Mother's Day

Being a mom is the best gift that any women could ever experience. I am blessed to have a wonderful son and husband. Mother's Day weekend was a little different for me this year. My mother in law and I used to attend Mother's Day teas with her friend Gale and her church. It was fun to be pampered for the day, drink tea and eat little tea sandwiches. There was live music and prayer. Unfortunately Gale passed away from stomach cancer so our plans have changed. I had planned to have Anthony's mom over on Sat for dinner and then we were going to go to my sisters house in Littleton for dinner with my mom. Unfortunately my mom had to work on Sat and decided that she did not want to go anywhere on Sun so she could recuperate. I was pretty bummed out that I was not able to see my mom but I should be able to see her this coming weekend. So I went to work making dinner for my mother in law. I decided to make stuffed shells with spinach, cheese and Italian sausage. Those were simple but yet tasty. Then I decided to make individual chocolate lava cakes. I am normally pretty good about following directions...so I got all of the ingredients out and got started. After a huge mess, a few missteps where I got ahead of the directions and a few hair pulling moments I had the finished lava cakes and if I must say so myself they turned out pretty tasty. I was going to take a picture of the finished product but my camera batteries were dead and no one wanted to wait that long before eating them. Sunday I was hoping to wake up to breakfast from my "boys" but I guess I woke up to early so they took me out instead. After lunch we went shopping with some gift cards we had. All in all it was an enjoyable weekend.

Me and the lawnmower

My husband works long hours and lots of weekends so I am pretty much in charge of taking care of the lawn. A couple weeks back it was time for our first mow. I pulled out the lawn mower, added gas and pulled the cord. Nothing happened! Thinking that I was being clever I added oil...well I added a full bottle of oil not evening considering the fact there is a fill line. I pulled the cord and still couldn't get the lawnmower to start. I called Anthony at work and asked him what could possibly be the problem. He asked if the lawnmower had oil. I said yes and explained to him how I had added oil. Needless to say that did not go over all that well since he knew right off the bat that I had overfilled the lawnmower. That weekend my father in law and Anthony attempted to repair the lawnmower. After draining the oil from the lawnmower and removing oil from the filter, engine and everywhere else the determined that it was toast. The only good thing for me was that they are both pretty sure that it was already toast before I "fixed" it. A trip to Home depot later I now have a new lawnmower that is pictured above. It works wonderfully and I have been forbidden from adding any more fluids to this machine!

Cory's New "Toy"

My grandpa loves Cory. He was the first person at the hospital when I thought I was going into labor with him. He waited with me through the night and then came back the next day. A very long story short on that.... Cory decided to flip around and be a breach baby. They were going to send me home and schedule a cesarean 3 weeks later when I was actually due. Since I was ill during my entire pregnancy my blood pressure spiked from the stress and Cory's heart rate went crazy so emergency surgery here we come! My Grandpa was back the next day excited to see Cory. They have had a special bond since that day. My grandpa decided recently that Cory needed a ATV. I am not sure what I was thinking but I was not envisioning a small version of the real thing! The only thing missing was a helmet...so we let Cory go around a little bit but he has been banned from touching it since then until we can find him a helmet. Being the little daredevil that he his he decided to turn rather sharply and the ATV tipped onto his leg. He had one heck of a bruise! I don't know if I am cut out for the whole ATV hobby???