HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY TO MOTHER’S EVERYWHERE

 

A special yellow rose for my mother.

My mom is a never ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.

My mom and I on a shopping trip to Toronto, back in the late 70’s. I love this picture, as I can remember the day so vividly and the fun we had. Also, because I looked so thin back then!!!!!

Happy Mother’s Day to my mother, up there on a cloud somewhere, smiling down and knowing that today and everyday, you are and always will be in my heart!

Mother’s Day in Vancouver, started out with an invitation to my Step-Daughter, Meredith’s for brunch.

On the way, we ran into this:

Thousand upon thousands of very healthy Vancouverites, out for a 10 K run! 51,419 registered for 2010 Vancouver Sun Run!

We got held up in traffic for awhile, until another route became available and away we went!

The we got held up again when we got mixed in the middle of a movie being shot. Lot’s of trucks and camera equipment everywhere, but hard to take pictures from the moving car.

Then past this lovely little house that Tom wanted to point out to me, with a sort of thatch roof. Very cute!

This next picture is sent by a relative of mine whose son, just had this house of his thatched. Lovely!!

  Look on all that decorative thatch work!!! Amazing!!!

Okay…I got a little off track here, but onward ho to brunch!

As usual, a delicious array of great food! This is Meredith and Dave. Meredith (my step-daughter), just took two quiche out of the oven and Dave (Meredith’s husband) is frying bacon.

This is my other step-daughter in law, Joan and her little Grandson Byron, who brought me, his Nana, a bunch of flowers!

Martin, my Step-Son, in on the left and his son-in-law, Kevin on the left.

Tom’s Granddaughter Heather, who presented her Mom with a special Mother’s Day Gift, which I’ll show below!

Heather sneaked in her Mother’s card, the little note at the bottom! A NEW BABY IS ON THE WAY!!!!!

Dave and myself! MANY years, pounds and wrinkles from the earlier picture!! Ahh but what wisdom I’ve gained!

We went out for a walk after brunch and saw this WOMAN washing her HUSBANDS truck!!! Doesn’t she know it’s Mother’s Day for heavens sake?

Another neighbour was whipper snipping around his hedge and heard what sounded like a bird in there, and suddenly a little baby rabbit appeared. Apparently there where a few of them, but he very gently placed this one back in the hedge.

So tiny and so cute!

Off to the park so Byron could play for awhile and we could sit and enjoy the sunshine! What a lovely day!!

I went to take a picture of Heather and this little green leprechaun suddenly jumped into the picture!! Either that or Heather ate too much brunch!!! She’s suddenly very large!

Then we took a little stroll to this lovely little pond behind some houses! What a great backyard to have!!

Can you find the duck?

Meredith and Mickey the SUPER DOG!!

Having a rest!

Byron, trying to hold his smile while he says “CHEESE!”

I love the above picture but love the one below more!

Time for Byron’s afternoon snooze, so kisses for everyone before he leaves.

I’m nuts about this guy!!

My Step-Children….what a wonderful family I married into!!

These very appreciative flowers are from them, and I sure do count my blessings for these people!!

It was a lovely Mother’s Day, and I hope it was for everyone out there today!

My daughter’s Lisa and Erin both called and it finished off a perfect day!

HEY, DID YOU HEAR ABOUT…

 Well, it’s about time, I got back to serious blogging and told you about a few things happening on the West Coast!

My tooth is great now, no pain, still on antibiotics, and still have to have it capped, but other then the expense, it’s a piece of cake!!

Mother’s Day with my West Coast family was wonderful and very touching!! It was a beautiful sunny day and we were able to sit outside soaking up the rays and having a nice visit at Meredith and Dave’s beautiful home. Meredith is Tom’s daughter and my step daughter!!! I hope not the “mean” step-mother!!! We were invited for brunch and delicious it was!! It wasn’t the usual large group of family that are usually at these get-togethers, as the rest of the family had mothers and places to be as well. Joan, my other step-daughter also came and I got a lovely present and flowers from Meredith and Dave. Martin, my son in law, was away on his motorcycle and stopped in Princeton to call me on my cell phone to wish me a Happy Mother’s Day!! I was extremely touched, he’d do that and take the time. I’m one very fortunate lady to have such love from my “other family!'’ It was a wonderful day and many thanks to all of them!!

Meredith and Dave’s lovely home.

It was just a little hot out there, so Meredith rounded up hat’s’ for us to wear. We all look like idiots!! Tom didn’t  care what he looked like as long as he wasn’t squinting into the sun!! Isn’t he cute!! Become’s him eh?

   Of course I heard from my own two daughters in Belleville, and it made me cry to hear their voices, when we are so far away especially on this day! I love you kiddo’s!!

Because, I found this recipe on the net for Butternut Squash Curry, I copied it out, because it looked easy to make and Tom loves anything with curry! So, when we left Meredith and Dave’s we went down to the Punjabi Indian Market, for the stuff to make it. Darn….now, I have to cook it!!! While we where there, along came the NDP Candidate for British Columbia, and her campaign bus, so I got some pictures of her. I was right in with the big CBC and CTV camera’s, and was trying hard not to look like the idiot that stands and waves and grins and tries to get in the shot behind the candidate. However, we had to check out the TV news that evening to see if I had hit the “big time!” I didn’t!!! Thank goodness!!!! I just don’t think I could deal with Hollywood wanting me for that special part right now!!

I certainly hope she takes back BC from that crook Gordon Campbell!!!! Gosh, have I become political???

My moon shot over the Lions Gate Bridge, rounded off the day!!!

Now for the biggest news of all!!! On Wednesday (day after tomorrow), Tom goes into the hospital for heart surgery!

So far, we are hoping and praying it’s for angioplasty and maybe some shunts put into his two narrowing arteries that has been causing him much problem these past few months in being difficult for him to  be able to catch  his breath with the least exertion. So, I’m asking everyone to keep him in your thoughts early Wed. morning and say a few prayer’s that the procedure goes without a hitch and I have him home and recovering quickly.

I have more pictures and stories  of different things over the past few days, but I’ll quit now, and go read my book, while I know nearly everyone else, almost everywhere, is plunked in front of the TV to watch the hockey game!

Go Canucks!!!!