Tonight I drove out to Lake Ronkonkoma to have dinner with my Mother and Brother. Julie pointed out the other day that whenever my siblings and I refer to our Mother we call her Mommy. Julie finds this funny to no end. I think it makes us sound like a pack of halfwits, but then the proof is in the pudding isn't it. When we refer to her directly we call her Ma (with bad Long Island accent of course). Never Mother or Mom, just Mommy and Ma. I think I'm gonna try Mummy on for size, she how that goes for a while.