Mother's Day Spoiler Alert!

This cough is lingering still, nagging the heck out of me, and leaving my voice a mess at the end of the day, but hey, at least it's back. I did get out of the house today though! After nap time I loaded the boys into the car and headed out to do some very last minute Mother's Day Shopping. I must say, that as much as I like to be surprised, I saw lots of things that I could use right now and had a vision of loading it all into the shopping cart, wrapping it all up, giving it to my hubby and saying, "this is from you and the boys, thank you!" But what fun is that?

I got the boys into bed on time tonight and had some alone time. My mind is overloaded with a million and one things that either need to get done, I want to get done, I'd like to do some day... When I have that many things on my plate, nothing gets done. It is now 11pm on Friday night, the boys clothes just made it into the dryer and I decided that our clothes are just going to have to sit in the laundry basket tonight because you couldn't pay me enough to get off this couch!

I'm sure none of the mama's in my life will read this before Mother's Day, so I can disclose the following information here. Christopher and I picked up ceramic flower pots and seeds for his Nanny(my mother in law) and two Aunts. After dinner he painted them, calling them his "master piece" and proclaiming after each stroke, "Look what I've created(or something along those lines)" while he thrust his brush into the air(he picked this scene up from an episode of Clifford the Big Red Dog). Evan helped too. I painted his little fingers, gave him the base of the flower pot, prayed he wouldn't throw it off of his tray, and let him turn it round and round in his little painted hands.

After the boys went to sleep, I painted a flower pot for my mom. Yes, she's been gone for 8 months now, but making something in her memory, just made it seem so final... It hurt a bit. But with spring comes a new beginning, longer days, warmer weather, flowers blooming... Things she will never get to experience again, but I can live them for her, by keeping her memory alive.

Tomorrow we will fill our pots with dirt and plant some seeds in each one. I pray that mom's grows tall and strong and that it lives for a long time!