Happy Mother's Day!

Mother's Day.

A day to celebrate moms.

A day for mom's to do what they want.

Really.

Not a day to make mom do all sorts of stuff that she may or may not want to do.

I have to thank another blogger for this advice (Foxy Wine Pocket). She schedules a spa day for herself. I took it upon myself to get in some dirt therapy.

My pumpkins are planted, flower bed cleaned and stray flowers (I've had some great volunteers) moved to another bed (I'm taking over the play area, since the kids aren't using it much anymore--to be fair, I'm working outside in, so they don't loose their space yet.) I also removed some dead plants and moved a pair of peonies to new spaces to see if they do better by the house.

Need some serious tutoring time this summer to pay for some rocks to finish off the bed. I'm also re-making a bed I tore out a few years ago to expand our deck. We didn't expand it so I'm putting the bed back in with new edging stones and will move another trio of peonies and get a couple of rose bushes back.

Ambitious summer planned, but so much less expensive than actual therapy. Looking forward to next weekend and garden plants and a couple of new columbine plants for my big flower bed. Need to find some plants that don't mind hot and dry.

Rough week last week. Way too much planned and we had to put our Bitsey kitty to sleep. Mickey is lost without his little sister and very clingy. Her healthy deteriorated all of a sudden and while we hoped she would make closer to the 18 months, we were blessed to have her a year. Both of the older kids put touching tributes to her on Instagram. Made me cry! We're in discussion now of whether or not we want another cat and if so, adult or kitten.

Be Happy! Be Healthy! Be sure to manage some mischief!