My Mother's Day ...

My Mother's Day was the best. In a way I guess I actually began celebrating it on Friday. I had a long weekend, as I took Friday off to attend the MegaMeet with Dale. Had a ton of fun. Spent a mint but that's okay.

Saturday I drove to Hamtramck and spent the day with my mother. I'd orginally planned to spend the actual holiday with her but decided that I wanted to spend that day vegetating.

Anyway I gave my mom the Maya Road coffee tin and altered chipboard flower book that I made her. She cried. It kind of caught me off guard. She looked through it and smiled and told me how much she liked it. Then she passed it to my father. He looked through it too and said it was nice, then gave it back to her. It was during her second look-thru that I noticed she was crying. I just kind of pretended not to notice. I'm glad I trid my hand at the lunch tins. They are becoming my favorite new thing to do. I've made five so far.

On Mother's Day I had breakfast in bed. Dave cooked bacon and sausage and eggs. Grits too. He bought coffee cake too. To drink I had coffee and orange juice. He offered to take me shopping or give me money but I said I was "good." After all, I did have the new Quickutz Sunshine set. That early gift was enough. The kids all gave me their school project gifts but I have to say that the one Justin's teacher came up with brought tears to my eyes. It was a poem about fingerprints and how children grow older and grow up. At the bottom was Justin's signature, his handprint and his spring school picture. Ms. LeBeouf must have found the picture frames at a dollar store or something - the frame was actually quite nice. I am still trying to decide if I want to take it to work and sit on my desk or put it on the mantle here at home.

Anyway, the only other thing I did on Mother's Day was scrap. I brought everything I needed into the bedroom and scrapped while Dave watched television and got some organizing done. I started working on the 7 Gypsies tag book that Ever Remembered asked me to work on. I took the Fancy Pants LO into the store on Saturday and Monica asked if I would mind completing another project for them to display. I was again honored and said "of course." Being on the KNK DT and completing projects for ER is what I like to refer to as "creativity on demand." Sometimes it takes me so far out of my comfort zone but I love it. I really enjoy being asked to work with paper and material that I might not have otherwise considered. I LOVE how the Fancy Pants LO turned out!!! I love some of the LOs I've done for KNK too and seeing how the other DT members use the kits. It's all so inspiring.

Anyway, I must have worked on the tag book for a couple of hours before my muse started napping so I moved on the the BG lunchpail that I wanted to make for Jared. I pretty much knew what I wanted to do with it so it didn't matter that my muse was slumbering. I got the pail and all of the inserts covered. I love it.

I loved my Mother's Day. I wasn't bothered at all by the gloomy, rainy weather. It was actually a great backdrop to my day. If it had been bright, sunny and warm I'd have felt obligated to go out and would not have been so productive.

Now back to the daily grind. I've been up since Dave's alarm went off at 4:00. Couldn't go back to sleep - started thinking about some things I need to get done at work. Also, checked my cell phone voice mail. There was a message from Dena that Robert's mother passed away and the funeral is today. I'm going to try and take a long lunch to attend ... How yesterday must have sucked for Robert, Greg and Vivian.

I'm not really looking forward to the workday ahead of me but by the time I get home I should have two boxes waiting for me - one from Rocky Mountain Hobbies and one from 4Ever Scappin'.

Can't believe its been more than two months since I last blogged. Haven't had much to report.
Oh well. It's 6:33 AM. Maybe I'll lie down for a few minutes before I have to get up.

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