Mother's Day 2020

I have to say that I'm regretting having not done a blog post for so long! I have missed documenting on so much! I do feel better knowing that I posted on Facebook during that time but the big difference is that I don't really write out everything we did when I post on Facebook. It's mostly pictures with some captions. Sometimes I explain a little but not as much as I do on blogs. It's also easier to look back at my old posts on here than it is on Facebook. My son Garrett loved looking at some of my first posts from 2008 and reading about things he had forgotten about because he was so little. He was loving it and told me that I needed to keep blogging. I was wanting to get back into blogging anyway because I feel like it is journaling with pictures and now that he said that it gives me the extra desire to keep up with it this time. So here's my first blog post in 4 years:

This year for Mother's day I woke up to the sounds of Curtis and the kids working in the kitchen to make me breakfast. I'm not going to lie, it was nice to be able to sleep in. We have been having church at home for the past 2 months because of COVID-19 and so we slowly wake up each Sunday and have church when we're ready, which is usually around 12 noon. I think it was around 9:30 or 10am when breakfast was finally ready and I was pretty hungry by then. The kids made me a couple of plate size flower shaped pancakes (which I failed to get a picture of) and some scrambled eggs and grape juice. All of it was delicious! They even went to the trouble to put our  nice red table cloth to cover the table and make it look a little fancy.

When breakfast was over I proceeded to go shower and get ready for church. I was mostly ready (just waitiing to for my hair to dry) when I came out to see what everyone was doing. I was pleasantly surprised with all the kids dressed and hair brushed and everything set up for church. On the bar counter was a card, some new flowers for our yard and a decorative calendar made of metal. It is made to flip over each month, day, and day of the week. Once again I failed to get a picture of that yet. Also, on the kitchen table was makings for s'mores, including some Reese's peanut butter cups.

After our church services everyone found quiet spots to relax and read or take a nap. This is unusual for us. Normally the 3 younger kids are running around making lots of noise and we have to continually tell them to quiet down. So this particular Sunday was rather quiet most of the day and it was nice.

The evening was filled with some nice activities: kabobs for dinner made of steak, green peppers, mushrooms, and red onions cooked on the grill outside on our new patio. Then we drove over to the Lake Lowell dam where we parked and walked across the dam and back. Afterwards we played some Uno outside on our picnic table and then we built a fire and ate s'mores. It was a very relaxing and nice Mother's Day.

We were heading back across the dam on our walk by this time and the rest of the family was up ahead of us. Both Alice and Charlotte said they were tired so this is how I solved the problem. Curtis took a picture when we caught up to the rest of the group.

Enjoying our first fire on our new patio and roasting s'mores. It was the first time I tried a s'more with a Reese's peanut butter cup in place of the usual chocolate bar. It was yummy but I think I still prefer the usual.