Hi Ladies.
I haven't been on much. Did do some reading from my phone, but it is too hard to post. This week was marching band week, in addition to baseball, so very hectic. My oldest plays the trumpet and his middle school band always goes to Sequim for the parade on the Saturday before Mother's day. This usually involves about 2.5 hours of travel each way, with a ferry ride for part of it, so it is about 70 miles. This year was special, because a strategic bridge was out for repair, so the drive became 4 hours, no ferry ride. Saturday was a 4:30 AM start time, and then marching in the parade, a BBQ for 400 People (the 200 kids in the band and then family that travels to watch them), the carnival afterwards, and for me, taking my Mom out for dinner, before finally hitting the hay at her house. We got up on Mother's day morning and helped my Mom in her greenhouse (she has a business making those giant flower baskets that you see around town), weeding, replanting her personal baskets, etc. before we loaded up and headed home. Traffic was so bad, the return trip was 6 hours drive! I totally crashed after gathering up the dog, and getting everyone showered up. And today starts a week that has 8 scheduled baseball games and another parade on Saturday, but at least this one is local. To top all of this off, I had a major showdown via email with my son's coach, after he came home in tears again! It just really ticks me off how much favoratism is shown on how he plays the team. It's first his kid, second the other 4 coaches kids (yes, we have 4 volunteer coaches to assist our main coach), third, the sponsors kids (we had two parents do major sponsorships this year), fourth, his core group of kids that have played with him since tball, and then fifth priority is the two new kids to the team that have none of the above. Guess which one my kid fits into?? So, anyhow, my son is doing way to much sitting on the bench, and he has spoken to the coach about it (very respectfully) a couple of times, and the coach has assured him that he will get more play time, but then it doesn't happen. I was very hesitant to step in, but I finally just had enough. I am hoping that now the coach knows that I am aware of the crap, that now he will give him some play time. We are talking about little league here folks, not select, not high school, and certainly not the Major Leagues. Okay, well thanks for listening to my rant!
Heather and Katie: I am so sorry that each of you for completely different reasons, did not have wonderful Mother's Days. I hope that you will both have one of those wonderful Mom moments very soon, and that you know the other external stuff will pass.
Great article Steph, but I bet a woman would have written it differently. Geesh, the guy makes it sound like it's a little challenging, but really no biggy. You do make it look easy, but I know it is way harder than that guy makes it sound. So, super extra Happy Mother's day to you Steph!
Sounds like Cheryl and Linda had a wonderful time. Hi Breezy!
Hello to Everyone else! I hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day weekend. Tracey
to everyone. I'm headed to bed but I wanted to say to Heather and Kate I hope your day got better and that tomorrow goes well too.
My bf and I went to DTD. We watched Star Trek at AMC. Let me just say that I'm not a Star Trek ("trekkie") fan but this movie was really good! 
The shorts would fit but they are too short in length for my taste. Really cute though. 
This made me laugh!
I've got the windows open while it's relatively cool out trying to get some fresh air.
I would have gotten it for sure! Darn! Hopefully it will be there when I go next time...probably in a couple of weeks with the kids since they didn't go this weekend.
