Togetherness anniversay

Cheers! Here's to us!
Okaasan and me celebrated...OMG...9 ? years since we moved in to live together? 
Facebook tells me that 2009 March we moved with Okaasan into this big old house in the suburbs of Sapporo and started life together. Before that for a few months she was living in a neighboring apartment after moving up from her home near Tokyo.
And I was frantically trying to cook multi-plated traditional foods in a tiny kitchen.

So.
Sunday afternoon DS was away on spring ski work and I took Okaasan out in a wheelchair from the care home. Enough snow has melted that we could actually trundle a few blocks in sunshine and then go to a convenience store for coffee and rice dumplings filled with red bean jam. 

She was happy and mentally healthy. Chatty and friendly. Near us in the cafe were two bar workers and a gentleman friend...the care home is just near the night district of the city...and so a Spanish and a Mexican lady with a lifetime of experiences written all over their faces chatted to us and told Okaasan how lucky she was to have a great daughter-in-law.

Bar mamas tell it like it is. :-)