Mother's Day

Well now happy mothers day to all you mothers out there. This is a picture of me and the boys taken by my good friend Corlis. We gave it to Sweetie in a nice frame so’s she can take it to work or do whatever with. Me and the older boy made her waffles for breakfast and tried to let her sleep in as long as we could but it was pretty exciting for the boys and try as we did, she didn’t get to sleep past nine.

The older boy somehow got it in his mind that he wanted to get mom some purple lipstick as a gift and made sure that on Saturday we went out and got her some. Fortunately we met a nice sales lady who managed to talk him into something not too purple and on Sunday, Sweetie seemed to even like it. I thought it looked pretty nice myself though by the end of the morning, Sweetie had marked just about everything with a lip imprint.

It was a beautiful day, with the sun all hot and shiny and hardly a cloud in the sky. Sweetie got to take a nap in the afternoon as me and the boys got our new raised flowerbeds ready to be planted. In the afternoon we visited the Grammas on both side of the family and brought them all flowers and drank weak iced tea.

Our neighbors, Heather and Earl, have put a little pond in their garden with a fountain on one end. Me and the boys found and old rubber duck and when they left to go visiting, we snuck it into the pond. It looks pretty happy there, sitting amongst the lily pads and aquatic grasses. Even in a garden that’s flowers were in full bloom, the bright yellow duck looked right at home. Like the tub he had been built for had always been a zoo and we had now, finally released it to his home in the wild.

The younger boy had a bit of a temperature last night and Sweetie’s taking him in to see the doctor today to get him all checked out. The older one had sported a fever a few days back and I’m thinking that he must have passed it around a little bit. We’ve been pretty healthy lately so you wont find me complaining about it too much.

The boys and I just want to say how happy we are to have Sweetie as a mom. There is no end to her patience or her kindness and it makes the entire running around getting things ready for mother’s day process, a lot of fun. I just hope all of you who read this had as good a day as we did: Out in the flowers and grass on one of the first truly warm days of spring.

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