Happy Mother's Day PWYC

[lucylee]

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms here!

Dmom and I had a great day! She came to church with us, then we ate at the cafeteria across the road from our church, along with ds, ddil, and dgd.
(DGS wanted to come home and eat with dh, who did not make it to church. He is still having a lot of problems with this virus thing. So am I, for that matter, but luckily, I made it through this day pretty well.)

I made the drive to the show house just fine -- it's about an hour away -- but oh my goodness. GPS did NOT recognize the address they gave, and we had a ridiculous time getting to it. You can SEE the house SO PLAINLY from the interstate... and then... when you turn off, it is NOT well-marked that YES, THIS IS the drive to take. (You go in the back of the place, park, and a shuttle bus takes you to the front door.)

But it was definitely something to see, and we enjoyed it. Dmom said, as much as she wanted to see the house, she was really happy to have some time with just me and her -- no little ones arguing or talking over us, you know. And I was not really good company, I'm sure, because I did ask her some things about what I've been talking about in J&C, and I couldn't help but cry, but I think she understands. Well, she doesn't understand ALL of it, because I didn't tell her the part dfriend asked me not to, that has given me doubts and regrets, but she understands why this is still on my mind. (Partly, in her opinion, because I never got to live the REALITY of it, only the DREAM, which she thinks would have quickly shattered had I ever experienced the reality.)

But I think she had a very nice time, and we were home pretty early.
Going out to eat now with ds and dgrands.

One of my cousin's children wrote on her school Mother's Day card, "What I like best about my mom: She is redneck."
(She really isn't, so this is hilarious. The daughter, age 7, probably is pretty much redneck. Beth Dutton on Yellowstone is her role model, apparently. We don't understand this; her mom doesn't even watch the show. She thinks she has seen it at her aunt's house.)

[Nancy]

I went to church.
Brunch was good at dson's. dd came.
I have walked the dog.
good news update in j & c.

[Harriet]

Yes, Happy Mother's Day to everyone who celebrates - I don't think I said that specifically!

Happy for lucylee and Nancy for meals with family.

Remembering what I once knew about rabbits, I think the California is a long-bodied breed, soft, calm.

Here, dd42 and her youngest came by with journals, pens for me. While they were here, ds, ddil, their dog and the two children came by on a walk bringing cut flowers. With this many, ds wanted us all outdoors, which was a smart idea. It was cool today and overcast, but not uncomfortable. The children played hide and seek, so funny. I told them about the gift idea LadyM found. None of us had ever seen it.

Dstepson surprised us by dropping by again. Dstepdil had found a dwarf canna lily for my garden and sent it over. She also sent a serious chocolate bar and a greeting card she'd made herself with colored pencils. So thoughtful. She is puppysitting for her mother.

So, dd23 missed everyone. By the time she made it after work, the excitement was over. She and I just stayed outside and talked a long time about all subjects, after her long weekend shepherding collectors and artists. Gave advice about roommate K - she totaled her car (no one hurt), so has money frustrations and is in a down mood. Hope she comes out of it soon. Dd clipped Tobias' nails, yay. I actually ended up giving her a bunch of kitchen things for her smoothies, from containers to greens.

She'd already brought me a vase from the gallery in April and I told her that was all the present I needed. One of the artists, in a fit of pique, threw one of his lesser works in the trash because it wasn't good enough, and she'd pulled it back out, argued with him. He allowed it to live only because she finally said it would make her mother happy. She told him her mother had just painted part of her house the same salmon color (true, I did) and that her mother's house was so quiet no one would notice it. He waved her off and told her to tell her mother to place it against a same-colored wall to hide it.