May Days

This month has gone by in a blur. With all the excitement and tasks that went along with Shanna's adoption, the daily stuff of life filled in all the gaps and made for a busy and wonderful spring.

Our church went on a field trip to the farm. Megan loved riding her horse. Mary Alice is taking riding lessons each Saturday, now, and Megan has been wishing for her turn.

The girls got to hold the new baby goats. Mary Alice was thrilled.

On Mother's day, I received a breakfast of cinnamon rolls and lovely fruit salad, and these beautiful flowers, which are still gorgeous. Matthew took this interesting shot.

One of my main wishes for Mother's Day was to have a picture taken with everyone smiling (at the same time) so I could have it put onto a T-shirt and send it to Shanna. This was taken by our social worker, who came for our final home study visit on Mother's Day.

I need a haircut, and Megan is smiling her "grimacy" smile, but all in all, it's the real us.

During church, our children sang this song to their mothers.

One of my organizing clients gave me these cool magnetic shape things. I barely had mentioned it to Matthew before he dug in and whipped up this shape.

and these..........

and Eric made this, just now......

And this is it in motion..... the engineer that he is......

and finally, here is Megan reading a book, "My Home". It ends rather abruptly, as someone came to the back door and distracted her!