Mother’s Day 2008
It was a lovely Sunday! I got to sleep in late, then we had waffles. I love making a special breakfast on Sundays, so this time I got to pick the “what.” So I picked waffles (which tho it takes time since I make them from scratch, everyone likes so there is no grumping from the boys…well, Paul doesn’t like them but he doesn’t like anything before about 11 am so we’re not going there…). And I decided to try making them buttermilk blueberry waffles…. YUM! With butter, real maple syrup or the raspberry syrup the boys love… what a wonderful way to start the day!
Paul had a lovely bouquet of flowers for me, Joshua had trotted to town on Saturday with a donation from Paul’s wallet and a grin and returned with a bag, and Eli had a project he’d worked on for school (above). We went to see Mom and give her a nice plant, and she gave me a nice check (which is going into my iPod stereo dock stash), and then we had her over for supper, too. It was a lovely, quiet, at-home day… spring has sprung in Maine, and we loved it!
Eli’s class has been working on embroidery projects with a local fiber artist (how cool is that?). When in for his parent-teacher conference I browsed through the projects admiring several, one of which–unbeknownst to me–was Eli’s birch trees! Now THAT’s COOL!
Then, Joshua knows I love stuffed animals, so he bought me an orca since we used to see and hear them from our old house in Friday Harbor. He also loves guitar, and wants one with a Floyd Rose, which is a doo-hickie so that when one uses a whammy bar (this thing that makes a sort of sound distortion) the guitar doesn’t go out of tune. So, said orca’s name is Floyd Rose. That’s him in the photo above, on some fabrics I pulled to make a Journal quilt to enter in this eyar’s exhibit…. Floyd and my birch trees are up in my studio… I have, alas, VERY little vertical wall space tho lots of sloping ceiling. So, I’m looking for a good spot for the trees, and think I have them… stay tuned!