Mother’s Day 2008
Mother’s Day was great this year. The boys and I spent the afternoon baking chocolate chip cookies. Not only was this a fun thing to do with my kids it also fed the chocolate-craving shark in Shark Week (thank you Mother Nature) and each of the boys got credit for Scouts. They helped me gather and measure the ingredients and manned the mixer. Once the dough was ready they began scooping cookie-sized balls using a melon baller. “This way you won’t get your hands all gooey!” The Captain was less than thrilled with his.

They gleefully began rolling the dough into balls. They got their hands all gooey and they didn’t even care.


They had balls the size of marbles and balls the size of golf balls. Their balls made no sense! I had to step in and fix their balls. Hubby offered to help but I assured him his balls were just fine.

Finally, we had sheets of cookies ready to bake.

It’s Cookie Time! NOM NOM NOM.

I also scored in the gift department. Captain Destructo got me the Lord of the Rings trilogy book set (with a little help from Hubby) and Hubby got me The Hobbit as well as a dozen roses. It couldn’t have gotten any better if he had gotten me a hobbit holding a dozen roses!



Both the book and the flowers were a pleasant surprise, I usually have to tell him what I want for holidays. Jr brought me a potted plant from school. I have no idea what it is but it’s trying to bloom:

On Mother’s Day

And this morning. The plant next to it is Lima Bean; The Captain planted and brought that home on Friday. And this leads me to…
CABBAGE!!! Cabbage is growing nicely and he now has company: PUMPKIN!



Pumpkin on Friday

And Pumpkin this morning.
Nothing from Lima Bean just yet but we have faith that he’ll sprout right up. I got a lovely carnation from the members of my church, all the moms get one each year.

I’m going to install a CabbageCam so you guys can sit around and watch it grow, just like me!
Shut up.


















