Mother's Day weekend is in the books. It's been pretty good for Beth, I think. Friday evening we all went out shopping at Menard's to buy Beth her annual load of flowers and plants for the front and back yards, Saturday we went to Fort Wayne for the afternoon to go to the mall so I could buy her anniversary present. It's being sized, so we won't have it for a couple weeks. We also hit Barnes & Noble and went out to dinner...for some reason she told the kids they could pick put where we got dinner and the choice was Golden Corral, of all places. We haven't eaten there since the one in Warsaw was condemned. Anyway, I don't remember it being sooo expensive, but we had 5 adult prices instead of 2 adult and 2 kids as we would have last time. Today, we slept in instead of going to church because we were all sure that there would be a lot of carnations, and a lot of perfume, there today and Beth had no great need of a migraine. So we spent the day doing yard work. I finally got the lawn tractor running (needed fresh gas, and a squirt of starter fluid) and got the back yard mowed, Beth and Natalie got the flowers and plants got planted, Alex mowed the front. Missy spent a good chunk of the day working (with me) on the 2-liter rocket egg lifter project. It looks like it'll work; we've got a nose cone resting on some brackets instead of wedged into a smaller bottle like with Alex's that failed last year. Friday I also finally got the bifold doors finished, and I hung them on Saturday. Finished projects make Beth happy.
Alex also attended his first middle school dance. More than I ever went to, I tell ya... it was a dress-up sort of dance, so he wore one of my button-down white suit shirts with a tie, and khaki pants and shoes. He looked so grown up. And so not. I dropped him off at the school, and how I felt in middle school all came back to me as I watched him walk in by himself, with groups of kids hanging out not including him all around. He had asked a girl to go with him but he waited too long and she was going with someone else, and none of his friends were going, so I was nervous for him but it wasn't bad. Some kids even tried to get him to dance with them but he wouldn't, and he texted me asking to be picked up because he was bored after about an hour. Not as bad as it could have been, I'm sure.
Softball update: Another loss this week, but we hung with them for a few innings but then they started to get away from us. I hit another double, two this year so far, as many as I hit in one or more years usually.