Mommy's Day

Praise the Lord...we all slept in!  Robin woke me up a time or two and said, "Let's just sleep a little bit more."  Uh...yeah.  Good idea.

Before breakfast, I was out on the patio when I saw a strange young German Shepherd in the neighbor's yard, then heard someone calling and whistling for a dog.  Hmmm...  Meg had clothes on, so I advised her.  In short order, she had lured the dog out of the neighbor's yard.  We grabbed it and she put a leash on it, then walked up and down the neighborhood looking for the owner.  It took a few minutes, but the owners were found about two blocks down.  The dog jumped the fence and escaped.  Time to get a new fence!

We had a nice breakfast.  Robin presented me with a pot of tea roses, saying, "Your daughter wants to give you these for Mother's Day."...or something to that effect.  The children gave their Grandma Judy and their mommy an orchid corsage.  Grandma Judy wore hers to church today...  Meg will wear hers to work tomorrow.  Aside from the roses, I got nice cards (that made me cry) from Meg and the grandchildren.  Then we launched into chores.  At one point, we decided to go to Wal-Mart to buy a birdbath/fountain that I had seen there, but there didn't seem to be any left...so we drove to the Avon Wally. Worse!  No sign of ANY fountains there...  It was disappointing.  Maybe God is trying to tell me something...

To assuage our depression over the fountain, we drove to Ritter's where Meg treated us to ice cream.  (We should have had lunch...but that WAS our lunch.)  Upon returning home, it was as if everyone needed their own space.  The kids, individually, did their thing...as did Meg and I.  (Well...not so much.  Meg took a nap.  I did laundry.  I wanted a nap, too!  Had the kids been obnoxious during this time, I would have been ticked about Meg's nap.  As it was, I only had to contend with Robin coming in from the patio to lie about her brother, trying to get him in trouble.  Aargghh!)

I never was grandkid-free for any of their waking moments all weekend.  Meg seems irritated if I act too much like a mother than a grandmother, but we are all here together, so it is to be expected for me to be the bad guy, sometimes, if she is otherwise diestracted.  (I envy Grandma Judy!  She doesn't catch the flack!)

Meg fixed a nice supper, then mowed the lawn.  I continued with the laundry, realizing that there is way too much to do between now and the Dayton Hamvention next weekend...   And then the children launched into the usual late-afternoon insanity.  Ryan is now asleep, as is Megan.  Robin...well...she was awake just a few minutes ago.  Ugh!

Time to finish up what I can and go to bed.  This will be a busy week!