Things, Stuff & Such

For Mother’s Day I bought Mom a new bird bath. We needed one because the original bath, while very cool looking, turned out to be quite the efficient fire starter (see previous blog). I had been looking online for a couple of weeks to find one I thought she would like. It had to be a non-porous with an easily removable top so it could be easily cleaned. Bird baths tend to get a build up of bird poop and algae, ya know. I found a what I thought was the perfect one in a catalog a week ago but when I hit the website it was out of stock. Last weekend I spent one afternoon hitting all the local places I could find a bird bath. The winner was at Lowes. It’s stand is made of four iron legs holding a porcelain bowl – you can see it in the picture. The iron stand matches a trellis and the bird feeder she already has in the yard so I thought I would look nice and bought it. I didn’t think it would look as good as the original bath with it’s blue glass and water reflecting the sunlight but once it was set up I was impressed with it. And Mom was too, so it turned out well. Kevin and Ethan came down Saturday night to surprise Mom and stayed the night. We all had breakfast together and hung around. She said it was a nice Mother’s Day.

I called the boys Sunday evening to see how their day went with their mother. Scott had bought his mother a dozen roses. Aaron, apparently, spent the day over at his friend Alex’s house. No card – I had suggested a week ago that they just each make a nice card for their mother. I know she doesn’t expect gifts or cards but atleast a “Happy Mother’s Day, Mom.” wouldn’t have been to much to expect. Syria said she had to ‘remind’ Aaron that it was Mother’s Day. While I was talking to her last night Aaron had come home for about ninety seconds. I heard him come in and say something to his mother. I asked if I could speak to him but he was already out the door and gone again. I know it’s coming – the point where we as parents barely rate a “Hello” as the kids fly from one thing to another. I did it to my parents and I’m about to get a big dose of it from my children. Oh well. As long as they are healthy and well adjusted, right? How, exactly, do you measure how “well adjusted’ a teenager is anyway?

Speaking of healthy, Scott has been on a diet for a few weeks now and is doing very well with it. He is sticking to it and has lost half of the weight the doctor recommended! I am very proud of him and looking forward to seeing the results next month. Syria said she is following the diet as well. I asked her to fax it to me. I know I need it and maybe being on it with Scott will help me stick to it and give us something to talk about with each other.