My mother likes to add egg to a lot of what she cooks. There are always several hard boiled eggs in her refrigerator, ready to be peeled, chopped and stirred into whatever she is cooking. Now I find I am doing the same thing.
I have been a huge fan of Dancing with the stars ever since the first time I watched it. I didn’t watch the first season and I have no idea just why but I got the bug when the second season started. I was in love with ballroom dancing. Unfortunately my husband and sons don’t feel the same way. In fact, my husband can be a real jerk about the show which really ticks me off. I get all excited about a dance that I saw the night before and try to tell my husband about it and say “You should have seen it.” His response is usually something real cute like “Oh I really hate I missed that” with a sarcastic tone.
What is amazing is some of the musical stars that have been on there. People like Def Leopard, Jewel, and Big and Rich. Speaking of Big and Rich, when Drew and Cheryl did their freestyle to their song ‘Save a horse, ride a cowboy’, I thought it was one of the best freestyle dances of all I have seen. When Big and Rich started singing that song, the dancing stars were dancing basically the dance Drew and Cheryl danced with the same costumes on and my thought was “Hey, Drew should be doing that song” and then all of a sudden, there he was. I was thrilled. Here it is just in case you missed it.
Well I was right!! My children got me a gift card for a spa day at a local spa. I have an appointment for today after work. I am so very much looking forward to it too. They all loved my new hairdo and it’s a good thing they lied if they didn’t really! I like it and that’s all that matters in all reality but if my husband or my children had said they didn’t like it, I probably would have changed it to something they liked even if I did like it. That’s what mothers do, work hard to please everyone else. I guess I am truly blessed that my family at least tries to see to it that I get to be myself too and not just their mother or his wife.
Today was raining and dreary and I’m so very sick of the rain even if we need it. It’s been a tough couple of months emotionally too so I thought I would treat myself to an early Mothers Day gift. I went and got a new hair cut at Great Clips and I love it. It’s totally different than I have ever worn my hair before and that’s what I needed, something different.
Next I went to a nail salon and had a pedicure and a manicure. I felt like a new woman after all of that. All women need to do something like that once in awhile. Far too often, most of what we do is for our families and we just don’t take time to do something nice for ourselves. We deserve it and in fact, we really need it from time to time if the truth is known. So if you think you’re mother might need a little pampering, Mothers Day is a good time to do something like that. Find a way to pamper her or allow her to pamper herself with a gift card for a pedicure and manicure or even a massage!!! That’s what I hope my kids have gotten for me!!!! I’ll let you know.
My cousin would have been 52 today and every year I would send her a silly ecard for her birthday. But this year, she’s gone and I think it just hit me today. This might sound like the stupidest thing in the world to do but I went to Hallmark online and sent a birthday card to her email address anyway. I had to. It just felt like the right thing to do. I told her that I know heaven is a lot brighter with her there but God I miss her!!
People come into our lives and we expect for them to be there always. Sometimes they’re not. It’s not as hard to let someone go when they’ve lived a long life. It’s not as hard to let someone go that has suffered with an illness. But when you lose someone for no apparent reason, it takes a while for that to truly sink in. Anytime you lose someone it hurts. So today I just have to say “Happy Birthday Kathy and I miss you so very much!! All my love to you!!!!!”