Monday, May 12, 2008

Happy Mother's Day!

M and I spent Mother's Day with his mother in St Louis this year. This was especially special because according to her doctors in Baltimore and Chicago earlier this year she wouldn't be around for Mother's Day. We are so thankful she is still around and feeling pretty good to boot.

We left Colorado Springs early Thursday in a mad dash for the airport. On the way, we dropped Max off at M’s aunt and uncle’s house in Parker (between 1 and 1 1/2 hours from our house). We were at their house maybe 5 minutes because we were in such a hurry to get to the Denver airport. In fact, we were in such a hurry that I forgot to take Max's food with us. Poor Max. We made it to the airport in the nick of time. We would have barely made it, but our flight ended up being delayed an hour. It would have been nice to know about the delay ahead of time. That would have saved us $60 in short term parking. I was thankful we made it at all…and without a speeding ticket.

The weekend in St Louis was nice. It was mostly cloudy and rainy while we were there. We hardly ever see that weather. It made us both sleepy the whole weekend – and we probably had an overload of oxygen that we are not used to. M’s mom is doing well. She is feeling pretty good but gets tired easily and has low energy. We went to the botanical garden and she walked around with us for a couple of hours. We also spent time with M's sister's family. Our nephew will be 3 in August and our neice is 6 months old. They are cute kiddos. M's sister kept asking when we're moving to St Louis. It is nice for someone to want us nearby. We both wish we were closer to family. I am pretty sure neither of us miss the humidity though - and it will be quite hot and humid there soon.

Max spent the weekend with the 4 German shepherds again. He came home mostly unscathed. It turns out this is the weekend he decided to start humping. Unfortunately, he chose the largest and oldest of the German shepherds to try this out on. What a crazy dog! I guess the neutering is now right around the corner. This is a first that I don’t think either of us is upset about missing. Silly Max! He also got out of his crate twice while we were gone. We haven’t used his crate at home since early March. I guess he decided he'd had enough of the crate. I am sure he will be lonely this week.

1 comment:

Bellawhoop said...

Sounds like y'all had a nice mother's day. :) Did Max get you anything? Bex gave me lots of kisses. However, N said I'm not officially a "mother" until I have a human child. I thoroughly disagree! :) Looking forward to seeing you very soon!