Mother's Day was always an interesting adventure in the Montgomery-Chamberlyn household, and with the addition of one "Hope" child, Giulia didn't expect that it was going to get much better. Not to mention, this year they had needed to do something for Yvainey, since the babies were still too little. Giulia and Aidan already celebrated two mothers- Jada and the stranger who had let them live in her tummy, then gone to Heaven when she and Aidan were still babies. One more mother really wouldn't be a bother to them, and Giulia was happy to help pick up the slack where her little sibling-cousin-things were involved. The teachers didn't like hearing about their first mother, shuffling awkwardly when they mentioned her, so they had always did their mother's day preparations with their sister in mind. Or wound up having to. This year was going to be different.
Both Jada and Vainey had gotten a little card purse that they had made out of construction paper, with the rest of the class. Giulia and Aidan had both done half the work on each purse, so they could say it was from both of them. And they had colored these fluffy little coffee filter flowers with the class, and that was fun.
Their teacher had brought in all kinds of colored markers, and some little paper squishy-fluff things (they hadn't actually seen a coffee filter before, so that had been an experience) and then there had been waxy papers, and fuzzy wire thingies. They had scribbled all kinds of colors on the filters, and then they had sprayed water on it. Just a little water, but it made the marker colors get all mixy, and 'bleedy' even though there was no bleeding? And then they had put all the filters on the waxy paper and let them dry until the next day, in the window.
Then, they'd had to do like, oo gi gamey or something and make all the colors fold, and then flip, and the teacher had helped them tie the fuzzy pipes, and then they had done something to make all the colors really fluffy, and wound up with flowers! Aidan had made a whole dozen of the flowers, cause he was a mama boy, even though Jada wasn't actually their mom, and Vainey wasn't either. Giulia had just made 3, one for each of the mothers they had to celebrate, even though their first mother couldn't come and visit them from Heaven. The teacher had helped them 'plant' all the flowers in little pots (though Aidan only got to plant a few of his because he was selfish and made too many) and that helped them stay up right.
Then they had gotten ink, and used their fingers to paint cards! That was always fun. Not as fun as the macaroni frames they had gotten to make in second grade, but a lot more fun than having to just be boring and use crayons and markers again! At least... it had been fun, until one of the little boys in her class had decided to eat the paints. Boys really were so dumb, they were like- the stupidest. Giulia had taken lots of pictures of her hard work to send to Lucia, and to send to cookie, and to send to Yvaine, because she was really proud. But she couldn't send the pictures to Yvaine because it was supposed to be a surprise. So it was just Lucia and Cookie.
They had put the little 'planters' carefully in their backpacks that Friday, the cards secure in their little folders, to keep them from crinkling. Giulia, at least, was excited- this weekend would be fun, and she had gifts for all kinds of important people! MAybe she'd even be able to convince Aidan to give a thank-you flower to Cookie? That would be nice...
Still, as she pulled the pots and cards out from their backpacks, setting them where things would not fold or bend or fall over before they could be presented, Giulia wondered what other families were like. The ones with only one mom, who hadn't gone to Heaven, and maybe not twins, so everything had to be done all by themselves. Was it lonelier? Was it better? Was it harder? Or was it just... different?
Her lips pursed, and she considered it, as she pulled out her ballet practice clothes and ran downstairs to get ready to exercise.
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