Next Sunday is Mother's Day, and my brother and I want to give our mother a surprise (11) she works so hard for our family. Last night, while she was washing the dishes, we had a good (12): we would cook dinner for her ourselves! My brother will make spaghetti, and I will bake the apple pie that she likes best. (13) So yesterday we asked Grandmother, who used to own a small restaurant, to teach us, and she showed us every step slowly. On Sunday morning we will shop at the market, and then we will cook while Mother visits her sister. (14), we will put the food on the table and wish her a happy Mother's Day.
My grandfather was a farmer for most of his life, and he still keeps a cow, two lambs, and fourteen hens on his small farm. Every summer eight of us visit him, and we eat lunch under the apple trees that he planted when he was young. He has three granddaughters, but I am his only (15). My cousin Amy, (16) lives in a big city, had never seen a real cow before. (17), she was so afraid of the animals that she stayed inside the house. But by the end of the week, she was feeding the lambs with a bottle. On the last night, Grandfather looked around the table at all of us and smiled. (18)