A Mama's Day Celebration

"A Mama's Day Celebration" is a mini-story that is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series.

The Story
One morning, some time after Empath and Smurfette had their first child together, Smurfette woke up in her bed and realized that her husband wasn't there. She somehow couldn't sense him being anywhere in the village, which was pretty odd.

She went downstairs to take a look to see if Empath was there, and then heard that her child Psycheliana was awake in her crib. She went into her bedroom and saw her squirming on her back, waiting to be picked up.

"Oh, good morning there, sleepy head," Smurfette said, gently picking up her child. "Papa must have gone somewhere. Do you know where he might be?"

Psycheliana giggled, as if she knew the answer but wasn't going to tell, if she could speak coherently at that point to reveal anything of importance.

"Oh, never mind, Liana...it's a silly question to ask you at your age anyway," Smurfette said, heaving a sigh. "Well, let's get you all dressed up so we can meet our fellow Smurfs at the breakfast table, okay? We've got to smurf our best for the boys."

Smurfette got Psycheliana out of her night clothes and into a pretty pink dress with pink booties on her feet, then she took the child upstairs and carefully placed her on the bed while she went to change into her daily clothes. She came out from behind the divider to show her child the clothes she was wearing. "So how do I look?" Smurfette asked.

Psycheliana squealed with approval as she clapped her hands together.

"I'm glad that you approve, Liana," Smurfette said with a sigh. "I just wish your Papa was here to see me this morning. I can't imagine where he could have smurfed to without waking me up, but I'm sure that it must be very important."

Then they both heard the dining bell being rung in the distance. "That must mean breakfast is ready, my little dear," Smurfette said. "Let's smurf ourselves going so we could join the others."

Smurfette carried Psycheliana in her arms as they both left their house together. Outside she could see that all the Smurfs were already out of their houses, which meant that they must be getting their breakfasts ahead of her. "Well, that's pretty typical of the male Smurfs," Smurfette said, sounding very disappointed. "It figures that we would be the last to smurf the breakfast line just because we're female Smurfs."

Nevertheless, Smurfette proceeded toward the dining area near Greedy's kitchen, where she could see all the Smurfs gathered together, although to her surprise none of them seem to have gotten their breakfasts yet. Tapper stepped out from among the crowd of Smurfs to meet with Smurfette. "Smurf o' the morning to you, my dear Smurfette, and the same to you, my little Liana," he greeted.

"What is all this smurfing on here, Tapper?" Smurfette asked, sounding curious.

"Please, smurf yourself a seat right over here, next to your husband," Tapper said, as he directed Smurfette to a seat near a table where Empath was already sitting next to, with a high chair already set up.

"Good morning, Smurfette," Empath greeted with a smile. "You're just in time."

"Time? Time for what, Empath?" Smurfette asked as she sat down next to him and handed her child over to Empath, who placed her in her high chair.

"HAPPY FIRST MAMA'S DAY, SMURFETTE!" all the Smurfs said in unison.

Smurfette was taken by surprise. "Mama's Day? You mean...this day is Mama's Day, and you're smurfing this all for me?"

"Aye, my fair lassie," Duncan McSmurf said. "You're only the first maiden Smurfette in the village to become a mother in this generation, and so we're smurfing our appreciation of you smurfing the first baby Smurf of the next generation into the world with a special breakfast, prepared by Greedy and his kitchen staff."

"So that's why you had to smurf me from knowing about it, Empath," Smurfette said. "You had me worried at first about you."

"This smurf apologizes for smurfing you like that, Smurfette," Empath said. "This smurf just wants to make it a special day for you so you would feel appreciated for the special role you smurfed yourself in."

"Well, this time I will forgive you for it," Smurfette said as she leaned over to give Empath a kiss on the cheek.

To be expanded on.