妈妈教我包饺子英语作文【精选20篇】

导语：妈妈爸爸是世界上最爱我们的人，我们应该好好孝敬他们。下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文我的妈妈，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

My mother is sixty-three years old, and for the last forty year she has been the village doctor. She has a small clinic that she prepares medicine and treats small injuries,and also sells canned powder milk.

Our house has people in and out at all hours of the day and night.

The villagers always like to come to her clinic to see the doctor and to meet their neighbors, too.

Almost all the villagers come to my mother when their baby is due. My mother is very good at predicting the day the baby will come.

Sometimes my mother will not get enough sleep if the babies come late at night or early in the morning.

There are special rooms for the mother and baby, and usually they stay at the doctors house about twenty-four hours.

We always like to see the new babies get their first bath because they look so red and small.

All the village people know and trust my mother because she is such a quiet, kind,and experienced friend of theirs.

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我妈妈六十三岁了，在过去的四十年里她一直是乡村医生。她有一个小诊所，她准备药物和治疗小伤，也卖罐装奶粉。

我们的房子日夜都有人进出。

村民们总是喜欢到她的诊所去看医生，并会见他们的邻居，太。

几乎所有的村民都到我母亲的时候，他们的孩子是由于。我妈妈很擅长预测婴儿会出生的那一天。

有时我的母亲将无法得到足够的睡眠，如果婴儿在深夜或清晨。

有专门的房间，为母亲和婴儿，通常他们留在医生的房子约二十四小时。

我们总是喜欢看到新的婴儿第一次洗澡，因为他们看起来这么红和小。

村里所有的人都知道和信任我的母亲，因为她是一个安静，善良，经验丰富的朋友。

I have a good mother. i think she is the best mother in the world. i like her very much and she loves me very much, too.

my mother is 38.she is a doctor and very frienrdly to peopie.i want to be a good doctor like my mother when i grow up.

my mother is also good atcooking. every day shecooks for us. in the daytime she works very herd. aftervery tired. i often help her with it.

this is my mother. can you tell me something abour your mother?

My mother high stature, not fat or thin, a few silk shallow wrinkles on the

forehead, often hang a smile on his face.

Mother is kind, she taught me at an early age to be honest, treat people to

be generous, since the childhood to cultivate my good character.

Remember there is one thing I always forget. It was a hot afternoon, the

sun like aball of fire to bake the earth. I do in the room, fan fan, but sweat

kept rolling down. I said to mother: "mom! The weather was too hot, hot as hell!

I want to eat Popsicle." Mother said: "go, Ill take you to buy some ice stick."

Then picked up a wallet.

Where to buy, I chose a Popsicle, mother from the purse and took out a

piece of 50 yuan to buy the ticket of uncle, uncle to find the money, my mother

and I went hurried home.

At home, mother put back counted, soliloquize ground to say: "yi? Well,

there are 7 yuan, how do I find 45 yuan?" Once I listen to and happily say:

"good! People buy really confused, looking for more 3 yuan. Mom, the 2 yuan to

me?" Mother stared my one eye, said angrily: "find the 2 yuan more, we should

give the money back, do not want the covet petty gain! Besides, somebody else

sell Popsicle more not easy!" Say that finish, mother take fire up the sun, give

somebody else sent 3 yuan.

I love my mother very much. when I see her doing housework I often come to help her.

One day, my mother was ill and my father was out. so I had to look after my mother and do housework by myself. although I was not good at doing that things, I still tried my best to do everything. After a day of work， I was very tired. but I was very happy. It was not only because I was no longer a child, but I known I could help my mother as well.

From then on, I often help my mother. Now, I can help my mother clean the room, wash the clothes, put away the clothes. cook dinner, wash the dishes.

