Hope you all had a Happy Mother's Day. And Happy Birthday to Mark Seitz! Ride any saddles?  And Happy Birthday wishes to my best friend, Laura H. I hope your mom is doing better and returns home soon.

Mom B enjoys a plate of Scott's chocolate spaghetti for dessert on Mother's Day!

I always think of Mother's Day as more work for me! Tom thought about going out for Sunday Brunch(on Friday). Pretty much everything was booked up, or no buffet brunch. We thought about going to the zoo-taking my mom so she could use her scooter. Scott had to study for tests and the zoo closed early on Sunday. I thought about taking my mom to a movie, but it was just too nice outside, and our family went to the movies last Friday. I thought about a picnic at our local vineyard, but again, Scott had to study. And I did not feel like packing a picnic lunch. And I tried to get tickets to a Mother's Day tea with a tour of a historic home, but again, that sold out months ago. And Allison would have loved to come home or have us visit her in Salisbury, but she is also busy studying, wrapping up her finals. Instead, she skyped me Saturday night so we had a nice, long chat.

So we opted to stay home and have a nice dinner after I picked up my mom (and her laundry). I chose the menu(mainly since I did the grocery shopping). We went out to eat for Easter brunch, so I thought we could use an Easter type meal at home: Ham and cheesy potatoes. Tom made the broccoli/cauliflower salad. Scott made the dessert. Chocolate spaghetti! I also taught him how to make cheesy potatoes. So we had a nice, quiet dinner and then Mom and I took Cookie for a walk. I walked, Cookie walked and Mom B scootered through the neighborhood. I then dropped her back off to her place.

 Scott had wanted to try a new food item-chocolate spaghetti which we picked up at a specialty store in Old Ellicott City on Friday night. We decided to catch an early movie to see Captain America: Civil War. I thought it was a very similar story line to the Batman/Superman movie. But the Tony Starks character is always fun, and we enjoyed Spiderman's guest visit. We then decided to go to dinner in Old Ellicott City. Scott's food experiment turned out quite well as the chocolate sphaghetti came with a recipe for raspberry creme sauce. It made it taste like a rich, chocolate mousse. Very tasty.

On Friday night I had wanted to stop into the small church, St Pauls, for our neighbor's son's confirmation. We weren't exactly dressed for church, and turns out, there was standing room only. Even for the close family members. I am so glad Scott had his confirmation this time last year in our big church. No problem fitting in all the guests, no problem with parking and we even had ArchBishop Lori from the diocese of Baltimore presiding over the service. We just had to  suffer through being hungry and the wonderful smell of the Boy Scouts fund raiser BBQ dinner cooking in the church basement during the service. Again, Thanks to Mark and Linda for visiting last year for Scott's confirmation and extra thanks to Mark S standing in as Scott's sponsor. Anyway, we helped our neighbor's celebrate their son's confirmation at a luncheon on Saturday. Complete with Mission BBQ!  Then on Saturday night we attended an engagement party at our neighbor's house for their daughter. She is marrying a man from France who was in town to obtain a VISA as they both plan on moving to New York after the service. So they decided to have a quick party for the two of them. So we spent the entire day partying and enjoying some wonderful food!

It was a pretty busy weekend before then. Tom and Scott managed to put down some mulch that I ordered last week. Scott also squeezed in cutting the lawn in between rainstorms. We skipped the April showers and they went right into May. I still have not put in all my flowers. Making sure it stays warm.

I have also been busy after work with a few projects. I sang at the yearly GS Board meeting on Weds with our GS choir. We usually sing a few opening songs to get the meeting started. The choir usually needs some help since most girls have a hard time getting to events during the school week.