• May. 13, 2007 - A Pleasant Surprise for Mother's Day
| First I will say that I don't look forward to Mother's Day. Usually it is disappointing, the kids act up, my husband is irritable, we hear a sermon that was written by someone trying to identify with mothering, we visit with family and the day goes on. This year was different. THis morning Bill got up first and was down stairs when the girls awoke. Lynds was the first to give me a big kiss good morning and remembered immediately to wish me a happy mother's day. Bill made coffee and pancakes for breakfast AND cleaned up all the dishes. Then off to church without a problem and we heard an incredible sermon from the Messianic Jewish Rabbi that was our guest speaker since we still do not have a pastor. We stopped at the garden center for me to get the rest of my gifts (on Saturday I took the girls on our annual treck to Well Sweep Herb Farm http://www.wellsweep.com/ to pick up my scented geranium that I have traditionally gotten for mother's day, well ever since I became a mom). I got a lavander, and a dill too. I will certainly remember to take cuttings of my scented geraniums in the fall and keep them over the winter. (Note to self, use plastic pots bc the terra cotta dried out too quickly and those cuttings died.) I overwintered my fringed apple geranium last year and it is finally perking up a bit in the garden. Oh yes, my mind does wander...back to today. Today I got some jalepenos, cherry tomatoes, broccoli, oregano, and rooting harmone. The only thing I like as much as planting a garden is propagating my plants. I plan to make lots of little scented geraniums! My parents came for supper and my husband cooked and did all the dishes. He really did a pretty good job considering he does not do any of the cooking. Oh, he did the dishes too and put the kids to bed. I bet you'd think I did all kinds of relaxing, right? Uh...no. I planted everything but the broccoli, and then bagged up in contractor bags more of the scrap wood and other debris next to our nearly dilapidated shed. I have decided to forgo the new computer bc we really need to do something about that shed. |
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