What good little children we are

Well, we are still the world's biggest wusses!!! Mom finally came home last night after being gone for 12 days, the longest we've been without her since long before dad died, and most of us showed up again. I had gotten off work early to help Karen out by watching her kids and when she got home she was telling the kids grandma was coming home and that they were going over there to see her. Well, Alex thought it would be nice to make her and Joan dinner since they had been on a plane all morning and then were driving up from Calgary.

Well, Karen bought a bunch of balloons and Veronica, Cache and I blew them up and tied them to the tree out front for mom. The funniest parts of that were watching Veronica going blue in the face from trying to blow them up and Cache just blowing spit everywhere. Then once outside they were running around chasing the balloons and 5 or 6 of them popped from playing with them. We just let the kids run wild outside for a while afterwards. They needed to burn a heck of a lot of energy off.

Mom arrived close to 730 and by that time Diana and Spencer were there with their dog too. See, we are all so wussy and missed mommy that we had to be home when she came home. The good thing was is the kids were watching a movie downstairs so we were able to enjoy mom and Joan for a while. Finally mom went down to get the kids for dinner and the excited screams that came down from there were hilarious. They kept asking all week when she was coming home. They really missed her last week at church too.

As it sits, tonight she's over with Joan at her sons house planning her September getaway on an Alaskan cruise!!!! I'm quite happy she's going and having so much fun. She came home with quite the loot for the two new babies coming this year. Blanket panels, baby clothes, plus a ton of clothes for herself. Too much fun I say ;) She was happy to see all of us and very grateful for the dinner Karen and Alex made. It was fun to sit around and enjoy that with each other and not have to worry about picking something up. I know that from coming home from travelling all day a nice homemade dinner all ready is a great thing.