Today, I feel very happy because we have to make dumplings. Teacher brought a bowl of water and delicious stuffing, as well as round and thin dumpling skin. Teacher taught the first time, we like to do in accordance with the teacher, left hand holding the dumpling skin, right hand with a piece of stuffing chopsticks into the middle of the dumpling skin, dip your finger in water, the water stick around in the dumpling skin, then fold pinch, the pinch all around, a chubby dumpling to do a good job, and I do it in accordance with previous methods, then we put together a good package dumplings. The dumplings on the plate, and some neat row of the team, and some take the shape of the emission imaging. Some dumplings disk bulging like a big round general heads held high, triumphantly. Some dumplings are flat like a thin dry old man, pulling his head, listless.

now to eat dumplings it! Some children have jumped with joy, cried out. Now I know only their own bag to pack out the most delicious dumplings.

星期天的中午，我看到妈妈一个人在厨房里包饺子，就跑过去给妈妈帮忙。

妈妈告诉我首先把饺子皮放到手心里，然后用筷子把肉馅夹到饺子皮的正中心，接下来把饺子皮的边捏紧就完成了。我按照妈妈教我的方法开始包起来。可是包的时候遇到了许多小问题，有时饺子馅太多捏不住；有时饺子馅太少扁扁的；有时饺子皮的边一直捏不紧还要反复捏……最后，我包出来的饺子奇形怪状，有趣极了。有的像摇篮，有的像小船，我心里很开心，真想马上吃到自己包的饺子！

饺子煮好了！我迫不及待地翻了翻碗里的饺子，吃到自己包的饺子心里开心极了！妈妈说我真是她的好帮手，以后我一定要多帮助妈妈，干更多的家务活。

I have a charming humorous mother. Because of this, my disposition is also very open and bright, who was called mother to I that many humorous cells. My mother has 1.68 meters, Xius long stature, because has lived me, the belly is a little big. Sometimes daddy laughs at her, her actually spot is not angry. She said: “looks like a lesser panda to be the same. It is not very good!”. Sometimes my mother from the useless a wee bit cosmetics, also has used me “Johnson the baby Run skin dew”, I asked her, she always said: “you looked that mother the skin is good, because I am the small treasure!”.

My mother like this, what is more laughable is 3 years ago ....... That day, I am riding the baby carriage and mother go to the garden to take a walk. Suddenly, mother remembers some people to be called her to chat. Therefore, mother delivered immediately me goes home, to mount the car to go. As soon as that movement swings a pendulum, nimble freely. Listens to mother saying that that day on the avenue people face her to look, looked while smiles. Made that mother is very embarrassed. Once, in familys window blind clasp has fallen several, could not pull open. Daddy likes himself making, within result one day has not fixed, therefore is angry very much. Mother wants to tease daddy to smile, therefore hides after the window blind “squeek”, pulls open the window blind, smiles is going forward one step, recommends a wooden staff to treat as “the microphone” conveniently, sang, after singing in good voice and with feeling sings, she wields begins saying:“goodbye, my faithful singer fans!”I and daddy “bu puff” have smiled, more smiled is happier, smiles “ha ......Ha ha!”. How to do, daddy also smiled? Originally a mothers song, pulled open unexpectedly the window blind. Therefore, daddy smiles is starting to install the window blind hook. Hey! Mother you are really good. You are we “the pistachio nut”, forever happy “pistachio nut” a forever happy

I have a beautiful mom, my moms eyes sparkling, still big. Eyebrows are Liuye eyebrows, mouth is very long, very high nose, face is always flushed.

Once, I just came home and saw my mother being wiping the glass. She first opened the faucet, and then took a towel to dip some water. Then, when she touched, put the faucet off. Began to wipe the glass, and her waist like a pencil just standing where the hand holding a towel waving. Eyes staring at the glass, and suddenly she found a piece of black on the glass. She thought: who is doing it? Do not talk about health, then, my mother would like to come up with a good way.

She took a deep breath to the heart. Then, blown out, my mother took the towel and began to rub. Finally, the piece of black wiped out, tired of the arm are pain. See me, my heart hurts to my mother, said: "Mom I give you rub." Mother said: "Well, no, I do it yourself! You grow up and then help my mother to do a good job." So my mother Endured the pain and wiped the glass.

