Magnificent Marveous Mother's Day

I slept in until 8:45...a miracle I didn't wake up before then! Went to 45 minutes of another ward's sacrament meeting at 11 because MICHAEL was calling at noon. TALKED TO MICHAEL for an hour and a half...yes, TRULY LOVELY!!!!! He SOUNDS SO GOOD!!! 12 weeks and he'll be home! He's decided to just work fall semester and try to buy a car and save for winter semester tuition. It was sad to hang up, but GLORIOUS to think the next time I hear his voice it will be IN PERSON at the airport!!! After his call I had a NAP! When I woke up Megan and Don had a great dinner ready. Then we played Settlers which finished 10 minutes before the start of the SURVIOR FINALE!!! I am telling you...a PERFECT DAY!!! I wanted Cerie to win, but the ending was poetic considering all the blindsiding that went on throughout the season.
Megan gave me a picture frame that said ALWAYS MY BABIES with pictures of each of the kids before they were 2. Josh made me my favorite chocolate shake. Sam gave me a shirt that says BECAUSE MOM SAID SO.Spencer gave me the SWEETEST note with a personal private promise that I loved!!! Don gave me a flower pot for my addiction.
It was just so relaxing...

ESCAPING

I know I am NOT the only one out there who does this..but I'm reading 4 books at the same time. Analyze as you wish. Each one is GREAT. I am easy to please. Somehow someone else's words running through my brain can be such a comfort. Martha Beck is just flat brillant...like her father...and I like to "feel" her processing. The Sacred Contracts is just another mid life who in the heck are you book...but dang interesting so far. And THE HOST and TWO FOR THE MONEY are just white nosie for the brain. I read Jan E.'s ONE FOR THE ? in Cancun...I'd never read that kind of a mystery before and she had me laughing out loud ALOT and dying to see how the bounty hunter was going to hook up with the love interest. Anyway..
Tommorrow I take Sam to Pocatello, Idaho for a Baseball tournament until late Saturday Night...that will be some lovely reading time. I hope the rain stops.

FLASHBACK WEDNESDAY

The Knapp Family were our dear neighbors growing up...they lived through the woods from us...and yesterday Judy sent me a ton of pictures that took my heart straight home...just thought I'd share these two...I realized that I must be older now than Mom and Dad were in these pictures...I think Kelly looks alot like Mom in this picture and that I look like Dad...now I know where I get the circles under my eyes. And SO GOOD to see Grand Dad and Grand Mom so happy. I wish he could see this. I'll have to print it and get it to him. THANK YOU JUDY!!!!

Flowers for Michael

Okay...I LOVE planting flowers in Spring. And TODAY the LOVE FEST began...and the sweetest part of it was thinking how MICHAEL will be home to see these flowers!!!!! Tommorrow I will take pictures...OINK is back in the front...thanks to Spencer. I have planted Hot Pink zinnias all around him. The weather was WONDERFUL!!! It got into the low 70's today!!!! I just worked on my phone and felt this amazing gratitude for my job.
Don is in Ottawa until Wednesday negotiating important vital record contracts.
The boys and I did our FAVORITE thing for Family Night! We went to 2 movies right in a row...MADE OF HONOR (for me) and IRON MAN (for them). The buttered popcorn ruined my perfect eating day...ummmmmm.
I woke this morning to an e-mail from Kristen Muirhead (21 yrs--Barb's daughter and hers is the BLOG with the slurp me up writing) asking me to run the St. George marathon with her October 4th...Even though the St. George Marathon has been my most favorite I've ever run, I love Kristen even more...the ONLY reason i would break my pact to not run one this year. So, we're registered and should know by Friday if we made the lottery!
Tommorrow I go to get the chicks!! Think I'll have a few neighborhood girlies come with me! Think I'll get all Rhode Island Reds this time. We'll see.

PROM

Josh the BEAUTIFUL, kind, sweet, helpful, PERFECT child, went to his Senior Prom last night with Shantel Thompson. No, he did not bring her by for me to SEE and take pictures. So, maybe he's NOT perfect...I WILL rewrite the RULES. I will make it mandatory for BOTH sets of parents to get the see their kids off before the BIG EVENTS.
Made me think of my Senior Prom and everyone coming to our house afterwards for waffle breakfast on the way to the beach...but of course...I didn't get to go to the beach for the all nighter.
The kittens are JOY. They LOVE climbing the trees!,

SOMETIMES...

Somtimes I just lose myself and am taken over by this frenzied EATER personality who has to have all the things she LOVES to eat in ONE day....because of COURSE, the next day she will be a perfect eater again and will feel for days on end that hungry, unsatisfied,knawing, left out, never get to eat good stuff again feeling. YES I KNOW that it's not true...how could I EVER go very long without something lovely on my tongue and in my mouth? But I just KEEP doing it. Now that I have confessed, I will also confess to being on a 2 week binge...each day thinking I have to eat the world because IT WILL BE MY LAST DAY BINGING LIKE THAT. I MUST STOP. I am stopping NOW...now that I have just eaten 4 rolls, roast, green bean casserole, rice with lots of butter and salt, and the last handful of SugarBabies.
Never ask me WHY I do it. Some psycho reason of extreme maladjustment and insecurity I am sure. If I could just break the cycle sooner without going for 2 freaking weeks!!!!

Breathing

yep, I'm breathing...COLD AIR..,I promised myself not to whine once more on here about the STUPID weather...but it IS just SO STUPID!!!! 36 degrees when we headed out for our long one thi MAY 3RD!!!!
I'm speaking at a Youth Conference today at Aspen Grove (near Sundance Ski resort), once I show a few condo's to this DARLING newly wed couple,and go to Sam's last game of his double header, I'm going to try to figure out how to do the MOSAIC picture thing so i don't bore you to death with all the Cancun pictures.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAVEN!!!! we'll see you tommorrow for PINK CAKE AND PINK ICING!!! I can barely wait to make it for you!!!! I think Uncle Preston and Aunt Jeremiand girlies should come down and surprise us with a visit!!!! What do YOU think?