Working week-end

It's been a difficult week for my brother.
I have helped this week and I must admit that I am not used to physical labor work.

For the last few days we were moving things and emptying store rooms from the next door empty offices and had the wall knocked down making the kitchen of our restaurant bigger. We were closed to customers today and tomorrow in the first floor restaurant but the ground floor eatery stay open. The kitchen was dismantled and removed the cabinets and burners all gone and then the industrial cleaners made it like a clean empty shell.
It's strange to walk in the emptiness and sadly I feel a part of me has been taken away since that was Mother's kitchen once. I still feel her there sometimes, watching and smiling and that loving warmth she had. Hiro has done very well, he has kept many things the same way and perhaps that is why we have many regular customer even from Momma's days. People like familiar things and many compliment the meals that they are beautifully made and the same way that momma used to make them. He has her smile and her eyes and I am proud of him.

Things must progress and the new kitchen will be installed tomorrow after the electrics check and we are back to normal on Tuesday night all being well. They might even see me in a waitress uniform if they lucky ha ha. We are expecting a full evenings bookings on Tuesday and I look forward to getting back to normal here at home.