Mom is a hardworking person, there is such a good mother I feel very happy. How can your mother tell me?

My mother is always strict with me, especially after I entered the senior middle school.

After I became a senior student, mum oftenpressed me to study. After school, as soon as I got home, mum hurried me up to do my homework. Even on weekends, mum wouldn‘t give me free time. She asked me to take many tutorial classes. I had little time to play. Why couldn‘t I play? Although I felt very unhappy, I was obedient to mum.

After a period of hard work, I made great progress in my study. In the mid-term examination, I got the first place in my class. when being told the news, Mum said she was proud of me. Now I am full of confidence in my future. I have understood my mum. She has done all the things for the sake of me. I will work even harder as repayment.

[妈妈我误会你了英语作文

在小学五年的生活里，妈妈教了我许许多多，比如：整理房间、洗衣服、扫地……在这些事中，我记忆最深的就是那次妈妈教我包饺子。

记得那天，妈妈走来说：“今天晚上我们吃饺子。”我一听，想起每次妈妈包饺子都包的很好吃。于是我说：“我想学包饺子。”妈妈说：“好。”

我坐在椅子上，这时妈妈拿来了面，说：“包饺子首先擀面皮。”我一听擀面皮太容易了。妈妈给我示范了一次，我按照妈妈的方法做了起来。这时我才发现擀面皮不容易。我拿起了面擀来擀去，总是擀得太慢了，像蜗牛在走路。妈妈说：“不要紧，慢慢地来。”我按照妈妈说的慢慢来，不一会儿，一块面被我擀好了，只不过是正方形的，妈妈擀的是圆形的。妈妈又说：“不要灰心，只要再多练习几次，你就会擀圆了。”我听了妈妈的话更有信心了。

面皮擀完了，妈妈又教我包饺子。我一看那么简单，就信心十足地包了起来，可是状况并不像我想象的那样。我首先拿起面皮，把肉放在面上，又捏好，可是面皮一会儿这儿破，一会儿那儿破，露馅了，把我搞得焦头烂额。我又开始灰心了，妈妈亲切地说：“是你放的肉太多了，而且捏的力太大了。”我又拿起了一块面皮，适当地放上了一点肉，而且轻轻地捏着，就这样一个饺子包好了。不一会儿，饺子煮好了，我一尝香极了！

从妈妈教我包饺子这件事，我明白了：做什么事，都是看起来简单，做起来难。

My favorite person is my mom, she fuck broken heart for my growth. She up very early every morning to cook for me, also send me to school, very hard, I must repay my mother.

Remember once, my mother and I to the set to buy vegetables, and we bought lots of food, my mother bought my special love to eat the food. As to go back home, my mother suddenly say good pain, the original mother accidentally put foot sprain, I hurried to hold the mother go. We walked for a long time, the weather suddenly turned into a cloudy day, it looks like its going to rain, but we are far away from home, so I helped mother to under the roof, I hurried home to fetch the umbrellas, under the rain when I come back up. I open the umbrella for her mother, holding the mother walked slowly home.

Due to the mothers foot sprain, mother every day to me, every night to give mother wash feet. I want to be a filial mothers boy.

我最爱的人就是我的妈，她为了我的成长操碎了心。她每天早晨很早就起来给我做饭，还要送我去上学，非常辛苦，我一定要报答我的妈妈。

记得有一次，我和妈妈到集上去买菜，我们买了许许多多的菜，妈妈买的都是我特别爱吃的菜。正当要回家的时候，妈妈突然说好疼，原来妈妈一不小心把脚扭伤了，我急忙扶着妈妈走。我们走了一段时间，突然天气变成了阴天，看样子要下雨，可是我们离家还很远，于是，我把妈妈扶到了屋檐底下，我急忙跑回家去拿雨伞，等我回来的时候雨就下了起来。我给妈妈撑开雨伞，扶着妈妈慢慢地走回了家。

