Hello Everybody!

Well it’s post Mother’s Day and I wanted to check in on all of you Moms to say I trust you felt celebrated, appreciated, and all the other “a-teds” a mother should feel on that day!  I know from all the FB postings and what nots you joined me in receiving your share of special brunches, lunches, dinners, cards, flowers, spa days, and what have you from your adoring first priorities and loves of your lives.

This was one of my favorite gifts.  I received it from my nine year old son Jack. He made it at school, and gave it to me Monday morning after giving me his card and gifts on Mother’s Day.  He was a little bashful and embarrassed for having forgotten it on Sunday.

“I love you more than anything Mom” he said

…and he purposefully walked into the kitchen through the hubbub race we call Monday mornings, and quietly and shyly presented it to me, complete with a warm, full, two-arm, Jack hug and sparkling blue eyes that he got not from me, but from his Dad (mine are brown).

And I’m sharing it with you because of all the lives you light, including mine.

I hope you had a very Happy Mother’s Day.  Keep letting that beautiful light of yours shine…

Hello Friends!  Welcome to today!

I just HAD to share these beautiful flowers with you!  I absolutely LOVE flowers!  Look at that marvelous, saturated, velvety, color!  Heavenly.

Jack, Joseph, and I were at Salem College today.  Jack takes piano lessons there and while he’s doing that, Joseph and I do homework.  And when that’s done, we walk around on nice days, climbing trees and looking at the beautiful flowers that are offering up their full glory free for our eyes to see and our hearts to enjoy this time of year.

Here’s Joseph in said tree…nice outfit son-shine!

And here are some breathtaking azaleas – just look at that orange!!  What a color combo!  So. Very. Gorgeous!

Oh and by the way…do any of you know what the bluish/purple flowers are?  They hang down and have a beautiful, unique type of star shape to them and they have a nice fragrance too.  I’m going to have to look them up…

Or maybe I should wait because you know what they are…

I’ll wait to see if you do and if not, I’ll look them up and let you know!  How’s that???

And so…Joseph and I had some excellent, springy, “Mommy and Me” time enjoying the trees, the flowers, the weather and each other for a little bit today.

Here’s Joseph…

And here’s a selfie of us together with Joseph showing off his new lost tooth!  Two gone on top now!  My baby’s growing up…

And that’s all today – it sure was beautiful complete with sunshine, brilliant spring colors, and each other…and we were so thankful to be able to meander around together for a few stollen moments – our very own little “Spring Fling” if you will.

Hope you’ve gotten or are able to squeeze a spring fling in for yourself – in spite of any obnoxious allergies that we all seem to have during the blooming season!  Sniff sniff…allergies – BE GONE!

And you, be well my friend – happy spring!