Thanks

It's been a whirlwind couple of weeks: the wedding, the travel, the reception, wisdom teeth and all the follow up problems, the trip for the second reception (which was likewise wonderful).

We'd initially planned to celebrate Mother's Day in a week or two, when Susie was feeling better; but with her surgery for the abscess (following the dry socket following the initial wisdom teeth extraction) on the day of the first reception (advice on the side: have your wisdom teeth out when you're young), she wasn't feeling quite up to doing a lot with the reception other than attending. Traveling was out for Susie for the second reception. Instead, I flew with Samara to that, cancelled the side trip to the home office on the way home (because I was flying, not driving, and the home office was only "on the way" if I jumped out of the plane). We left on a 6 am flight on Saturday; returned on a 6 am flight from two time zones east of us on Sunday; made it to Church after a brief nap, and had no plans for Mother's Day (which we intended to delay, because I wasn't going to be around to help celebrate).

Enter an invitation to Sunday Dinner from a wonderful daughter-in-law's parents. We were only able to contribute leftover wedding cake; we REALLY appreciated someone looking out for us, when we hadn't had time to look out for ourselves. Our kitchen is still somewhat trashed... but we'll get it cleaned up sometime this week; the lawn is over a foot tall in places... but we'll get it mowed sometime this week; and the windshield wipers on the Festiva are still misbehaving... but we'll get that fixed before it rains on Wednesday. Life is getting back to "normal" - whatever that is.

What's really matters is that at a time when we needed it most, we had a chance to get away for a bit and enjoy a Mother's Day dinner with family.

Thanks!