June 17, 2009

Iron Skillet steak with mushrooms and onions and mashed potatoes

First day of Summer Vacation

Sunset clouds


Relaxing on the docks

The hay needs to be baled

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June 17th - a day to remember. The last day of school for the kids, or should say 1/2 day where they enjoyed taking their yearbooks in to get more signatures and say their good byes. Both going to the next grade, with straight A's in the 4th quarter report card. Yeah !!!

Its also a special day that Mark and I were married 14 years ago and went to Hawaii for our honeymoon but it just seemed like yesterday. Our ups and downs, we can say we're truely blessed with two fine children and many more years to see what comes our way. For dinner we went to the Perk and this is where we had our first date. (Wow the Perk has come thru a few changes like us. ;) )

It continues to rain, this is the first year that soybeans were not planted by Memorial day and if the rain keeps up, with no dry fields for at least a week, the 70 acres of soybeans will not planted. (A sad year for our fellow local farmers) It maybe the final straw when Mark gives up farming all together. The garden continues to be a big mud ground and it may be that I just get tomatoes, if any from the 28 plants that I planted.

Always Mother's Day

Every day is Mother's Day to me. I consider myself lucky to have two fine kids who get along well and enjoy life as their individualities.

It's Sunday, my day to go to work so I know they are in good hands with their dad, who took them to church and they got to play their violin duet during 'Offering' time. From what I heard, they did well and I did hear it on the church CD.

Coming home, I got a surprise - the house all tidied up and I didn't have to go to room to room cleaning up before my bath. I went to take some pictures, and Josh said he wanted to too. So instead of looking for pictures, I took some of him concentrating on some little buttercups in the wind. I also got a poem book, Josh wrote for me in school (a few funny pages exerts above) and dinner out with our favorite friends at the 'China Wok'.

Everyday is Mother's day and again I celebrate God's gift of Children in the world. Like Carters says, "They just don't stay little", so enjoy them every moment.

'Brain Age'

Its a calm evening outside but the news of a BIG Winter storm is in the back of many minds, is it going to be as much as anticipated? I hear 6-8 inches for Monday and another 1-3 inches for Tuesday. With gusts of winds, could easily make traveling hard to drive in.

Perhaps no school again and the kids are happy to know this but on the other hand, my son was looking forward to chorus and my daughter didn't want to lose any more snow make-up days to holiday vacation.