Because the weather was so crappy on Sunday we had our pretend it’s Mother’s Day BBQ at our house last night. It was great having my mom and step dad over. Everyone seemed to have a good time. Getting all of us together is some thing we don’t do enough of. I hope to change that over the summer.

Guess who’s mom was at Kinko’s until after 10:30 last night? Guess who’s mom will never ever help her daughter again with a seven page project the night before it’s due? Especially when such daughter had a week or more to work on the project and forgot ! Guess who’s mom will need lots of caffeine today to get her through her work day? But guess who’s mom BETTER come home to a clean house and she damn well better come home to some real sucking up and thank you kisses from her daughter!

Gerry and I are still all stuffy and feeling crabby. I was feeling better Friday evening and most of the day Saturday and then I got all stuffy again and it moved in to my ears so I feel like I am under water all of the time. It’s really pissing me off.

I did still have a nice weekend and a nice Mother’s Day. I spent the day Saturday with Rebecca who is now crawling and getting in to everything. We had a nice day and sat out side for most of it. After she went home and Allison went to a friends house for the night I was able to talk my husband into a nice quiet dinner out, just the two of us. It was so nice! I had steak and crab cakes, it was wonderful!
Of course my Mother’s Day was also very nice. It was the opposite of quiet for the most part there was even living room pillow fights in the afternoon which I did not win. I never win, both my husband and daughter are too vicious. In the evening Gerry and Allison cooked me a delicious spaghetti dinner and then severed brownie ice cream for dessert. Allison showered me with handmade gifts from school that say how wonderful I am and a digital key chain that holds 60 pictures. It was really nice. I am a lucky woman.

"Aunt Jenny” that is what my pretty little niece calls me. She has the sweetest little voice when she says it too. I ended up taking Rebecca and Allison over to my sister’s house this evening and sitting with the kids for a while until she came home from work. The two babies were so cute and really good together. In fact for the couple of hours I was there, all four kids were really good and it was nice to be with them. I love it that we are all so close and spend so much time together. I have to say we are blessed with some pretty awesome kids.

Allison’s class just finished reading The Spider Chronicles with their teacher and this evening they all made plans to meet at the dollar show to see it on the big screen. Allison was so worried she wouldn’t be able to make it because it started at 5:15 and most days I am home from work just about that time but lucky for her her dad was home in time to take her. I hope they are having a good time. It’s been a while since she has been out some where with just her dad. It makes me smile at the thought of them standing in line for popcorn and Allison introducing him to all of her little girl friends.

Bethany and the baby are here for the night and so is my nephew. Making our house pretty full. We picked up a stack of movies, some thing for everyone and then this evening we ordered pizza for dinner. It’s been a great time. I love these kinds of weekends.

I even bought Jiffy popcorn to pop on the stove burner. Remember those, the ones you shake? I thought they would be fun for the kids. Well, I was wrong. Allison was too scared to hold hers and I had to pull my nephew back from placing his face right above his about a dozen times. It took about ten minutes and we finally heard a little sizzling and then they just burned. It was the worst smell. Oh well. I had good intentions.  Lets hope my plan for homemade pan cakes goes better in the morning.