由于妈妈的脚扭伤了，我每天给妈妈做好吃的，还每天晚上给妈妈洗脚。我要做一个孝顺妈妈的好孩子。

＂唉，又是一个阳光明媚的星期天！＂正在放长假的我，一边伸懒腰一边自言自语地说．＂作业被我ＰＫ完了，我也复习了，接下来该做什么呢？＂哎！对了，就去向厨艺精深的母亲大人学厨吧！＂在我三番五次地恳求后，老妈无奈之下，终于肯教我一门手艺了，那就是－－包饺子．

首先，我把从市场上刚买回来的新鲜猪肉洗干净，然后，放进榨肉机里把猪肉榨碎，再把小白兔的最爱－－胡萝卜切成细丝．嘻嘻！由于我太得意忘形，把我自己的手切破了，然后，我就向妈妈＂罢工＂，妈妈严肃地对我说：＂你怎么能因为一点小挫折就放弃呢？＂我哑口无言，老妈看见我把手给切破了，就只好把我的后期工作给完成了．

终于，到了包饺子的关键时刻了：妈妈先拿起饺子皮，然后往饺子皮里放馅，再把饺子合上，然后再把饺子弄好．我按妈妈的方法，像模像样地做了起来，可我却弄出了个＂四不像＂，这里又破那里又破，简直弄得一塌糊涂，妈妈看见我包饺子包出个＂四不像＂，便对我说：＂你这样包饺子的方法是错误的．应该先拿起一块饺子皮，然后往饺子皮里放馅，再在饺子皮的边缘沾一点水，再把它包好，这样就大功告成了！＂真是一言惊醒梦中人，经过妈妈的一番指导，我包出来的饺子也有点像是饺子了．在我勤劳的劳动后，一盘饺子终于包好了．

然后，我就把饺子放进锅里去蒸了，一分钟，十分钟，二十分钟过去了，我的心有点迫不及待了，过了一个小时，饺子才出锅．

在品尝饺子时，我悟出了一个道理：一分耕耘，一分收获．

我有一个性格温柔的妈妈。她有一双水汪汪的眼睛，不太高的鼻子，一张小小的嘴巴，一双浓浓的眉毛，瀑布般的黑发。

I have a gentle mother. She has a pair of watery eyes, a nose that is not too high, a small mouth, a pair of thick eyebrows, and waterfall like black hair.

有一次，妈妈得了一种叫胆结石的病。腰常常会痛，就到医院检查，检查之后，医生说肚子里的一样东西正有渐渐地扩大，不知道是什么东西，所以需要住院观察。医生把妈妈安排在特殊的病房里，护士轮流看护着，妈妈特别感动。到吃中午饭的时间了，医院饭还没煮好，我怕妈妈饿着，就对妈妈说：“我去给你买一盒盒饭吧。”说完，我急急忙忙地跑了出去，这时，正好下着狂风暴雨，我在大雨中狂奔，生怕盒饭卖完了。于是，我更加卖力了，越跑越快，终于跑到了卖盒饭的地方，只剩下最后一盒，要是晚一分钟就被别人买走了。回到医院，我将盒饭递给妈妈，妈妈直夸我是个好孩子，接着就狼吞虎咽起来。

Once, mother got a disease called gallstone. The waist often hurts and goes to the hospital for examination. After checking, the doctor says that something in the belly is gradually expanding and doesnt know what it is, so it needs to be hospitalized for observation. The doctor arranged the mother in the special ward, the nurse took turns to look after, mother was particularly touched. It was time for lunch, and the hospital wasnt cooked yet. I was afraid my mother was hungry and said to my mother, "Ill buy you a box lunch."." With that, I hurried out, when it was raining hard, and I was running in the heavy rain, for fear that the lunch box had been sold out. So, I worked harder, and ran faster and faster, and finally ran to the place where the box was sold. Only the last box was left. If one minute later, someone else would buy it. Back at the hospital, I handed the lunch box to my mother, who praised me as a good child and then gobbled it up.

我给予妈妈的爱，不用妈妈回报。爱是有力量的，也是人世界最伟大、最无私的。我想大声地呼喊：“妈妈，我爱您!”

