lines of ‘investing’ in her knowledge by sifting and organizing.
what do you think?
Are all your family sooooo darn cute!! Can I put my name on the waiting list please.
Your hardworking article gains my admiration, can we be friends?