Mother's Day Redo

The day before Mother's Day, I came down with strep throat. I guess I'd had it for a few days because I felt completely awful by the time I landed at the Urgent Care Clinic. Needless to say, my Mother's Day this year was remarkable mostly in how lousy I felt...and, of course, in the lovely card and gift Pumpkin made for me at school...and the beautiful flowers my goddaughter Lis sent me. At least, QT was able to postpone his departure until Monday so that he could go shopping for groceries and get the house in order for me before he left.

To make up for it, we decided to have a Mother's Day Redo the following weekend. Before we could get to that point; however, QT first had to go out of town on business for almost the entire week leaving me home alone with the kiddos. And, to liven things up even more, Pumpkin also came down with strep throat the day after QT left...though, in light of symptoms that I only came to understand afterward, I have to say that he'd probably had it at least as long as I'd had it only with less severe symptoms thank goodness.

For our redo, Pumpkin wanted to take me out for some ice cream and glow-in-the-dark mini-golf. As usual, QT did his best to ruin our morning by getting all grouchy on us, and I contemplated just leaving him behind, but in the end, I didn't say anything. Well, I didn't say anything about wanting to leave him behind. I had plenty to say about his grouchiness. Believe me.

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I forgot to mention that Pumpkin performed in his school play last month! They did Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Pumpkin's class sang (and kinda sorta danced) in the opening numbers. It was really cute though Pumpkin appeared to be starstruck by the older kids that appeared on stage with them, haha. I will try to post a video clip, but I have the same problem I had with his last school video. That is, our Video Camera does not transfer videos easily onto the computer. I'll give it a try sometime when Giggles isn't yelling for me from her room. In the meantime, here's a picture of Pumpkin all duded up for his big number. Plus, a few more pics too just for fun. :)