Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day! In case you missed the excessive advertising for flowers, dinner, and greeting cards, today was Mothers Day. A great day if you are the mom in my house. I had breakfast in bed! Followed by cards! And presents! And then we had a fun day heading over to the river and playing mini-golf at Lark Toys.

The best presents are homemade, especially if you live with a six-year-old boy sprite. Ian made me two homemade cards, plus a flower pot, plus a candle holder, plus a snowglobe, plus a garden stepping stone. It was like Christmas all over again. I told him that because it was Mothers Day I could hug and kiss him whenever I wanted. He groaned all day about that one.

Jeff also gave me a gift. He had my bicycle tuned up and also bought an odometer for it. I've been wanting one since he got one last summer, so that is a great little present too. Now I'm more excited to get out and go on some longer bike rides.

I did have a chance to do a little bit of gardening this afternoon. My perennials are now planted, and a few weeds are pulled, and everything is deadheaded. This time of year it's only the daffodils that are getting deadheaded, but soon there will be more, so much more. I did another round of photographing the yard, and also made a new bouquet for the week and got it up on facebook to share with Patti. There are still daffodils out there blooming, though not many now, and I'm ready to move on to other flowers for my bouquets so I chose something different this week.

Patti is very artistic and also has more flowers than I, so I can't slack off on my arranging efforts. This is why it's good to have the sharing facebook arrangement - if not for that, I probably would have avoided putting something together this week. It's kind of like having a workout buddy - except she's a flower-arranging buddy. I can't wait to see what she puts together next. It is kind of weird though, she has all these flowers to work with that are just budding for me. It's not fair! I'm in zone 4 and she's in zone 3, I should get the lilacs and irises first, but she had them a week ago and I still just have buds. Hmmph. Some things just defy explanation.