Spring is popping out all over......

My sage....

The garden is going crazy.  I don't remember such a beautiful spring....that might explain all the pollen.  I've never seen so much "stuff" falling from the trees and my head definitely feels it.

This is the first time for this peony to bloom since I transplanted this from the old cemetery where most of my family is buried.....

I'm still planning on putting my house on the market.  I just hope that whomever buys it appreciates the work I've put into the yard.

We had such a nice Mother's Day at my daughter and son-in-law's house.  We had a big rain earlier but it cleared long enough to get in a few pictures.

We had such a wonderful day.....I so love the time I spend with them.

It's been a busy spring so far.  It seems there are just so many weeks to get so much done.  This week we have cousins visiting from California and they're coming to my house tomorrow night for dinner..
My sisters will be here and hopefully, my brother, who's not doing very well right now, and sister-in-law and my two cousins who we've been so close to even though they live far away.  We'll all sit around the table that our great grandfather made many, many years ago and enjoy talking about old and new times.  I feel so blessed to have such a big, loving family.

Feel so bad for all of you in the midst of the bad storms.....my thoughts and prayers are certainly with you.

Have a wonderful week!

Happy Mother's Day.....

Happy Mother's Day to all you moms out there.  This is a picture of my mom & my daughter, Allison ... 2 of the best moms ever.  Sometimes it makes me so sad that Mom didn't get to see Allison as a mom & that she didn't get to know her 3 great-grandchildren (& they didn't get to know her).  Oh, how they would have loved each other.





Here's Allison with her threesome getting them ready to go to an end-of-the-year sock hop at school.  They never miss a thing because Mom (& Dad) make sure they don't.  Today they were all ushers at church & walked down with Mom to take the offering plates.  I remember a time in church when moms didn't get to do that.  I was so proud of them.  Happy Mother's Day dear Allison.

Allison's birthday!

Allison was badly in need of a day out & since it's the day before her 38th birthday we decided to go to the Christmas open house at the Thicket. It's a wonderful shop in Springfield owned by Ron & Debbie Johnson. They always give an ornament to the first 500 guests so we had to get there early. You wouldn't believe the amount of people that can crowd in his 3 stores that set next to each other. It was like a wonderland!

Ron has now written the coolest book with amazing pictures of their home. It's all about decorating for Christmas. We're planning on carrying it at Leola's so I'll tell you all about it in a couple of days. He's always been "the one" to have decorate your house for Christmas in Springfield. And rest assured he's never decorated mine -- I firmly believe in doing everything for myself (it's called being poor). He did do Allison's wedding though. I worked for him at the time & he did a truly incredible fall wedding at a truly incredible price. He did a wedding for a very wealthy client earlier in the day & had to remove all the flowers after the service so he just brought them to our church plus tons of candles. Allison & I will always be grateful to him for all the work he put into it.

Anyway, I wanted to show you these pictures of his gorgeous shop. Enjoy!