Even the clouds are sad...

My mom went home this morning...and it appears that even the clouds are sad. It rained all morning and afternoon. Rain, rain, rain...I was so sad for her to leave. We really had a great time.
Thank you mom, for your countless hours of teaching me on the sewing machine--I am glad you got that spark back. I wish we could shop for fabric for hours on end...with an unlimited supply of $$$....but that is clearly all a dream. I had the best time with you--and I can't express just how grateful I am for that. You just made the days seem brighter and the time fly faster. Thank you a million times over...

Sigh...but instead of crying about it, I better relive our memories at least one more time and share some pics!

The night before my mom left we had one final splurge and ran fabric shopping and to get cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory. Oooooh....yum! It was DELICIOUS. We brought it home to eat and share with Brandon, who had watched the kids for us yet again. Thank you sweetheart!! Brandon's cheesecake was a banana cream cheesecake...

Mine was a peanut buttery one with reeces and butterfinger...SO rich...took me a couple days to get through it. But it was GOOD!

And my mom got the 30th anniversary one--mixed with cheesecake and chocolate cake, and some other yummies in the chocolate flavor...

And on Monday we took the kids to the Science Museum to play--we had a great morning.

note to the picture below...sign said NO CLIMBING. Well, Kaden can't read and I didn't realize until he was up there. He was SO proud--so I laughed and took a picture, and then he fell flat on his back. Poor guy. Guess there is a reason for their sign.

We had a coupon for a free kids meal at Bob Evans, so we stopped there after the museum and ordered some lunch. The kids love going there--okay, I love going there too--it was tasty and totally hit the spot! Kids had a great nap afterwards and we sewed for a good while that afternoon.

I wish I felt totally motivated right now...instead, I feel blah. I know I need to get the house back in order and catch up on laundry and "stuff" that I got behind on while my mom was here, but I just want to climb the stairs to my room and lock the door and sleep all day long. :) It doesn't help that Kaden is catching on to the potty training thing but instead of using the toilet, resorts to using anything that is bowl shaped (an upside down stool, the block bucket, the crockpot, my tupperware bowls, etc. It is SO frustrating. I feel like I have a puppy, which I don't have for THIS exact reason.

And it probably also doesn't help that Spencer woke me up at almost 1 a.m. and even though he just needed snuggled for a minute, it left me wide awake until 4 a.m. when he woke up again...I finally fell asleep at 6 a.m. this morning for less than hours before having to face the day...and I feel exhausted.

And I also sound like I am moping and complaining (and no, I didn't mean to write MOPPING...though I should be doing that instead)

Just miss my mom today. Missed my sleep last night. And wanting to miss the bodily fluids of a 2 year old that don't seem to make their way into the toilet where they belong.