Mothers' Day initiative / Iniciativa "Día de las Madres". (ENG/ESP)

There are many memories I have of Mother's Day, when I was a little girl I always came home with the school crafts and hid them to surprise my mom on Sunday. My dad would buy the gift and the three of us, my two sisters and I, would go out to give it to my mom. As we got older the gifts were more commercial and since my hobbies were buying clothes and shoes, I was the one who bought her new ones.

When her daughters became moms and the family grew, we all received gifts and the excited children composed poems and sang tributes to us.

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I remember as a child we went out a lot to eat in restaurants, especially those that were outside the city, eating meat on a stick, rabbit with salmorejo, cachapas, German food, Venezuelan Creole food, generally in natural environments; but if we ate in the same city, Italian food, pastas or pizzas, and occasionally Chinese food was a regular.

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With the country's situation, we started making meals at home or we bought them and shared them with the family. Sitting down to eat together has always been a tradition, music, joy, dances, and stories were always present.

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One of the moments that I remember most nostalgically of this celebration, is being with the whole family together with my sister and my nephews who now live in another country and my dad who left this plane a few years ago.😕

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The family has shrunk in the country and now there are fewer of us left. Last year my mother, my daughter and I had to celebrate it, the three of us at home feeling the nostalgia of the commotion.

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The best gift I could give my mom is to continue celebrating as before, so this year we took up the tradition that my dad always had of having lunch outside the house to "Celebrate Mother's Day".

One of my favorite places is the Gourmet Naturlandia @naturlandia (IG) near our house. Since she has never eaten there, I suggested to my sister @yamilar04 to take her to try the menu and us the hamburgers that were being released today on the menu.

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We arrived at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, we were greeted with a spectacular vibe, we went to the table and there was already prepared the ASTERI Duo who delighted us with a nice repertoire for all the mothers present.

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The food arrived, my mom was very grateful for all the attention and the delight to her palate with all the dishes. The vegetarian hamburgers with the bread made by themselves and accompanied with tamarind juice were a delight, you could feel the love with which they make the food, I asked if the chef made the hamburgers and they told me that everyone was putting them together and I tell you that you can feel the family togetherness.

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But that wasn't all, they had a poetry contest and my nephew won first prize with the poem he wrote to his mom... so beautiful I love it.

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And then we went to the kareoke where my daughter and my mom came out first to do what they love, sing.

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A very emotional day, we ate delicious food, we had fun, we shared and we returned home telling anecdotes of what we had experienced along the way. My mom with her charismatic way of speaking thanked us again and we hugged the five of us in the middle of the sidewalk...

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Retomando la tradición.

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Son muchos los recuerdos que tengo del día de las madres, siempre de pequeña llegaba a casa con las manualidades del colegio y las escondía para darle la sorpresa a mi mama el domingo. Mi papa compraba el regalo y salíamos las tres, mis dos hermanas y yo, a entregárselo a mi mama. A medida que fuimos creciendo los regalos eran más comerciales y como mi hobbies era comprar ropa y zapatos, pues yo era quien le compraba sus estrenos.

Cuando sus hijas fuimos convirtiéndonos en mamas y la familia fue creciendo, todas recibíamos regalos y los niños emocionados componían poesías y nos cantaban homenajeándonos.

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Recuerdo de niña salíamos mucho a comer en restaurantes sobre todo los que estaban fuera de la ciudad, comer carne en vara, conejo al salmorejo, cachapas, comida alemana, comida criolla venezolana, generalmente en ambientes naturales; pero si comíamos en la misma ciudad, una fija era la comida italiana, pastas o pizzas y de vez en cuando comida china.

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Ya con la situación país fuimos haciendo las comidas en casa o la comprábamos y compartíamos en familia. Siempre el sentarnos a comer juntos ha sido una tradición, la música, la alegría, los bailes, los cuentos no faltaban.

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De los momentos que recuerdo con más nostalgia de esta celebración, es el estar toda la familia reunida con mi hermana y mis sobrinos que ahora viven en otro país y con mi papa que partió hace algunos años de este plano.😕

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La familia se ha reducido en el país y ahora somos menos los integrantes que quedamos. El año pasado nos tocó celebrarlo mi mama, mi hija y yo, las tres en casa sintiendo la nostalgia del alboroto.

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El mejor regalo que le pudiera dar a mi mama es seguir celebrando como antes, por eso este año retomamos la tradición que mi papa siempre tenía de almorzar fuera de casa para “Celebrar el día de las Madres”.

Uno de mis lugares favoritos es el Gourmet Naturlandia @naturlandia (IG) que queda cerca de la casa. Como ella nunca ha comido allá, le propuse a mi hermana @yamilar04 llevarla para que probara el menú y nosotros las hamburguesas que se estaban estrenando hoy en la carta.

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Llegamos a las 2 de la tarde, nos recibieron con una vibra espectacular, pasamos hasta la mesa y allí estaba ya preparado el Dúo ASTERI quienes nos deleitaron con un bonito repertorio para todas las madres presentes.

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Llego la comida, mi mama muy agradecida por todas las atenciones y el deleite a su paladar con todos los platos. De las hamburguesas vegetarianas con el pan fabricado por ellos mismos y acompañado con jugo de tamarindo toda una delicia, se sentía el amor con el que hacen la comida, yo pregunte si la chef hacia las hamburguesas y me dijeron que entre todos las iban armando y les digo que se siente la unión familiar.

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Pero eso no fue todo, hicieron un concurso de poesía y mi sobrino se ganó el primer premio con el poema que le hizo a su mama… tan bello lo amo.

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Y luego pasamos al kareoke donde mi hija y mi mama salieron de primeras hacer lo que les gusta, cantar.

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Un día muy emotivo, comimos rico, nos divertimos, compartimos y regresamos a casa contando por el camino las anécdotas de lo vivido. Mi mama con su carismática forma de hablar nos dio las gracias de nuevo y nos dimos un abrazo los cinco en medio de la acera…

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