May 12th, 2025

It's a rainy Monday here, gloomy, dreary, wet and well, we need the rain after our long dry winter, so I won't complain (much).  It was dark and sporadically rainy yesterday as well.  And it having been Mother's Day, well, I can only hope that not a lot of folks around here had planned Mother's Day picnics!

I felt very celebrated all weekend and the weather did not impact it at all.  Even when it might have we just pivoted to Plan B!   Gotta be flexible.

It was a full weekend of celebration around here!  Wow!  In total I had an ice cream fest (3 different sorts of small batch locally made excellent flavours and of course I had to try them all), donuts (including the beauty at the top of the page that was ALMOST too pretty to eat), dinner out (ooo fancy!),  flowers (so pretty!), phone calls (love those so much) texts (also made me feel special!), brunch at a restaurant I'd never eaten at before (had avocado toast and it was fabulous) and cards that were funny and sweet and made me cry a little (which is to say, perfect cards).  Whew!  Sunday night the original plan was burgers on the grill at home but weather issues and all meant Burgers cooked inside instead!  Also excellent!

Saturday morning was relegated to yard work and we got a LOT done. Once we got cleaned up and changed, we were up and out and errands run including buying bird seed. More about that later this week.  A little teaser for you :)

It was a great get things done sort of day and I do love crossing things off the gotta-do list!  But Sunday was My Day.  It got to call all the shots.  I gave it a lot of thought. What did I really want to do yesterday?  I wasn't absolutely sure. The weather was yucky enough that while we did manage one walk without getting wet, I wasn't in the mood to risk getting soaked with an outside thing.

And as they day passed and I still wasn't coming up with a brilliant plan for what I wanted to do, I decided that perhaps I didn't really want to do anything at all. Maybe I just wanted to be a lazybutt. Perhaps I wanted (needed?) a do-nothing day!  And that is as rare as snow in July.   So, as it was my day and therefore my choice, we did little to nothing. We watched old movies and did some reading. We played with the cats and snacked. We talked and sent each other funny videos.  It was such a relaxing, no obligation whatsoever, glorious blob of a day and I squeezed every single second of enjoyment out of it that was humanly possible.  It was an Ahhhhhh day.

Sometimes doing nothing is the best sort of thing to do!!!  It was Perfect!

I hope you either felt well celebrated and appreciated, OR  made someone else feel that way on Mother's Day  this year.  I know how much I loved my day AND the people who  made it happen.