Mother's Day And Beyond

Yesterday Nathan and Kathy and family invited us over for Mother's Day lunch. Nathan did the grilling...yum! After lunch we sat and visited for a while. I didn't do much yesterday...mainly rested my back...and by the evening my back was feeling much better. I got up early this morning and it continued to feel much better all the way through our school time. Then mid-afternoon it started causing me problems again. So the rest of the day I have been resting my back and myself...mainly reading. Woody headed off fairly early for his physical therapy session. While he was out he went to Life Care and had Bible study with Jeff and then visited with several friends who are residents there. Esther and I worked some more on embroidering motifs on her doll dress during her long time with me today. Later in the afternoon she came over and did a bunch of drawings using the Osmo app that we gave her last year for her birthday. It needs my iPad so she comes over here when she has the urge to work with it. After she finished drawing, Elijah came over and wanted to finish the book that he and I read this morning. That about sums up our rather quiet day after Mother's Day.

Beautiful Day for a Fish Fry

We spent the afternoon out in the beautiful countryside of a neighboring county. We were at the annual fish fry...a fund raiser for the crisis pregnancy center in that county. I will say that I took not a one picture of the actual events at the fish fry...which meant that I didn't take any of our grandchildren enjoying all the activities provided for the children--a zip-line, bounce house, other inflatables, face painting, pony rides, etc. The food was delicious as always. Woody didn't do much meandering around. Once he got seated, he pretty much stayed seated. After we ate, Woody stayed put and Linda Hasty and I went scouting around to find a place where I could take some family photos of the Hasty family. They rarely have all ten of them together so we gathered them and posed them on and in front of a fence and hopefully I managed to get several good pics. That was the extent of my photo taking today...except to go out and take a picture of the above rose shortly before I came in here to blog. I have been having some problems with my back since yesterday afternoon (one of the reasons that I didn't walk around taking other activities at the fish fry). I did really well during the fish fry outing, but on the way home Woody hit a bump or two in the road and the "spasms" started up again. So I am gingerly moving around at the moment. I do okay as long as I stay in one place! There was a bit of walking to get from our car to the eating area so Woody got in a bit of walking today...on the grass which isn't easy...and the grass wasn't level. We had to go uphill getting there which is easier for him. I scouted out where the golf carts were to take us back to our car since it was a downhill walk...much harder for Woody to manage. So we rode in style back to our car which helped us both a lot! We are home settling in for another quiet evening after a rather active day. Woody did do his usual Saturday morning errands--WalMart, the library, and a hospital visit. I talked to Melany after we got home from the fish fry. She wished me a Happy Mother's Day because they will be going to Wade's parents' tomorrow and will be out of cell phone range for part of the day. They will come here next Saturday to celebrate with me/us.

What a Friday!

I have decided not to take the time to post a photo tonight as I have three little charges downstairs that might need some attention at any minute! Late this afternoon Elijah, Isaac, and Joseph came under our wings. Their mommy and daddy and the rest of their siblings had an out of town juggling gig tonight. If Elijah had gone then he would have missed his game. Elijah had a great game...he had two hits out of two at bats and he drove in a total of three runs. Despite Elijah's good game, his team suffered a loss tonight...only their second loss. They had lots of fun anyway! I managed to get in some sewing today. I am attempting to make what is called a "bowl cozy." It is a quilted square that ends up fitting around a bowl after some seaming and darting. Then you can place a bowl of soup in it and place it in the microwave and when it is nice and hot you can pick it up by the corners of the cozy and not get burned on the hot bowl. Well, I have three little boys downstairs who will need to head next door shortly to get in their jammies...that is after they have a snack of popcorn. Their family will be home late tonight so we will put them to bed next door and I will await the rest to get home and then I will come home. Woody is downstairs doing another round of his rehab exercises. Our household is a bit livlier than usual at this hour!

A Blustery Day in May

The wind meant that it was a rather chilly day. I stayed in most of the day trying to stay warm. I had a usual Thursday school morning. Woody headed out for another therapy appointment fairly early this morning. I did venture out mid afternoon to go to the public library. I returned some of the things that we had borrowed and also checked out a couple more books for myself. I did a little cleaning this afternoon...ran the vacuum in a couple of rooms. Woody was busily doing his exercises this afternoon. He gets new ones just about every time he goes for therapy. After we had supper, Woody went next door to take care of the crew while their parents go out for a date night. I think that they are going out for Mexican food with friends...appropriate on Cinco de Maya!

Wet Wednesday Afternoon

We can be glad that we did most of our running around in the morning and early afternoon. Woody did our weekly Krogering this morning while I was having school. After lunch I headed off to the church library to work a while. My one mistake was not getting away from the library soon enough. The bottom fell out just about the time that another worker and I were heading out. We stood inside and watched it come down in torrents for a while. When it finally let up some, we headed out and didn't get too wet. By the time that I got home, the rain had pretty much let up. I had planned to stop at the public library on the way home, but decided to do that on a drier day! I came home and fixed out supper. We have eaten and are now settling in for the evening. Tonight's blog photo shows the sage that is in the corner of one of Woody's raised beds. This rain has brought a bit of a chill back into the air. I think that it may be rather cool in the morning. I think that they are calling this "blackberry winter." I pulled out a sweatshirt again today. I keep taking cool weather clothes out of my closet and then keep finding their way back in. I will try again after this cool snap...maybe they will stay in that other closet after this?

Busy Tuesday

A rather busy Tuesday in our household. I had school with the neighbor grandchildren in the morning. Joy worked on catching up her sewing notebook...printed pictures and got the pages ready for her to put the pictures on next week. Woody headed off to therapy while I was having school. He also worked a little in the yard...trying to get more grass to grow in the front yard. After a quick lunch I went to get my hair cut. I also made a trip to JoAnn's. I needed two coordinating cottons to make something that I have been planning for a while. I also found some material for Abigail's next project/s. I have the fabric all washed and ready for our projects. My former "boss"/owner of the local Montessori school and I had a nice phone conversation this afternoon. It was good to catch up with her. I have cleaned a little and read during my resting moments. I still have part of a load of wash to put away that's still in the dryer and another load to put into the dryer. THEN it will be time for me to put my feet up for the rest of the evening. Woody just got back from the prayer room at church. He is still driving to and from...not up that far a walk. He is still going easy on his walking. Last week his walk ended up being a bit much and his leg hurt more for several days after the walk. He plans to pretty much just walk around in our yard and walk when he grocery shops, etc. I think that we are settled in for the evening. I know that I am tired. I'm hoping that I sleep better tonight than I did last night. Woody's eyes seem to be getting better with the drops that the doctor prescribed for him.

It's May!

An experiment tonight...have tried to load a short little video of our chicken yard art. Well, experiment didn't work...so went back to posting just a regular picture. This is the first rose to bloom this year on the rose bush that friends gave me after my mother died. It tends to bloom each year right around Mothers' Day. Today has been a pretty typical Monday. I had school with the children and Woody went to Life Care to have Bible study with Jeff and then visit with several friends who reside there. He also had his eyes checked out...they had been bothering him and were red. I'm not sure what exactly was decided, but he doesn't have pink eye. He got some drops to put in them. This afternoon he made his vegetarian chili again. As soon as I post this I am heading next door to have strawberry shortcake with Nathan, Kathy and family...so posting quickly! (Not sure that the video worked...will work on it or post something else after strawberry shortcake!)P.S. The strawberry shortcake was yummy!Here's a picture of the chicken yard-art as a still shot...the chickens peck when the wind is blowing...that's what I wanted you to see in the video.