Happy Mother's Day

I went to church with Brandon this morning. The pastor's wife spoke today about motherhood and all. She's a gifted speaker and someone everyone admires. She's been through breast cancer twice - both sides - in the last 2 years. During her recovery after her first surgery she brought her own mother to her house to stay because her mother had had a jaw replacement due to cancer and her body rejected the steel jaw, so they had to do another surgery and replace that. So her mother (80) and she recovered from surgery together. So she shared about that and how her mother impacted her life and the great love and respect she has for her mother. Some parts brought tears to everyone, of course.

Elizabeth had spent the night with a friend so she met us after church and we all went out to eat. By "all" I mean Elizabeth, Josh (Elizabeth's boyfriend), Brandon, William, and myself. William's parents are in MS right now. At church when they called for everyone to gather around their mothers for prayer, William was on one side of me and Brandon on the other, both with their arms around me. I felt like a midget since they are both much taller than me..lol.

Josh paid for everyone's meal but Brandon and William will be paying him back for their part. We ate at a new restaurant in Greenbrier called Roper's. Rustic theme. They serve steaks and burgers mostly. It was cute inside and the outside looks like an unpainted ranch house. The food was good and the portions were large.

While we were eating I got a phone call from my son Daniel. He's in MS now. He's had a wreck near where we used to live in MS and totaled his car. Parts of the conversation were hard to hear because it kept breaking up, probably because of all the tin inside and outside the restaurant. Anyway, he said he had to get 15 stitches in his head and he's sore, but otherwise ok. He talked to Brandon and to Elizabeth while he was on the phone. Elizabeth told him he needed to move back here because she missed him a really really lot. It was so nice to hear from him, and I miss him "a really really lot", too.

Afterward we went to Baskin Robbins and got ice creams. I paid for that. In all, I had a very good Mother's Day with the kids and the phone call. My son Michael messaged me on the Yahoo messenger and wished me a Happy Mother's Day but I was asleep when that came so maybe I'll get to talk to him in a little while.

Elizabeth and Brandon gave me a pretty card. Elizabeth also got me a pretty aqua blouse and a white strappy undershirt to go under it. I really like the set and she said she uses the same kind of undershirt because it will go under a lot of her other color tops. Good idea, I thought. Guess now I will make myself some jewelry to go with the new shirt! Brandon said he's going to get me a membership to a local tanning place. I'll have to go with him for that because I have to sign myself up. It's not something someone else can do for you.

I wound up not going to church this afternoon. By the time we were finished today, I was really tired so I just came on home. Piddled on the computer, put in a load of laundry, then laid down and went to sleep on the couch. I'm still groggy feeling. I think yesterday's shift is still affecting me. I worked from 11 AM to 10 PM with only a 30 minute break. I was in a lot of pain by the time I got home.

Brandon and about a dozen others from the McDonald's in where he works are being transferred to a store in another close-by town. Apparently, the store isn't doing well in service or cleanliness, so upper management is getting rid of a bunch of them and picked this crew to replace them because this store always scores high. They get their scores from mystery shoppers plus company auditors that come in and do inspections. The next thing is going to be figuring out how to get him back and forth to work. He mentioned that maybe another worker - Tim - would be willing to help with that.

Tim comes here pretty often anyway. Spends the night, etc. It seems like this house has become a landing zone for grown boys..lol. But I don't mind. They're all always respectful of me and are good guys. Not wild or party-ers or anything like that. Sometimes I think they are like male animals in the wild - all grouping together because they don't have their own "herd" yet.