My Mommy Day

Happy Mother's Day. I hope you've had a nice day with your family today. Mother's Day is rarely a full family affair in our household. Every spring the Navy sends Mike off on a last tour, trying to hit the high schools before the school year ends. He's always away from home on Mother's Day. I think it bothers him more than me. Mother's Day is a nice idea, but I don't need a special day to know that I'm blessed with a great family!

Zachary woke up this morning with a sore throat and a headache. Sniffles came along shortly thereafter. Even though Alec isn't sick, he has DECIDED that he has whatever Zach has. Because of that, this is what my boys have looked like most of the day. We're on our third movie of the afternoon!






















My sweet boys did present me with some treasures today. They both made precious clay sculptures this week. And Daddy took them shopping for other gifts before he left on his trip. I was blessed by an abundance of love (and awesome scrapbooking stuff!).

I am blessed!

Mike the rock star

So Mike has been on tour for the past week. He's currently in Denver and was on a local news channel there last night. I love when he does this kind of thing because we (his family) rarely get to see him play. The boys LOVED watching this! Hope you enjoy it too.


http://www.2thedeuce.com/entertainment/localmusic/

Mother's Day Tea

Alec's preschool hosted a Mother's Day tea this afternoon. I was treated to several songs, with my favorite being "You Are My Sunshine." I was also given a beautiful handprint poster made by Alec and lots of hugs and kisses. We had little triangle sandwiches with apple juice and hot tea. What a lovely way to celebrate being a mom to such a sweet, smart little boy.

Funky Monday

Mike is somewhere in Colorado for the next couple of weeks. This movie is primarily for him so he can see his boys. Of course, you are welcome to view it as well. And yes, I'm having a bit too much fun playing around with the video editing software. Cheap entertainment for me. :-)

Funny and Fantastic

Photography

The other night I told Mike that I wanted to start taking pictures of things that epitomize the Pacific Northwest before we head back to the central part of the country. We came up with a few ideas:

I want a picture of . . .
1)the road signs pointing the way to the ferry landings.
2)a QFC grocery store. (We never had heard of QFC until moving here.)
3)a Fred Meyer store. (Again, never encountered one until moving here.)
4)the "Tsunami Evacuation Route" signs that we occasionally see.
5)the Salmon spawning signs along the rivers.
6)the view of the Space Needle from our house.
7)guys in shorts, wool socks and sandals when the weather is cold and rainy.

I'm trying to come up with other ideas. Anyone have any unique photo ideas for me?

Fiction: "Super Kitty" by Alec

My boy Alec has written his first book. He's always telling us "Super Kitty" stories and I decided he needed to get one of them down on paper for prosperity. I'm going to post photos of his book, even though they are a bit fuzzy. The words are his; I only acted as a scribe. The illustrations are also his. I think it's very clever, especially considering the author can't actually read or write yet. :-)

Once upon a time...

A kitty changed into Super Kitty!

She needed a cape. She got her cape at the cape factory. (This is my favorite line.)

A bad guy stole ice cream from Cloud the dog. Super Kitty tickled the bad guy and got Cloud's ice cream back.

Super Kitty saw a monkey in trouble. He lost his balloons. She caught the balloons and gave them back to him.

It had been a long day so Super Kitty flew home to be with her boy Alec.

Super Kitty and Alec were best friends. They lived happily ever after.



The end.

Or perhaps I should say, "To be continued." Alec says the next installment will be called "Super Kitty Goes to School."