Happy Mother's Day !!

Today ranked up there as one of my better Mother's Days. ( Much better than the one 4 years ago when I was pregnant with E. The one where I drove myself to the hospital so Howie could stay home with the kids. Where I was subjected to a litany of procedures and ended my stay by puking all over myself, my hospital bed, the floor, etc. That day was probably #1 on my lifetime list of most embarassing moments EVER, but I digress. ) Today we went to breakfast bright and early, came home and did nothing but read the paper, then took off to the in-laws and then my parents.

E made a suncatcher wrapped in a bag that had her hand-prints on it. H made me a card with a poem. M, well, M has had pneumonia of all things for the past 4 days. So he missed school last week when they were making Mother's Day presents. Instead he found a necklace in my room that I had never taken out of the box. He found it, and pawned it off as his own present to me. HE was fully convinced that he got it for me, even though he swiped it off my own dresser. So what is a good mom to do? OOH and AHH like I'd never seen it before and exlaim what a nice present it was, right? This was mine to begin with, so obviously I liked it. This was not like the time H spent 50 cents on me at the Santa Workshop at school and bought a gold plated eagle pendant with teal trim the size of a half dollar. Did I wear the Eagle? You bet. But I took it off as soon as we were out of his sight.

This necklace was cute. So I attempted to put it on. It barely fit around my neck. HMMM... must be a bracelet....HMMM...falling off my wrist..must be an anklet... ( I am so not an anklet person )... falling off my ankle....put back on my neck at the very last link...taken off as soon as M is out of the room. Back into the box until I can re-gift it to someone with really big ankles or a really tiny neck. JK.

I attempted to link video to the blog today. No such luck. I am brain washing E right now with "My First Little House Books" and "The Sound of Music" . (Wendy, if your reading this I know your laughing!) Anyhow, she knows " Do Re Mi " and I got it on disc.

I got H on the guitar, too. H can play realtively well enough to be able to recognize a couple of songs, enough to impress me after about 8 lessons with a not very good instructor. After about two lessons, we showed up on a Saturday morning for a lesson after a snow storm. Nobody home at the Music Store. We chalked that up to the snow, as lots of things were closed that day. A few more lessons, and at the next one the shop is closed again when we show up. No explanation. I had pre-paid for 3 more lessons, so figured I would follow through with those and then find someone else. 2 lessons go by, and then this Saturday, Howie took him once again, only to find out the guy is out of town. Left without a phone call. So needless to say I have found a new guitar instructor at a different shop. If you want the scoop on shady guitar instructor in town, let me know.

In the meantime I'll keep working on trying to post those videos.