I give my mother love without mothers return. Love is powerful, and it is the greatest and most selfless person in the world. I want to shout loudly: "mother, I love you."!"

My mother takes care of me all the time, she is around me when I need help. Unlike my father, who is so severe and busy, my mother is very kind, when I make mistakes, she will not angry, she tells me to take care of these mistakes and should not make them next time. I am so thankful to my mother, she sacrifices so many things for me.

我的妈妈一直在照顾着我，在我需要帮助的时候，她总是在我身边。不像我的爸爸那样的严厉和繁忙，妈妈是很仁慈的，当我犯错误了，她不会生气，她告诉我要注意这些错误，下次不要再犯了。我很感谢我的妈妈，她为我牺牲了那么多。

Mothers love, like a long river, she quiet, occasionally with a slightly ripples; Her clear, can see the activity on pebbles in the river; She gently, such as the spring breeze slowly to send me. Mothers love for me, I also countless. However, in my impression deepest is the following a few things:

It was a summer night, suddenly the power went out, cant blow fanner. Hot cant sleep, my mother took their fan back and give me a breeze, let me fall asleep. Not only has a comfortable and cool, cool wind also mixed with mom to my thick love, bring me into the sweet dreams.

Another time, I in his home village and play with my cousin. I and my cousin play together I run, but with a small stones I tripped and fell. After I get up, I found more lap a wound, the wound is big and red, and blood flow out, it hurt so much I tears dc. Mother took me to the next to the small clinic simple after disinfection, ready to take me back home, but she was afraid to touch my wound, it just took me home.

Every night when I was learning, every once in a while, mother will always ask me: "daughter, thirst not thirsty, drink some water." And then holding a large glass of water. Water is always warm, let the house is full of warm meaning. Her mother know that I am afraid of hot, so the water right every time. She drink a first, say: "hot", just pass me water to drink.

The father loves the mountain, a mothers love is like the sea. Drop a mothers love can make a mothers love of the great river. Mom, I love you!

现在的我非常喜欢吃饺子，本来我不怎么喜欢吃饺子，可是由于妈妈做的饺子实在太好吃了，便天天吵着要吃，可是由于天天做太麻烦，妈妈便对我说：“你要想吃饺子必须先要学会包饺子，我满口答应了。于是今天早上，妈妈从菜市场买来了香菜，肉和面粉，说要教我包饺子。我一听，高兴得一蹦三尺高。要知道，这可是我第一次包饺子。

妈妈买回包饺子的佐料后，便叫我跟她来到了厨房，教我包饺子。首先，妈妈拿出面粉加点水揉成团后，便来教我擀饺子皮。妈妈先拿出做好的面粉团，捏出其中的一点，又从橱柜里拿出擀面杖，在面团上擀了一下，不一会儿，一个饺子皮便擀好了，我学着妈妈的样子也擀出了一个饺子皮来，就这样我学会了擀饺子皮。大约20多分钟后，饺子皮便全部擀好了。随后妈妈又拿出买好的肉和香菜在切菜板上剁碎。我在一旁看着妈妈剁的好像很轻松，便也想试试，拿出菜刀剁了起来，还没有剁一会儿，我的手就麻了，于是妈妈又剁了起来，又过了一会儿，饺子陷剁好了，现在只差最后一步，也是最困难的一步——包饺子。

首先，妈妈叫我学着她的样子看一遍再来包饺子。妈妈先拿出一片饺子皮平铺在手掌中心，接着又用勺子在碗里舀一些饺子馅放在饺子皮中间，再把饺子皮对折，折成半圆形，再用手交叉着往中间一挤，一捏。不一会儿，一个小巧玲珑的饺子包好了。我学着妈妈的样子包了起来，我刚包好，饺子皮裂开了，于是我就就去问妈妈这是为什么，妈妈说：“应该在对折后，把饺子皮向两边一拉，再往前一挤，使劲一捏就行了。”于是我又重新拿出一块饺子皮试了一次，这次出现了一个新的问题，陷多了，饺子皮又涨开来了，于是我挤出一点儿陷，小心翼翼的按照妈妈说的，又包了一次，这次成功了。虽然包出来的饺子没有妈妈的好看，但我仍然很高兴，因为这毕竟是我用辛勤的汗水换来的。经过多次包饺子，渐渐的我包的饺子也变得好看了起来了。

