Mother's Day...

This Mother's Day weekend didn't turn out as we had planned. Gigi planned to visit her Mema (and Pepa). She was so excited. Had her bag packed and was asking from 8 am yesterday (flight left at 2 pm) if I could bring her and Allen to the airport. Allen had been having pain that he self-diagnosed as a kidney stone(s). After some back and forth with me (he wanted to see his Mom and didn't want to disappoint an excited Gigi), he decided it was better for him to stay put instead of getting on a 5 hour flight. Disappointment abounded, but Gigi will go, just not when she thought she would.

In the meantime, my sore throat became "sorer" on Saturday so we were a sad family....neither parent able to really parent (luckily, Grace was supposed to be here for a few hours so that I could get in the garden.) This morning, Allen felt better enough to put together Jordan's new car that arrived on Friday. Do you think he likes it?

And, when Jordan was napping, Gigi and I escaped to the garden. She brought her new tools (part of my Mother's Day gift -- thanks Grace!) and helped me weed and then searched for critters with her magnifying glass.

Gigi took a short break to make a picture for Pepa, though she then called it her "map to Florida". Can you tell this girl is bummed?

Here is a sneak peak at Eliza's garden. It is almost done....we ran out of mulch! The right side of the house (outside the wall) also still needs a bit more weeding, but we are probably 80% there.

It felt so good to spend my day this way...with my sweetheart daughter....toiling in the soil. Ironically, after she was done with gardening, she was pretending and pretending and when I asked what she was doing, she said she was pretending she had two older sisters. I couldn't hear all of the conversation, but what a sweetheart.

Now, all we need is a little more mulch and a little more time....oh and some water for that beautiful fountain (thanks, Duckies!) and our garden will be "done".

Not sure if you can see her, but Mystic is peering at us from above.

And, after a wonderful day, the guy with the kidney stone made me a yummy steak dinner. Perfect perfect day.