Mom Gave Us a Surprise!

Today we decided to surprise Mom in the afternoon. I have this funny knock and when she hears it she knows it's me. My brother and his family went to Italy which caused a lot of problems with Mom. She missed him and could not understand why he was not visiting her. Remember Greg is her favorite child. Many of the days he was gone she would not get dressed, leave her room, take a shower, or eat. We went to try and cheer her up. I did my special knock and when she answered the door, this is what she looked like. She had her pj's on and there must have been twelve scatter pins that were from all the different holiday's, on her pjs. The first thing she said to us was... DON'T  I look like a doll? I told her the truth.. she did look like a doll... Happy...

Now... she does look like a DOLL.

The 4th of July with Mom..

The 4th of July was a beautiful summer day, and Mom was very sad my brother was not home yet from his vacation. We thought we would get her out of her apartment and bring her to our house for dinner. She first thought she was at Greg's house, and it took a while for her to understand it was our house. Throughout the day she kept saying she did not realize that we lived in such a nice house. She loved being on the deck and looked down at the trees, and loved the flowers around the porch.  Mom kept telling me how I need to take care of the flowers better. She told me that she knows more about flowers than I do, because she was a teacher. Mom ate very well, and we called her Miss Piggy. We took her home with a smile.

 Mom kept telling me how I should be taking better care of our flowers.

 She kept laughing and having fun at the picnic at our house.

 Look at that smile.. you know she was having fun.