So many things!

I'll start with Saturday a week ago. It was the day before Mother's Day. We went to Edgefield to give Oma her present and take her out to lunch. We made her a book through Shutterfly; she liked it so much. I think at first she wondered why we bought her a book. We told her to open. When she turned to the first page she said, "Oh, my". It was a picture of her and Ernest. I'm glad we made her smile. Lunch was great too!

Mother's Day was good. I did very little, which makes for an awesome Mother's Day. The girls made me some awesome presents. They had been hiding behind their loom boxes for days.

African violets from Jesse

Hummingbird from Chloe

Carolina blue "Mom"

John ordered me a garden cart, which came later in the week. He and the girls put it together Friday afternoon and I LOVE it!

I have to tell you, especially Courtney, about my two awesome finds this week. I haven't mentioned it yet on the blog, but I bought myself a new bike a couple of months ago. I haven't ridden it yet, because I needed a new seat (the one it came with is horrible; Jesse said it was too, so it is not just me) and a new helmet because mine was about twenty-five years old. lol  Anyway, we went to Academy last week to get my seat and I found a beautiful helmet. When I went to look at the cost, I was elated to find it was on clearance. The original price was $22 and it was on sale for $10. Score!!  My second find was earlier in the week. I mentioned earlier on the blog my verbena died. :(  Well, I happen to find, not one, but TWO verbena on the clearance rack ($1 each) at Lowe's because Lowe's was trying to kill them. They are doing awesome now and seem very happy by the mailbox. :)

Friday we spent some time with our friends the Finnocharios. We met them at the zoo after Chloe volunteered at the library. It was the first time we had the chance to really hang out since Lauren had Samuel. And he is totally adorable! I took pictures but have not downloaded them yet. Sound familiar? lol

We did have a sad note this week. We have lost, yet another, beloved librarian. Amanda is leaving our branch for another branch, to make working while achieving her educational goals a bit easier on herself. While we are elated for her and her education, we are sad to be losing another librarian. She is hoping once our branch's new building is complete her education will be done and hopefully she can return as a full librarian. We hope so!