Nap time

I’m at a puppet show. What are you doing?

This is why we don’t plant our garden until the end of May. There’s always that rogue freeze in the middle of May.

I don’t get sweet, poetic, full of emotion cards from Kris. They always have something to do with cars or crap…potty humor is his favorite kind of humor:)

I will never forget the first card I received from Kris. We had only been dating a couple of months. The first scene in the card was a fly sitting on the table in the waiting room at a doctors office. It had on a patient gown and looked sick. In the second scene, the fly doctor comes in and says, “You need to lay off the crap.”

I kind of already had an idea of Kris’s sense of humor but his family was mortified when I opened that card. It became this hilarious joke that comes up every so often, or whenever he gives me a card.

I love you Kris. Thank you for creating these beautiful children with me and giving me the gift and privilege of being a mom.

The children surprised me with breakfast in bed, along with flowers and cards. Izzie picked out the fruit herself and one of my favorite fruit smoothies. She gave me a red flower and Noah gave me a pink flower. Kris also got me a card and some yummy dark chocolate.

Love my family to pieces. I’m so thankful I get to be their Momma.

3:15am: Izzie came in the room and said she couldn’t sleep. She was afraid a spider was going to eat her. (We live by the lake and the spiders are starting to come out to play.)

She began crying because she doesn’t want me to wake up when she gets up in the morning. She has a whole mother’s day surprise planned for me, which includes waking me up when everything is ready.

I told her to be really sneaky quiet and if I wake up, I’ll go back to sleep;)

This pretty much sums up our day. I was just as thrilled as Noah to be at the doctors. He wasn’t the one getting a shot. I walk around feeling like I have a knife stuck in my shoulder. I’m kind of used to it, but I get cortisone injections every two weeks and those push me over the edge. The injections have to go right into the Keloid scar and it hurts like hell every single time. Izzie was so proud of herself. After the doctor was done she said, “I kept my eyes open the whole time!” The doctor replied, “So did I!” Seriously, one of my favorite doctors. When he walks in, he spends the first five minutes making the kids laugh. Before he leaves, the jokes and laughter continue. Today, there were two other residents in the room with him. One was new and she just kept looking at him, like he was weird. The kids think he is hilarious.

Kris’s grandpa, otherwise known as Big Gigi, had knee replacement surgery last week. He is recovering at a beautiful rehab facility. The kids and I went to visit him after my appointment. Sitting at the doctor’s for over an hour did wonders for Noah’s behavior. By the time we walked into Gigi’s room, Noah was done. There was a lot of growling, crossing arms, and stomping around. He did settle down a little bit when we visited the birds. The facility has a beautiful bird house and the kids loved it. Gigi arrived right before we left and the kids gave her a giant hug. We went home and did our best to get through the rest of the evening. At one point, I realized the children had been awfully quite in their room for some time.

I let them be…