饺子煮熟了，我专挑那些不怎么好看的饺子吃，吃得津津有味。这次包饺子的经历让我懂得了，其实包饺子也有很大的学问，但只要坚持去做、去想，都会找到窍门，并且做得好。

今天是周末，我们全家聚在一起包饺子。爸爸先到市场上买回饺子皮和新鲜的猪肉，然后把肉剁碎。接下来就是包饺子了。妈妈吩咐我们先把手洗干净，然后又把手擦干。妈妈开始一步步地教我了，只见妈妈把一块饺子皮铺在自己的左掌心上，然后用勺子舀一些肉放在饺子皮的中间。我一步步地跟着妈妈做。接着，妈妈又用手蘸了一些清水，涂在饺子皮的周围，妈妈示范着，她先把皮的两边合起来，把肉包住，再用两手的食指和拇指使劲把两边的皮粘合在一起，并打成漂亮的褶皱，这样，漂亮可爱的饺子就做成了。虽然我包的饺子还没有妈妈包的漂亮，但是我很有信心超过妈妈。

哈哈，下一步当然就是煮饺子啦。煮，也是有讲究的，必须先把水烧开，然后再放入饺子，这样，煮出来的饺子才不会老，皮也不会破。饺子煮好了，妈妈把饺子一个一个地捞出来放在碗里，我们一家人津津有味地品尝着，我终于学会了包饺子。

I have a funny mother. Because of this, my character is also very cheerful, who ask the mother to give me so many humor cell. My mother has 1.68 meters, the shows figure, because she gave birth to me, the belly is a little big. Her father sometimes laughed at her, but she was not angry at all. She said: like a baby panda. Not very well! . My mother never used a little bit of makeup, and sometimes she used my Johnson & Johnson baby lotion, and I asked her, she always said, how good your mothers skin, because Im a baby!

My mom was like that, even more ridiculous three years ago. That day, I rode a kids car to walk with my mother in the street garden. Suddenly, her mother remembered someone telling her to talk. So my mother sent me home and pedaling away. The movement was flexible and flexible. Listen to mother, the people on that day in the street looked at her, smiling while watching. She was so embarrassed.

Once, the curtain hook in the home dropped a few, pull not open. Dad loved to do it for himself, and the result was not fixed in a day, so he was angry. Mother wanted to make my dad laugh, so cheep after hiding in the curtains, with a sound pull open curtain, stepped forward with a smile, with hand held up a wooden as a microphone, sang songs, affectionately sing, she waved and said: goodbye, my loyal fans! My father and I gave a big smile, and the more we laugh, the happier we are. . Whats the matter, daddy laughed too? It was the mothers song that drew the curtain aside. So, daddy smiled and began to put the curtain hook again.

I love my mother very much. Like many other Chinese women, my mother is diligent. She works in a primary school. In order to teach well, she prepares her lectures very carefully and often works so late at night.

My mother is very kind and sincere. She gets along with her neighbors and colleagues. When they have difficulties, she is always ready to lend them a helpful hand. Therefore she is loved and respected in our neighborhood. From Joozone.com.

Mother often tells me to be honest and upright. She expects me to be useful to the people in the future. Up to now, I still remember her saying: Do as much as you can and you will succeed.

