Friday Post…

Casey from Live Your Art has a post of things that are making her happy right now.  They’re good things, simple and true.  I’m taking the idea and using it here, though I’m too lazy to take pictures.  Sorry.

1. My book, which I’ve been sort of ignoring for a  few weeks now, though I have had this niggling feeling that I would really get into it once I started…well, I’m finally starting, and yes, I’m finally getting into it.  Yay!

2. Spring is in full bloom, though the worst of the allergies have passed for now.  So it’s about baby ducks in our swimming pool (sorry, they never seem to be there when I’m snapping pictures), clematis blooms in my back yard, and warm sunny weather.  Nice nice nice.

3. Leftovers for dinner.  I enjoy cooking, but there’s something nice about having many choices in the fridge, so all I did tonight was make a fresh salad.  Enchiladas, chicken, meatloaf, lamb stew, and pasta are all options.   Maya had enchiladas, Ted had meatloaf, and I put some chicken on top of the salad.  Yummy.

In other news, Sunday is Mother’s Day.  I’m feeling torn about this.  I used to have 6 Mother’s Day cards that I sent out.  I’m down to four. My mom you know about, and that is heartbreaking.  I couldn’t face the card aisle at the store this year, so the four moms on my list are getting stationary with Mother’s Day wishes.  They’re all awesome women, so they will understand.  The other that fell off the list is my almost mom from that first post.  I wrote to tell her about losing my mom, and she had moved without telling me, so the letter came back.  I emailed her daughter, my sort-of-sister, who emailed me right back with her best wishes and to say how sorry she was.  The mother figure?  Not one word.  Not one.  That felt like a knife, and I’ll be damned if she gets another card from me.

But while Mother’s day hurts this year, with the ads and the card and the ads ads ads reminding me every 2 minutes that my mom is gone, at the same time, I’m a mom, and I still have these 4 wonderful women as mother figures in my life.  I think Sunday will be hard.  But I’m going to try to enjoy being a mom.  I’m going to call my Grandma, and have lunch with my mother-in-law, and think of my step-mom and my other grandma, and that’s the best I can do this year.

I hope your weekend is wonderful, and that you have a very happy Mother’s Day.  All of you who still have your moms close by, hug them tightly for me, k?