Mother’s Day Pictures

We celebrated with my parents and both boys yesterday. Today I am in pre-surgery prep mode so I was happy to have the day free to clean the house, do laundry, select recipes for the week and get groceries. One fun item – I am boiling local lobster tails tonight as a treat. They were on sale at Henry’s this week. I am sure they wont compare to Maine, but still! The nurse recommended that I load up on protein tonight since I have to fast after midnight. I thought this would be a pretty nice protein treat for both me and SP who is taking the day off to shuttle me around and then take care of me when I get home.

I didn’t need/want flowers this year – because look at my rose bushes! I have never seen all three in bloom so nicely! This first rose bush was already in the ground when I bought the house and I’ve maybe seen 2 or 3 blooms at once. I took all these pictures walking through my garden today. Look at this! A full bouquet on one branch:

This is one I’ve had forever. I cannot remember any of the names, but this was in a pot for years and then I put it in the ground when I moved here Sept ’03. Again – never much of a bloomer at all. Battled all sorts of fungus and rust and bugs. Shoots green stalks like crazy, but rarely flowers. Not this year:

Now this one is my favorite. SP gave it to me our first Valentines Day together. It was also in a pot until moving here. It is the only one I’ve ever had that always blooms brilliantly – and it blooms year round. If I didn’t strip them to canes in Dec/Jan, this one would be blooming 12 mos. However, like the others, the total number of blooms is pretty amazing:

What I love about this one are the changing colors. Yellow, pink and orange all on one flower. It starts out with the yellow and finishes with pink before the petals fall off. Here is a close up of a bud:

Proof of my continuing evolution to a true liberal lefty:

Ok, maybe a very chic lefty 🙂 Look at those gorgeous purple grocery bags!! They are Chico bags – $5/each. Washable, reusable, super strong and super stylin’! I ordered 10 and promptly used all of them with a rather large shopping spree at Henry’s today. I was due though since I had not really been at all this past week when it was just me at home most of the time. DS1 and I ate the cupboards and refrigerator pretty bare so I had to stock up on some things again. I like to do that with his discount 🙂 Anyway, I really really always hated using those plastic bags at the grocery – even though I always reused them as small trash bags or took them back for recycling. When I trace my progression from politically leaning right to left, the environment was my first nudge towards liberalism. I am trying to slowly turn this household more green. Or, in this case – purple!!
Amber apparently approves:

So does Chip:
I hope everyone had a Happy Mother’s Day! I am off to boil lobster tails. Hopefully I will sleep tonight. I alternate between thinking this is No Big Deal to kinda laughing at the absurdity of the whole process to really really wishing I did not have to go through it, ya know? I would much rather go to work tomorrow. It will be fine. It’s not that much of a procedure. Outpatient. Small grain-of-salt sized cells. So not much to remove so not that much to cut, right? I hope. Pffffffffffffffffffffffffft!!