Happy Mother's day X 3 to MEEEEEEEEEE!

Yup, gotta love it.

Ankle deep in warm bubbly massaging water, tiara on head, still in my PJ's, cuddling with"fashion" youngest while getting back scratched ( hard to see in pic) by oldest.

Ahhhhh, one day a year! How can you beat it!

No. Really. I had a great Mother's day if you exclude the four hour car ride home from Memere's house, complete with death threats and the appearance of the anti-christ, aka ME.

Frank is starting to seriously doubt my said ability to drive home to NB - ALONE - with all three children. No amount of my explaining that it's just a question of being organised and prepared for all eventualities.... "so I'll learn to change the tire" hee hee. I don't even thinkI have myself fooled any longer as the time of departure slithers its way into realistic view.

OK OK OK. So I broke down and checked air fare (1700$), train fare (1500$) and postage (10$ each three business days) if I were just to mail them all home.... I feel like such a chicken! Maybe if I get some good prescription drugs for me before I go... maybe for them. Drugging my kids would be wrong, right?? Oh well. If anyone has any ideas for a more enjoyable way to travel or ideas on how to survive this kind of thing, please send them my way!

Anybody know these Goofy Goobers? 

Ode to Red

1. Cranberry red
2. red lipstick
3. red wool mittens
4. candy apples
5. maple leaves in the fall

6. roses

7. ribbons

8. tomatoes

9. stawberries

10. red and white striped anything

11. cardinals

12. licorice

13. red-breasted robins

14. wagons

15. red and white checked tablecloths

16. rubies

17. the crab sandbox

18. lobsters

19. my red couch

20. ruby red slippers

21. circus tents

22. the red of a blushed cheek

23. red embers of a dying fire

24. holly berries

25. candy canes

26. santa's suit

27. red convertibles

28. red sky at night ... sailor's delight

Yeah, Riiiiiigggghhhhhtttttt..... 

My little Fuzzy Duckling - P'tite Poussin 

Morning Cup of Joe 

I SURVIVED! ... 10 KM and she keeps on tickin'

.... Until I got home and passed out "bouche ouvert" on the couch for close to two hours!
Made for endurance I am not. We did it! We did the whole 10 km and have the blistering sunburn and aching feet to prove it. That's me above getting ready to collapse in the passenger seat.

It was really neat - if people still say neat! Yeah. There was a piping band to lead us off and keep our cadence. Then there were cheerleaders in full uniform along the route to keep us motivated and a digereedoo (sp?) player at the rest stop to provide music to tinkle by port-o-potty style!

I want to send out a huge thank you to everyone who sponsored me monetarily, or otherwise! I had never done anything like this before, especially something so that I have such a invested interest in. I was pleasantly surprised, some would say "agog", at the response I got!

Thank you, truly, from the very deepest back corner of my heart!