Walk to Empower, Happy Mother's Day!

We are passing on the toilet training to her parents who returned this afternoon from their Cruise to Bermuda. Still no poop in the potty but she's happy to tell everybody she needs to go whether she needs to or not and then call out happily, "False Alarm!" This could get old pretty quickly if it wasn't so darn funny.

Art got up at 5:30 this morning when the temperatures were 39 degrees to pick up a neighbor and head down into Chicago for the Breast Cancer Walk to Empower Race. The plan was for all of us to go but I couldn't see waking KC and going out into the cold to walk when she still has a cough.


The 44 story CNA building had a huge ribbon. That's the Sears Tower on the left. Oops! I mean Willis Tower.


Art's mom had breast cancer and had a double mastectomy. She eventually passed away of throat cancer way too soon. She was the sort of mother-in-law paragon you wish everybody had.


Art and our neighbor, Alvin ran for the United Airlines team.


Art says although the temperatures were cool, it was a sunny day and no windchill. There were a reported 50,000 participants in the walk/race.

It was a lovely start to Mother's Day and it ended especially happily for KC who got to have her mommy and daddy back home.

I hope you all had a terrific Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day Everybody!

We had a very delicious, wonderful surprise today. My brother, sister-in-law and nephew, Cody sent us this gorgeous fruit bouquet. It came just before lunch so we really made a meal of it. My mother and I had no qualms about scarfing up the chocolate covered strawberries in one sitting. Shame on us but it was worth all the calories.
Thank you, Dennis, Nancy and Cody!

We gave Mom the azaleas to remind her of our trip to the Pacific Northwest. She's still in awe of all the incredible flowers and gardens we saw everywhere. Tomorrow my brother's family will be coming to celebrate the day with us. Then we'll take my mom for an After Mother's Day meal out on Monday.

I almost let Mother's Day get by without a to-do but my brother and sister-in-law awakened me to realize that we needed to spend some time to appreciate and recognize how lucky we are to have each other.

Happy Mother's Day to all of you out there! Have a glorious day together!