Mother's Day

I don't know why I torture myself, but every once in a while I'll stop and think about mom and how wonderful she was and how much of her still lives in us kids. And of course then I'll start bawling my eyeballs out and I have to wonder if this is healthy? Perhaps it's still part of my mourning process. I don't know. But I read back a couple years to when I posted about my mom's and grandma's death. I remember most of it, but of course some of it I had forgotten. There are so many times that I think about something and wonder what mom would have thought, or what she would say to Lorien and Vanessa. Anyway, I've got to change the subject!

Except I'll stick to mother's day! So today Jimmy woke up before me and I thought he was just getting ready for church, but no! When I woke up he had an English muffin with ham, cheese and eggs ready for me! I'm pretty sure that was the first time he's ever done that for me. It was really exciting. Then while I was eating he was getting the girls ready for church. He had to leave early to go to a meeting and the girls and I still made it to church on time! A little early even. Jim and Eldona were there with Crystal and Chris so we sat with them. Vanessa sat with Crystal and Lorien sat with Grandma. Uncle Ryan gave a great talk about mothers and the children sang Mother I Love You. It was very nice. Christy sat with me most of the time and sang all the hymns at the top of her lungs. After church the girls gave me tissue paper flowers and said Happy Mother's Day to me. Now I'm waiting for Jimmy to get home so we can meet his family at Jim's parents grave site. I really hope he isn't late!
Jimmy is still doing a great job at Costco. He's started to work really hard cleaning up the backyard and landscaping the front yard. Of course he thinks it's all silly and does it just because I ask him to. That ok, though, it will look amazing when we're all done. As you know, we planted like 50 seeds in compost about a month or so ago, they all rotted in the soil. I really needed miracle grow. So we built a planter box, so now we have three, then got a yard of compost and filled the three boxes halfway. All along the back fence we put compost as well. I had already transplanted strawberries in part of it, and in the other part I just planted seeds right in there, Pumpkin, sunflower, artichoke and kiwi. The kiwi seeds have not popped up yet. In the boxes we put lettuce, carrots, tomato, cucumber, broccoli, zucchini, cantelope, corn and beans. The carrots didn't make it, and the cantelope hasn't popped up yet. In the front yard we made an herb spiral. It's 12' round and I only have three plants in there now, feverfew, fennel, and lemon balm. I'm grlowing basil, oregano, sage, chives, rosemary, and a couple others that I can't remember, in some dresser drawers.
The kids are doing great! Christy is growing like a weed, Vanessa is getting more insecure around other people and Lorien is learning despite her complaining.
I've got about 3 months lefts to be pregnant. I'm going to the Dr on Tues to find out if I have gestational diabetes and getting an ultrasound on Wed to see if I have placenta previa. I hope with all my heart that everything will go well no matter what the outcome of those tests! (as I sit here eating chocolate:)
Well I have to go.
Anne