Happy Mother's Day!!!

I'm back - after somewhat of a blogging dry spell. It wasn't really intentional, but a combination of being busy around the house, and not a whole lot going on that I felt worthy of writing about.

So first off, Happy Mother's Day!!! To all the moms out there of course, but a few specifically on my heart today are: the mothers in my life (my mom, mother-in-law, grandmas), those mothers celebrating their first Mother's Day as mommies, and especially those who waited for any length of time to be able to celebrate Mother's Day as a mommy (Loraena, thinking of you), and finally, a group of women dear to my own heart - those of us who want to be mommies with all that we are, but for any number of reasons aren't able to be at this time.

For those of us in waiting: if it is meant to be, it will happen when the time is right - of that I am sure.

I don't think I was as "bummed" today as I was a year ago with this same occasion. Read about last year's Mother's Day response here (skip the first 6 or so paragraphs of the post to get to the point). This is probably a combination of factors: more time passed getting used to the "wait," and hope for the future - by next year I certainly hope to either have a child by adoption or maybe even biology, or to know of one on the way. I guess I don't have a lot to say (quite contrary to last year and the link above) - I am in a phase of waiting, and I am doing what I can to be proactive with the situation and working on being "ok" with all of what that entails, and that's really all I can do at this point.

Plus, we had visitors last night, which was super duper fun :) Friends from our old town/church came to spend the night on their way through town. It was so much fun to talk and reconnect. I feel like we haven't even missed a beat with them. And actually, we found out on Monday (a week ago) that they are expecting their first child in December, so in a way, we got to spend their first Mother's Day with them. And, it was also Erin's birthday today, so that was fun too - all sorts of celebrations! We weren't as good of hosts as I would have liked - the guest bedroom is the one with the flooding so they had to sleep in the family room, but they seemed to have a good time anyways :)

And finally, we and our doggies get the pleasure of their dog Muffin's company for half of the week as they are on vacation in Minneapolis - they are picking her up on the way back through town on Wednesday. She's used to things being a little different than they are here I think, being accustomed to a 1-dog house, but is getting along just fine for now :)