M is for Marvelous
When you were 7 or 8, Mother’s Day was never a problem … a big gap-toothed grin, a grubby fist full of battered dandelions, and a sheet of construction paper, folded lengthwise and scrawled with crayoned sentiments and artwork … you were “golden.” The most important woman in your eight or so years knew beyond doubt that she was adored beyond words, beyond flowers, beyond poetry and cards, handmade or otherwise.
These days, however, the celebration is a bit harder. You are presumably less grubby and gap-toothed. Your mother can just buy what she wants or needs (probably not dandelions). Or she insists that she doesn’t want things; she has too much “stuff” already. But you still want to do something marvelous for Mother’s Day because Mom is a marvelous woman, important to your life, and adored.
This Mother’s Day, think creatively! Almost any occasion is improved with a bag of bakery-fresh cookies. Or how about a queenly breakfast — farm fresh eggs with bright yellow yolks (any style but burnt), sauteed mushrooms, wholesome oatmeal bread, toasted and spread thickly with homemade preserves? Or a sumptuous supper made extra-special by a juicy, grass-fed steak with tender new mixed salad greens from a local greenhouse? Never better than fresh! Dress up the table with a tablecloth and a pot pourri of spritely greenhouse flowers that will double as a hanging basket on her porch once the frosts are finally gone for good. All that is missing is the gap in your teeth.
The best news is that there is the opportunity for one-stop shopping for all these items and more. The Presque Isle Farmers Market opens at 9 a.m. on the Saturday prior to Mother’s Day in their usual location in the parking lot at the Aroostook Centre Mall. Multiple venders are eagerly waiting the opportunity to serve you (and your marvelous mom!) starting the 8th of May.
Editor’s note: This weekly column is written by members of the Presque Isle Farmers’ Market. For more information or to join, contact their secretary/treasurer Steve Miller of Westmanland at 896-5860 or via e-mail at beetree@xpressamerica.net.
