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I hope all the mothers out there have had a great day.  At the same time, I do hope those of you that find this day painful found a way to be blessed.  It is definitely a day that is charged with emotion for many of us… both positive and negative.

It was a very nice day here in our home.  The kids were all able to come for a barbecue after church and then we just spent the day hanging out.  It is always so much fun for me to hear the kids having a good time together.

The little imp was just himself.  He talks to you if he feels like it and doesn’t talk if he doesn’t feel like it.  I don’t know how many hours into the day we got before I got a word from him.  Actually, that is typical.  He is usually bugged on the Sundays Dad does worship because he leaves before any of us get up.  Then he just has no words and he makes a point of sitting just enough by himself to make it clear that he is a little bugged.  We’re just used to it.  Once in awhile, though, he does shock me by being silly and talkative early on.

Friday I got the idea that I need to do some kind of project that I could finish quickly to get me jump started knitting for baby, it has just been so busy that I haven’t been able to put any time into baby knitting.  So, I made the Baby Bolero from the One Skein book.

The new mama was thrilled, it was her little mother’s day gift from me.  I went down to a size 7 even though the pattern suggested 9 because it was too loose.  I used Cascade Sierra and it feels so nice and soft.  The pattern said 2 rows of ribbing around the edge but I did 3 because I went down to a 6 on the last row and it is perfect.  I had a hard time getting a good picture so use your imagination. 

I read on all kinds of blogs that Spring has sprung everywhere.  I guess the Pacific Northwest is getting left out of that.  It continues to be nippy although they do say we are getting a few warm days sometime in the next week.  I try not to get too excited because near the coast we can be 20 degrees cooler when Seattle finally starts getting summer. 

Don’t let this picture fool you because it looks nice and springy but it’s just my reminder that it is trying to arrive.

Today after church, I got the rare opportunity (for lack of a better word) to leave church alone.  The imp stayed with his brother-in-law so he could go to kids church…as of this Sunday we only have it 2nd service now.

I drove through Starbucks and treated myself to a Java Chip frappacino which I am trying to stay away from but since I have weaned myself from Pepsi I decided to grab a small one.  When I pulled into the drive-through, we got the worst rain fall all week…whirling wind and heavy, heavy rain.  I got wet just ordering!  But yummmm, it was worth it.

It’s sometimes nice to grab a few minutes in the house alone, it is a rare day that happens.

Tomorrow starts therapy again after about a 2 month break for the wedding.  We’ll leave early enough to have lunch together so that we break the monotony of the ride in the car.  If we don’t take that break, he does not do well with the handwriting part of the hour.  She’s really good, though, to break up the time with fun play, work, fun play.

I am so tired I don’t know if I even make sense.  It was a long week going back to work after 2 weeks off.

Tomorrow I am going to figure out how to spend some of the fun gift cards I got today…one to the kitchen store (do you now how hard it is to watch your kids get all this fun stuff as wedding gifts and then see all the old worn out stuff that I have?  no complaints here, but it will be fun to get something fun and new!) and the other one I got is to the Bare Escentuals store….my girls and I love the make-up.  I also got an iTunes gift card and it is loaded on to my account so I’m going to see if there is a book or something fun like that.

Hope you all had a great day!

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