Happy Mother's Day
My mom's pretty cool. She's had a pretty stressful couple of years since my dad died. Mark and I dashed around Home Depot for at least an hour looking for a cool plant to get her. I thought cut flowers wouldn't be right. One of the fondest memories of my dad during his last week on this earth was getting roused out of bed at 5 am by the phone ringing and seeing that the hospital is calling. Of course, I'm thinking the worst and that my dad passed on and instead it's actually him calling from his hospital room asking for me to buy my mom some flowers for Mother's Day. I laughed so hard during and after that phone call from relief and amazement that my dad would even remember what day it was, let alone Mother's Day! I couldn't even be upset w/him. I laughed so hard on the phone and he couldn't figure out why. He had no idea it was 5 am and that I had just about had a heart attack! Ya gotta love your parents....no matter how crazy they are. I