我非常爱我的母亲。我的母亲跟其他中国妇女一样，很勤劳。她在一所小学工作。为了教好书，她备课很仔细，常常工作到深夜。

我的母亲待人非常和蔼而且真诚。邻居和同事都与她相处得很好。当他们有困难的时候，母亲总是乐意帮助他们。因此在我们社区里，她深受大家的尊敬和爱戴。

母亲经常教导我要诚实正直。她希望我将来做一个对人民有用的人。直到现在，我仍然记得她说的话：尽你最大的可能去做事，你就会成功。

My mother has no idea that her ninetieth birthday is coming up. She has no notion of the time of day, the day of the week. the season of the year, the year of the century. No notion of the approaching millennium. And no idea any longer, who I am. Her forgetting of me happened just a few months ago, after I had been traveling for more than a month and hadnt been to see her. When I came back, she asked me if I were her niece, l said no, I was her daughter. "Does that mean I had you?" she asked. 1 said yes. "Where was I when l had you?" she asked me. I told her she was in a hospital in Far Rockaway. New York. "So much has happened to me in my life." she said "You cant expect me to remember everything."

My mother was once a beautiful woman, but all her teeth are gone now. Toothless. No woman can be considered beautiful. Whenever I visit her in the nursing home, she is sitting at the table in the common dining room, her head in her hands, rocking. Medication has eased her anxiety, but nothing moves her from her stupor except occasional moments of fear, too deep for medication. This is a room that has no windows, that lets in no light, in which an overlarge TV is constantly blaring, sending images that no one looks at where the floors are beige tiles, the walls cream colored at the bottom, papered halfway up with a pattern of nearly invisible grayish leaves. Many of the residents sit staring, slack-jawed, open mouthed. I find it impossible to imagine what they might be looking at.

When I walk into the dining room on the day of my mothers birthday, I see that she has already been served lunch. The staff has forgotten to hold it back. Though I told them a week ago that I would be providing lunch. She hasn’t touched anything on her tray except a piece of carrot cake, which she holds in her hands. The icing is smeared on her hands and face. I dont want my friends to see her smeared with icing, so I wet a paper towel and wipe her. This fills me with a terrible tenderness, recalling, as it does. a gesture I have performed for my children. As I wipe my mothers face, I see that her skin is still beautiful I hold her chin in my hand and kiss her forehead. I tell her its her birthday, that shes ninety years old. "How did that happen?" she asks. "I cant understand how that could happen."

l have brought her a bouquet of crimson, yellow, and salmon-pink snapdragons. She likes the flowers very much. She likes the name. "Snapdragons. It seems like an animal thats going to bite inc. But its not an animal, its a plant. Thats a funny thing,"

I have bought food that I hope will please my mother, and that will be easy for her to eat: orzo salad with little pieces of crayfish cut into it, potato salad, small chunks of marinated tomatoes. I have bought paper plates with a rust-colored background, upon which are painted yellow and gold flowers and blue leaves.

My friends Nola and Gary come for my mothers birthday. When we are about to leave, I tell my mother that Im going on vacation, mat I wont see her for three weeks, that 1 am going to the sea. "How will I stand that, how will I stand thats she says, but I know that a minute after I’m gone shell forget I was there.

有一次，妈妈买了许多的材料，有搅碎了的肉，现成的饺子皮，调味用的葱、青菜，准备自己包饺子。我很想包饺子，恳求妈妈说：“妈妈，我也想包饺子，行吗？”妈妈点头同意了。

开始包饺子了，妈妈先把碎肉和切成碎末的葱、青菜放入一个大碗里，又往碗里倒入一点麻油。一阵香味扑鼻而来。妈妈拿起筷子使劲搅拌起来。我在一旁准备，恨不得马上就能帮妈妈的忙。终于准备好了，妈妈拿起一张饺子皮，放在掌心里，用筷子蘸了一点馅儿，往饺子皮上轻轻一抹，也不知怎么捏了几下，一个饺子就包好了。

我看这么容易，马上就开始独立“工作”了。妈妈包的饺子有模有样，可我的饺子真调皮，似乎在和我玩游戏一样。不是像铁扇公主的芭蕉扇又大又扁，就是像又长又尖的金枪鱼。在妈妈的指点下，我虚心学习，慢慢地，我终于有了进步，饺子的样子更好了，妈妈直夸我“不错，不错！”包完饺子，妈妈去煮，我巴不得马上就能吃到自己包的饺子。饺子煮好了，我狼吞虎咽吃，吃得好香呀！