The Month that Was: May

As pretty as the baskets are on the porch (the whole point of this picture), I can't stop seeing the limp, hanging screen in the top window.  It just happens that I just rescreened that window last year- after years of having a ripped screen in it.  Gah!  MOSES!!

Memorial Day brownie pizza- despite it's appearance, it isn't burnt to a crisp.  :-)

First bouquet of the season!  It was slim-pickings in the flower circle, but hopefully enough to brighten the spirit of one whose spirit needed brightening.

A Cousin Campout at the Lake: in which Littles swim incessantly and Mamas do a lot of yawning.  Still have not figured out the secret to actually SLEEPING at a campout.  Or how Little people can keep chugging along without it.

Beautiful Adele' came along to the campout even though she wasn't feeling super hot.  Here she is looking all lovely and cheerful despite the fact that she would be sicker than a dog just an hour later.

She went home to sleep (and puke) in the comfort of her own home.   I bet she slept better than I did.

A spent bouquet of lilacs, dying gracefully

sourdough Naan

(never thought to use the table that way...)

...still not writing...

We have Gary and Linda (Matt's parents) over for supper every Thursday night.  

We've nicknamed it GLupper Night (get it?!)... 

and this Glupper night we invited other family over for a secret birthday celebration for Gary.

Minus one grandchild 

Ineke is a poet and she didn't even know it.  ;-)

a birthday lunch date with my Mom and sister

Judah's most recent pen-pal envelope art made ME want to be his pen-pal.

Another apt title for this blogpost would be "The Way to this Woman's Heart"

or possibly,

"Let me introduce you to Corynn's Fella"

He was, after all, the man behind all those amazing hanging baskets smattered throughout this blog post.  He surprised me (blew my mind, really) with FOUR of the largest, most beautiful, extravagant hanging baskets for the porch on the day before Mother's Day.  As he brought them to the porch, the rocking chair area was positively swallowed up with blooms!

Didn't he know I already really liked him?!  ;-)  

Seriously though, it was such a thoughtful and sweet gesture... he would have won me over even if I had a heart of stone.

So that handsome guy attached to Corynn's hip is Kemuel and I suspect you'll be seeing more of him.

The day after Mother's Day was my birthday and Matt and the children made it so special for me.  Lots of beautiful lilac bouquets (my children know me well), a pint of my own ice cream, some wonderful presents- INCLUDING a DANCE PARTY LIGHT!!!! ('Cuz I'm down like that.)

And four, count 'em FOUR of the sweetest cards/notes in ONE DAY in the mail for me from sweet friends and family (you know who you are) who really cannot know how special they made me feel.  It has been ages since I received something noteworthy in the mail- and four at once blew my mind. (Bills, while they may come in fours, DEFINITELY do not count.)

All in all, May will be a hard month to beat!

And now that the month on the calendar coincides with the month on the blog, I hope I can manage to squeak out more than a single blog post each month.  

No promises... but lots of hope and plenty of intentions!