Happy Mother's Day!!

The PPP would like to wish every yummy mummy a Happy Mother's Day today and to especially wish my mummy a happy mother's day as she is my raison d'etre!

I have decided to honor her with by writing a list of ten things you may not know about my mom but I do and I think this is what makes her special. And there are:

1. She is an "empath" which means she is a person who has an acute or highly developed sense of empathy. When something is happening to someone else whether in real life or in a movie it is also happening to her. She has a hard time watching sad movies or witnessing embarrassing moments as she feels there are happening to her.

2. She hates when men tell her what to do or try to boss her around (even a certin little cute male Maltese). She is quite sure this is why she isn't married or is attracted to men with commitment issues.

3. Her favorite secret recipe is a sandwich she use to make for herself when she was a little girl. Two slices of Wonderbread (not toasted), lots of Hellmann's mayonnaise and Funnyuns Onion rings smashed into bits and spread on top of the mayonnaise (I didn't say this was going to be a pretty list now did I?). I can't kiss her for a day after she eats one of these, lucky she only eats them once a year.

4. Her favorite TV shows are "Mistresses" and "Coupling" all from the BBC. She is trying hard to break her addiction to "The Real Housewives" franchise but it has not been working as these mystical creatures keep bringing her back to the telly.

5. She has no rhythm! She is one of the few Latin people without one. This made growing up in an Hispanic family that loves to dance especially hard. Years of ballet, tap, jazz and modern dance classes did not help one bit. She now fakes in on the dance floor by letting the man lead (which brings us back to #2 as she resents the man telling her what to do).

6. She is terribly shy still even today. She is much better than when she was a child as she was "painfully" shy then but even now she is still shy. But she is improving.

7. Her biggest thrill is diving with sharks. Nothing makes her feel more alive than diving with sharks swimming around her. Her dream is to dive with the ever elusive whale shark which she still hasn't found in her over 100 scuba dives yet.

8. She is at her happiest walking on the beach or swimming in the ocean with her friends, family and me around her.

9. She won a contest in a bowling alley in Barcelona for the person who can eat the most jalapeno peppers. She is quite sure till this day that her stomach has suffered permanent damage from that contest. The prize was....a free Corona!!

10. And most important about my mom is that she is a wonderful mom and she would even make a great mom to a human child because she can sense what makes a child happy or sad. She thinks she knows how to create a good human being now with all her life experience and I know she can because I am a dog who can write a blog and has an amazing wardrobe which is quite an achievement in the canine world.

Happy Mother's Day to my Mom and my MiMa! I love you!

Chow for now!