My Mother's Day Gift

It's been so long since I blogged I forgot my Mother's Day Story.... so here in the UK they celebrate "Mothering Day" in March - so I thought - SCORE! I get 2 mother's days!! Well Mike said he was kinda too busy to celebrate it in March (I don't think they wanted to get up too early to make me breakfast as is our normal tradition) so I said okay no worries. They wanted to celebrate it in May. Lucas' class is the only one whose class actually made a little card or something - very cute.

But then May rolls around............ I didn't hear anything... I mentioned to Linda that I thought my family forgot - so being a great friend - she sent an inconspicuous FB to Mike to remind him - we ALWAYS spent Mother's Day with the Smiths so this year was very sad for us.......

We get up - nothing, we go to church - nothing, we come home I make lunch - nothing... so finally I ask - "what time should we call your mom?"

Mike says, "why do we need to call my mom?"
Me - "hmm, well because it's mother's day today"'
Dead silence.... those are the best responses....

So since then I've been waiting for a card, flowers, a love note - still holding my breath...so instead of 2 mother's days - I got bupkiss - and it was a New Baby year - how hard is that!?

So luckily I bought myself a necklace that I had been designing for about a month - I found this lady on Etsy.........let me know what you think...

Summer-itis

Cman - Osmington Bay


Happy Mother's Day

Happy Birthday Lucas!

Lucas' bday buddies - Jack, Ryan, Samantha, Natalie, Devon

I always feel it when May is upon us - even I get so tired of doing homework, making lunches, and going to the school - the kids are counting down the days - there are only about 3 more weeks of school left. The school year has gone by SOOOOO fast!

The kids have all grown so much this year away - in our house in Pleasanton I always measured their height on our pantry door jam - I hope it is still there but I won't be surprised if it isn't - can't expect everything to be the same in your house when you rent it out.

So many changes - We go home in less than a month, Tristan is 6 months already, Chandler is a great clarinet player (I spoke to the school band director today - said he was one of the top 2 new clarinetists and is a great sight reader), Tyler has braces and has grown up so much this year, Ian is just as happy as ever, and Lucas finally had his 5th bday party!

Cheese & Whine

Just having a calgon moment.... things have been a bit crazy around here - ugh, little Tristy Lu here seems to think she can type as well so sorry if there are typos...

I feel like lately I'm just on survival mode until Summer - but this is no ordinary summer - it will be the summer I get to sleep near my own house! How weird is that? I'm so grateful for the wonderful friends I have - offering me places to stay when we go back to the states.


Oops, have to continue this later...