My Mommy's Day Weekend

I'm a little slow to make a blog post this week!  Here 'tis.

A scant two days after I returned home from my daughter's, they all (including the grandkids) came down to visit me.  I love that!  Unfortunately, a regular weekend is hardly long enough, considering that it takes them longer to get here due to two children and one caffeine drinker in their vehicle, but we cram a lot of stuff into a short amount of time.

Basically, the mission of the weekend was to have a Mother's Day brunch at my house with us and the grandchildren's paternal grandparents in attendance, and to let the grandchildren play with their neighbor buddies as much as possible, plus use my son-in-law to help do some things that I can't do around the house.  We got 'er done!  Megan spent the biggest chunk of Saturday and some of Sunday morning preparing a (costly) gourmet brunch for us all, and Denis wore himself out on Saturday doing some things on my honey-do list (and some things that weren't even on there).  I was pretty useless on Saturday and crashed early.  I think Megan and Denis were up until 2:00 AM!

By 11:00 AM on Sunday, the table was set in a pretty, springy way.  The Heffelman grandparents--my friends--arrived.  They had not seen the grandchildren since New Year's Eve.  (They were supposed to attend our grandson's First Communion in Illinois, but Grandma Judy was slated for major, necessary surgery the day before, so they couldn't make it.)  As it was, Judy was sort of our Guest of Honor on Mother's Day.  Coming here was her first outing post-surgery.  She looked good, felt good, and ate well, so we were all happy!

Our menu, totally planned and executed by Megan:
*cottage cheese souffle' (with bacon)
*spinach and strawberry salad (with a poppy seed dressing)
*little sausage, cheese, and egg quiches (made with refrigerator biscuits in muffin cups)
*fresh fruit salad
*baked blueberry french toast (an overnight dish, made with cinnamon bread, cream cheese, and homemade bluberry syrup
*little Oreo Cakesters covered with fondant frosting and decorated (really elegant!)
*birthday cake with white frosting that looked like roses (for Denis)
*beverage--mimosas, with champagne, OJ, and other fruit juices
You couldn't have purchased a more sophisticated luncheon at the Ritz!  It was all delicious, but probably way too much food!

Sometime before our guests came in the morning, I went back to my bedroom to get dressed and found an absolutely gorgeous homemade quilt on my bed!  Megan made it practically under my nose when I was up visiting.  It was designed to match the walls of my bedroom.  (The walls of the bedroom are painted an odd "whale blue" color that is neither blue nor gray, but somewhere in between and hard to match.  The quilt goes perfectly!)  I love it!

Aside from supporting Megan in her culinary processes on Saturday, Denis worked himself to death around the house.  He cleaned out my gutters, removed some broken light bulbs and changed others, removed an over-the-toilet storage unit so we could get to the half-bath potty that had been causing some problems, trimmed stray tree "volunteers" from around the house and fence, put together and installed some shelving in the mini-barn and organized it a bit.  The piece de resistance, for me at least, was that he hauled off junk from the patio that had been there for years and irked me every spring/summer.  And THEN, after I went to bed, he washed the kitchen floor with a floor machine that they donated to me a year ago AND vacuumed the living room rug and cleaned out the clogged vacuum hose.  Oh...and he hauled my new microwave in from my trunk and helped move the buffet to get it plugged in.

I'm not sure that either Megan or Denis can possibly know how much of a boost they gave me with the help.  Tomorrow is Denis's birthday.  (We celebrated on Sunday.)  I normally just give him money to use as he sees fit, but this time, I put in a bit more because of all he did, and knowing that they are starting a long weekend excursion into Michigan today and could probably use it.   

Just got word from Meg that they had to stop at a doctor's on their way out of town because she felt a UTI coming on.  Shades of last summer in Moab, UT, when she quickly got so sick with one that it risked the rest of the trip.  Hope the meds work, Meg...and hope you and Denis have a fun time exploring Mackinac Island and surrounds!

I am so blessed!