Mother's Day

Happy Mothers Day, everyone! For this auspicious occasion, I went up to visit my amazing mama, to give her a gift and say hello, that sort of thing. We were all hanging out, and I wanted to see if I could put this tiny hat on the bird. I couldn’t. She didn’t care for it, she didn’t like it, and she didn’t want anything to do with it. So instead, I changed my mind and put it on Troop. It was hard, because while she’s not a quick dog, or anything, she just doesn’t like to do what I want. So mama and I worked together for quite some time to get this picture:

And it’s not even very good! But it still makes me giggle, because that hat is so small. I wish the dang bird had just been cool with things and let me put the hat on her head. Maybe someday…

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

Because this is Mother's Day, I have decided to dedicate today's post to my mama. She won't read it, (she never reads my bloggity-blog) but hey, at least its out there.
My mom is the greatest. She is a tiny feisty German woman who will stick to her guns more so than anyone you will meet. She has rules, and you will follow these rules or get her wrath-and anyone who knows history knows, you don't piss off the Germans. When I was younger, she was really strict. We had set bedtimes-which aren't bad, but oh my goodness, they were so early. I could never wait until my next birthday, in which I could extend the bedtime for a half an hour. Glorious times. But now that I'm older, I appreciate the strict-ness. There are worse things than having an early bedtime.
She is really supportive. She came to every soccer game I had-sun, rain, snow, anything. She would bring treats to them, be a carpool for it, anything. She goes to everything that her grandchildren are involved in. If they have a Halloween parade, she's there to cheer them on. If anyone needs anything, she will be there to provide it.
My mom is super thoughtful. If she's at the store and sees something she thinks I'll like, she'll buy it, and then surprise me later with it. She calls me to tell me if I got something good in the mail, or if something happened that she can't wait to tell me. If she sees something new at the grocery store that I've mentioned I want to try, she'll get it so that we can try it.
She is a hoot. She will sing all the time-operatic things that are really just saying what she's doing, or she'll sing people's names. Ok, mostly mine, but my name is very sing-able. Even though we always tell her not sing when she's doing it, its really very funny when she does it. She has these random funny sayings that just make me giggle when she says them. The way she pronounces some words are bleeding hilarious-and its even better when she'll repeat it for me, then hit me for laughing. (ok, that sounds bad, but you know what I mean)
There are so many more things I can say about her, but I don't want this blog to be crazy long. I'm glad I have my mom-and I hope that today made you all appreciate your own!