Weekend

I had such a great weekend... My daughter is FINALLY walking!!!
We had her marching all over God's great green earth this weekend...and she is just as proud as she can be of herself. Saturday Mom and I took our annual spring ride down rt 6a to check out the flowers and scenery. It was rainy but seemed to make all the colors pop even more.
We didn't make it all the way to Brewster as we usually do, we got to Hyannis and decided to go for lunch, then shopping. By then Mom was pooped so we headed home.
I woke up Sunday to the smell of bacon. Henri got up early and snuck out to make me breakfast for Mothers day. He came in with a card and a beautiful bouquet of roses from he and Carlie, then had Portuguese french toast, thick cut bacon and coffee.....YUM!!! Finally he told me we were going to get the flowers for my flower boxes today!!... I LOVE PLANTING MY FLOWER BOXES!!!!!!! We plated up a breakfast for my Mom, took it to her and visited for a while, then hit the road for flowers. We ended up at Wareham Walmart because they always have cheap flowers. We went to LL Bean and then stopped at Burger king for lunch took it to the Cape Cod Canal to eat and then stopped at Betty Ann's for ice cream before heading home. Henri took the lawn mower, trimmer and leaf blower to a friends small engine repair business for tune ups while I tackled dragging the potting soil out of my dilapidated garage.... It was a life threatening trip through crap, junk and scrap wood but I managed to drag the 40lb bad of WET potting soil out of the garage without breaking my neck...amazing.
As always, I overbought and had enough to plant a large terracotta planter and a small stand planter as well. It was so good to be outside and working in the dirt, The birds were going nuts in the side yard at the feeders, we have an abundance of red winged blackbirds this year. I love the sound of them. Why do weekends go so fast? I have so much more to do!!!
Back to work today....woopty doo....Happy Monday.

I got in touch with an old friend the other day. She and I went to high school together, after graduation she moved in with my Mom and I after my dad passed. She lived with us for about 2 years. Somewhere along the way my end of the friendship started to deteriorate and I really began to resent her. Needless to say we went our seperate ways. She married a cop and moved to Ct. I married Henri and avoided her like the plague. It didn't take long before we lost contact and 6 years passed by. Strangely enough she popped up last week on a web site that Henri belongs to and sent him an e-mail. Within an hour I was on the phone with her and we were catching up. It seemed good to talk to her again. I feel like I owe her an apology wich I havent done yet, I intend to do face to face. She's been through alot. She lost both her parents, an aunt and an uncle all within a very short period of time, her husbands infadelity wich eventually led to the fact that he left her and she fought prescription drug addiction,diabetes, and depression through it all. I should have been there....I feel terrible.
Hopefully we can get together this weekend and I can make my peace.

The weekend

I had a busy weekend. Friday night got together with some friends from work at the Parrot in Cataumet. Had a couple Mojitos and alot of laughs....My friend Andy stopped by when we were there one other time and his comment to me afterwards was that he felt like he was in an episode of Sex in the City if that tells ya where were all at.

Saturday was Mom's birthday. I made her my most fabulous chocolate cake, and she and I split the work of our favorite dinner.... Cape Cod turkey. It's salt cod in a white sauce topped with friend salt pork, it's drippings, and white onion soaked in vinegar. I know it sounds horrific, but it is SO damned good. Weve been having that dinner for special occasions for ever. Andy showed up as he always shows up whenever Cape Cod Turkey dinner and my chocolate cake are in the same room. We had a great time. Andy is a friend of mine who I met in high school in 1985. Weve been inseperable ever since. He's also Carlie's God Father, and he is just too cute with her. She has him wrapped right around her little finger and he LOVES it.

Sunday we went out for breakfast with Andy and his new girlfriend ( love her!) then home to get a drawing done. That's a whole other blog story in itself.

Time to get Carlie ready for school. Thanks for reading!