Today is my loves birthday! Everyone is excited around here and we of course have a big day planned. It will start out with Mom making her famous hot cross bun french toast. (sounds like just another day with Mom making breakfast, huh) She made this for Easter an it was such a hit she was convinced (or pestered depending on how you look at it) by the boys until she agreed to make it again.
Before we get into the day, a brief update on yesterday as my mother in law was quite sad (according to her as we spoke on the phone) after reading the post. So, in short, the bank fixed our problem and charged us zero in fees, I found the missing $500,000 in revenue for the Company, and although the multi million dollar deal is still dead, we might squeeze out some compensation for our hard work and ethical business practices. So, just another day, but surely a better one than yesterday!
Now to the day at hand, Mom had a massage and manicure yesterday and arrived home just in time to grab the boys and head up to Grandma’s for a visit. We then drove down the street to our local greenhouse and she picked out some flowers, Â a few herbs and 3 squash plants that she’ll plant today. First though, she’s headed to hot yoga at 9am. They let you go for free on your birthday! I’ll pick up her cake at 2 and then we’ll have family over around 5 for a little celebration. She selected a gluten free almond tort which is basically a white layer cake with butter cream frosting and shaved almonds on top. I think there’s also almond paste between the layers, anyhow, it’s real good. We thought about going to True Grit during the day today but I don’t think the timing is going to work out, can’t believe we still haven’t seen this movie.
She’s into the second of seven days off and so far is really enjoying it. I think kicking it off with a mini spa day yesterday was a good idea. (mine if anybody cares) It’s supposed to be warm today and even warmer, approaching 80, by the weekend. The whole family is having a nerf gun war after school. (these are the kids toys that shoot neoprene bullets at pretty high velocity) The boys are pretty excited as they’re pretty good with those things. Mom walked them home from school yesterday and they want to do the same today so I’ll drive her down there at 2:45 and they’ll all hoof it back to the homestead. The oldest had soccer last night and they both have it again tomorrow. The season’s almost over, I think 3 more weeks. The oldest is pretty tired of it this year as his coach (and his high school son that helps out) seem angrier this year. I think one of his teammates parents is going to take over next year. My wife says it’s kind of a mutiny as our coach doesn’t know this, but he’s starting to swear and is getting more and more frustrated as the season goes on. He is a good guy that means well, he’s just losing his patience and his son is the real problem as most teenage boys are. Oh well, just another day huh?
The big breakfast is almost done and it’s approaching 7am. I was up at 4:15 and at the gym by an hour later. When I got back home at 6:30, everyone was still asleep. I hated to wake the birthday girl but it was time to get up. Only 18 days of school left including today, what are we going to do! We’ve had no rain so I need to run the sprinklers again this morning. There’s tons of snow in the mountains, the most in years, but little rain this year so far.
They’re milking the Bin Laden killing still on the news. It’s to the point that the oldest just asked “why do they keep bringing it up? they already killed him”. Next was “where’s his body?”, when told it was in the ocean he replied “I’m not going swimming in the ocean again as there’s a dead guy in there!”. He now just said “why do they have this on the news? Don’t they know kids watch it?” We’ve now moved on to fart sounds and more important outbursts like “all the french toast is mine” and “when’s it going to be ready”.
He just whispered to me, “dad, we still have to get Mom a birthday present”, I think we’ll go back to the greenhouse for more things to plant. They’re now both playing with some toy and Mom’s calling us all for breakfast so time to go.
Hope all of you are happy and well, don’t forget to call the misses today and wish her Happy B Day, Mother’s Day is coming fast and I know we have a lot of “mothers” reading this, so we’ll be talking with you all over the weekend. If you are not going to be home, make sure to let us know how to get ahold of you, (Dix, I know where you’ll be),
God Bless
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