Happy Mother's Day

For some reason I am reminded of the line from Madeline, “We love our bread.  We love our butter, but most of all we love each other.”

It was a good Mother’s Day.  I skyped with my youngest granddaughter who told me about a bear who lost his hat (with great gestures and lots of drama) while my youngest grandson looked on peacefully.  It seems this moment defines the two of them so perfectly!  I love skyping.

Then my daughter and I went to walk in Washington Park in Springfield.  The roses were lovely, the day perfect, and the wild life in full form!  We watched twenty five ducks try to mate with one female and, on the softer side, saw some very tiny baby turtles swimming in among several larger ones.  Three kinds of geese were honking among tons of little gray squirrels and lots of human children feeding the fishes!

A wonderful dinner of prime rib, mushrooms, Brussels sprouts, baked potato and a scrumptious apple dumpling finished off the day perfectly.

I came home to a message from my other son and napped for an hour until my daughter texted me to say that the final episode of Once Upon A Time was on.  I watched that then capped off the night texting with my best friend and now I’m about ready to turn off the light on this Mother’s Day.

I know I’ll have sweet dreams tonight.