Mother's Day...Some are better than others

OK, so did I mention that I would not be consistent about this blog thing? Here we go again...



Mother's Day.....some are better than others. Mine this year started with M leaving the house at 6 am to go to Springdale to work on his race car. Yes, I just just said that my loving husband left me with three children on Mother's Day and took the only vehicle that we all would fit into since he needed to use it to pull the trailer. Fortunately, the fosters' future "forever family" wanted them for the afternoon and came to get them around 11:30 after they went to church. I ask C man where he wants to go eat lunch and he picks the usual Mexican restaurant that he loves and that we happened to eat lunch at the day before. That's OK because I'm going with my little dude. Well, the restaurant is crazy busy (it is Mother's Day after all) so I suggest the other Mexican restaurant owned by the same people. He refuses claiming that that one "freaks me out!" Whatever! Where to then? "Pizza Inn" is the response. "Great" (sarcastic tone) I think and head that direction. As we pull into the parking lot C says, "see Mom, Pizza Inn isn't crowded at all" I reply in my most loving explaining mommy voice, "That's because most moms don't want to eat their Mother's Day lunch at Pizza Inn." I get a response of "OOOOOhhh" like a light bulb turns on. After our lovely pizza dinner we head to the movies to see Speed Racer. Once again, not my first choice, but I am with my little dude which is good. On our way out of the movie, the forever family mom calls and says that W has been screaming for 3 hours and she wants to know if I have any suggestions. All I can think of is "Happy Mother's Day!" We go home and I spend the rest of the afternoon and evening painting the window sills so I can hang the blinds and quit living with bed sheets on my windows. M shows up around 10:30 and says he's sorry it wasn't a wonderful Mother's Day (just wait until Father's Day! I'll be making a trip by myself to somewhere unnecessary) and promises to make it up to me later that week. I hold him to that promise Monday night and make him take me to the big city and get a new video camera.



Now, I need the video camera since my other one was slung out of a race car 3 years ago at 150 miles per hour and came home in a box in a million pieces. I need to be able to record my sweet baby boy in his kindergarten year end play on Friday. He is going to be a "big beautiful planet" When I asked him if there were going to be a bunch of "big beautiful planets" he replied in his most I'm smarter than you voice with, "well no Mom, there aren't that many planets in the world." Duh! He has to get those quick remarks from his father......well, maybe not.



Overall, things are good. The fosters are doing really well and seem to be bonding well with the future forever family. Looks like they may be moved there by the end of May or beginning of June. We are going to miss them, but it's GREAT that they are going to be with their God chosen family for good soon. Remember that you save the world one child at a time and that there are thousands waiting to be loved by someone every day.