Celebrating Mom.

Well Happy Mother's day! A couple of days late I know but that's okay. I have the best mom ever (well, unless if Grammi is reading this because you always have to make exceptions there in which case they're both the best mom's ever but let's not get technical). She is generous and kind and thoughtful and she loves us to bits. And she's silly and funny and she makes me laugh. Just a few of my favorite things.

We had a very fun Mother's day. I kind of abandoned Steven, which was rather unfortunate, and my sisters and I took Mom to the Mariners game. We would have taken Steven with us (we do really like to have him around) but we only had four tickets. He doesn't much like baseball anyway.

Sunday afternoon at Safeco field was absolutely beautiful! It had been raining earlier that morning so I was surprised when we drove into Seattle to blue skies and sunshine! It was certainly cold though. We haven't quite made it to perfect baseball weather yet.

The Mariners (who have actually been playing decently well this season) decided that it might be fun to lose a series to a team with one of the worst records... just for kicks. You know. So, sadly, the White Sox beat us in extra innings by 3 runs. Very sad ending indeed but we stayed until the very last out!

I also remembered to wear my Mariners earrings that Tara gave me for Christmas probably 10+ years ago, so that was fun :)

And here's the picture that was on card I gave to my mom. I just thought it was super cute and wanted to include it (this is a Hallmark card by the way. Wallgreens had a pretty sad selection of Mother's Day cards so I got this one instead). On the iside it said Get ready for the thank you dance! and it made me laugh, so I bought it.

Other random news from the weekend: Steven's test went pretty well on Saturday. He hasn't received his results yet but he felt good about it. If anything I'd say he was disappointed there wasn't more of all that crazy math he's been studying. He was looking forward to using his new skills :) We decided to take it easy after his test on Saturday and just celebrate having it over with. I made some cookies and we peeled a grapefruit for lunch and then we went to the Mint for happy hour. We shared a drink and a huge plate of fries while playing a game of Scrabble. We attempted to play Checkers first but my brain just doesn't do Checkers. I don't know why, it just doesn't. Just as we were about to go back home someone changed the TV to the Sounders game. The second half had just begun so we stayed for a while... until the other team scored and then went home to watch Million Dollar Baby. Fabulous movie!! I loved it but let me warn you, it's no Disney movie! I think I was expecting an inspirational sports film like The Rookie or Remember the Titans (another favorite of mine) but um, well, it just wasn't. This is only the second Clint Eastwood film I've seen (if you haven't seen Gran Torino you need to. Now.) and I've decided the man is brilliant. He and Morgan Freeman made quite the odd couple in this film. They were really funny together. Hllary Swank did a nice job as well. Not only did Clint Eastwood direct, produce and star in this film but he also composed the music, which was lovely. The Academy Awards they received for the film were well deserved.

So that's all I know. Steven's out making some money (modeling for his brothers art class) and I'm here all alone. I think I'll watch another episode or two of Lucy and then call it a night.