Mother's Day weekend

My oh my, it has been a while. It has been busy down here in H-town with visitors, out of the loop excursions, parties and the like. Since the last real post, "Gram-pete" Peter and Sue came down for a visit. Right on time, the nasty summer weather arrived. The weekend activities could not have been more fun! Saturday saw the whole gang down at the annual Art Car parade. Shade was at a premium and we managed not only to get clutch indoor parking (even more so with no A/C in the subaru!) but we managed to carve out a good spot near the turnaround on the parade route under the trees. This year was much better than last, as we actually watched the parade instead of just seeing the cars line up. Lilly's favorite was the giant chicken car. It was awesome. Our favorite was the *heavily* modified VW that was made into a flower.

Afterward, we headed over to a friend's graduation party where 50 pounds of crawfish and several pounds of smoked meats were awaiting consumption. Nothing says high-class like a old closet door propped up on sawhorses covered in crawdaddies and keg beer. Lilly was running around like a crazy woman, flirting with all of the boys. Moving to the woods into our yurt may not be as far off as originally planned....

Thankfully, a summer version of a 'comfy front' made Sunday considerably more pleasant. Even better--it was mother's day. Lilly was not quite up to the task of fixing mommy breakfast in bed, but by next year she should be turning out a bowl of cheerios at the very least. She did come home from school with a glorious bunch of foam flowers for me that were absolutely dripping with glitter, spangles and the requisite hot glue oozes. They now sit on my desk at work.