Mama's Mopine

With the passing of my mama recently, I am always delighted when I come across something that was so dear to her and our family.


My mother never kept paper towels or napkins, only mopines. A mopine is an italian term for napkin, hand towel, or wash cloth.

The listing reads...
mopine (moh peen, with the long e). A mopine was a dish towel that my mama and her family always kept by the stove. You would never, and I mean never move that mopine on Sundays. If you moved that mopine off the counter, and accidentally used it for another purpose, or placed it in the hamper, she would say, "where isa my mopine???bringa back the mopine". Never mess with the woman's mopine. No, Sundays are not Sundays without her favorite mopine.

LOVE.IT. * I bought two *

Ode to Mamas

Ahhh... me and my mini me (p.s. my son, Shamus, refuses to take a picture with me! he's 10). She looks and acts like me (uh oh!). Tomorrow I will awake with my two babies and I am so thankful. Thankful for their health and for their happiness. In all that is life, there is so much to be thankful for.

We will go to where my mother rests peacefully tomorrow and say Happy Mother's Day for the first time with out her spirit on Earth. I bought her a hydrangea plant today, it looks just like the one she gave me last year for Mother's Day. She always honored me as a mother, that was the type of mother and woman she was.

Tomorrow is a day for honoring. Gifts are lovely... but tomorrow I am thankful. Thankful for gift of motherhood and having been blessed with having her in my life.

May the light shine upon you and within you. Jai Beghwan.