Mom-umental Journeys
A watercraft paddled by Cal and Mom in Italy.
What is a gondola?
Mom's favorite sweet indulgence.
What is dark chocolate sea salt caramel?
The Wellesley Class of '86 officer position Mom recently held.
What is treasurer?
Despite both being born in March, Mom and Cal have different star signs. Cal's is a Pisces, but Mom is this.
What is Aries?
In high school, Mom was the captain of this team.
What is the cheer team?
This is mom's favorite scent and flower. She would often bring this in candle form when she'd take Rae and Emma to horse shows.
What is Peony?
Whenever Mom travels abroad, she enjoys visiting this type of landmark.
What is a church or cathedral?
A common pre-bevy bevy for Mom.
What is a Manhattan?
Mom can make her lips flare out in opposite diagonal directions, but only on one diagonal. These are the directions that her upper and lower lips flare towards.
What is upper lip to the right and lower lip to the left?
The California city Mom flew to in 2015 when Cal needed lung surgery.
What is LA?
The schools Mom attended during undergrad.
What are Wellesley and Trinity?
The animated character Mom initially thought of when she saw Tilly.
Who is Scratté?
The country in which Mom and Liam spent 3 weeks traveling together.
What is Chile?
The meal Mom frequently made for Sam while she recovered from jaw surgery.
What is meatloaf?
The amount of time Mom has been a board member at the ELIH foundation.
What is 6 years?
The year Mom flew to Nashville when Cal needed another lung surgery.
When was 2015?
Mom's major while a student at Wellesley.
What is Political Science?
Colleen's name for Mom, Rae and Emma (as a group).
What are the Gurdles?
The city Sam and Mom visited where Sam had her first legal drink of alcohol.
What is Berlin, Germany?
A staple Oakley household veggie that Mom "does not care for"
What are peas?
The holiday on which the article, "Eileen Brennan to Marry Daniel C. Oakley in July" was published in the New York Times.
What is Christmas?
Mom and Rae completed this training back in August of '22.
What is Narcan Training?
Mom's most repeated question to Sam during calls in high school and college.
What is "How's your love life?"
What Mom calls any videogame.
What is a Gameboy?
The establishment where Mom worked after her honeymoon.
What is Bonnies by the Bay?
The school Mom attended to perfect her culinary skills.
What is Johnson and Wales?
While both pregnant in the summer of '97, Mom and Patty were champions of this tournament.
What is the North Fork Member Guest?
Mom often had to prepare these arthropods, despite their being food for Cal's pet.
What are crickets?
The consecutive number of years that Eileen had a child in school.
What is 26?
The year Mom (and Dad) moved back to Boston's South End.
What is 2014?