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On Mother's day I was in Boston and came home the night of Mother's Day. The kids were so sweet to tell me how much they had missed me. The boys told me over and over again the missed me. How nice to be missed. As soon as we walked in the door from the airport the kids were eagerly handing me mother's day cards and gifts they had made. Jonah wasn't very eager, was sitting on the couch with a pale face and the throw-up bucket, but he perked up a bit when he gave me his preasent. Grandma Hays helped Ellie and Jessica make cards for me, and she took Jessica to See's candy and they purchased a yummy chocolate for me. The girls were so proud of their cards. Mason and Jonah had made a present at school. They filled out some papers that said, "I love you because...." Mason said, because you are the best mom ever and you make the best birthday cakes. Jonah's said, because you love me and you care for me. You go to work for our family, you make lunch and dinner for me. I of coarse started crying. The papers were beautifully colored and framed. I then gave the kids their souveniers from Boston. We had fun exchaning presents. I tucked the girls into bed and the boys snuggled into bed with me for the night since we thought Jeff wouldn't make it back that night. Then Jeff did come home about 1am, he was able to get on a flight to Chicago that got in on time that allowed him to make his connecting flight. Yeah!! I loved coming home to my cute kids. They are so great and I love them soooo much. I included a picture of them since I am a proud mom.
I have been a little slow at getting our Boston trip on the blog. I want to figure out a way to make a slide show out of all of our pictures but until then, I figure I can at least write about our trip and put on a few pictures.
Jeff left on May 5th for Boston for a business trip. Then I flew out on thurs. May 8th to meet him. Eric, Jeff's co-worker, who was also on this business trip had his wife, Tamara, fly out also. So the four of us had an enjoyable weekend. The best weather we had was the Thursday evening I was there, the next few days were mild to moderately rainy.
On Friday morning, Jeff and Eric went off to work, while Tamara and I took the train into Boston and played the whole day. We got off the train at the "North Train" station, as we walked around the station we realized we were at "The Garden", the Celtic's home basketball court. We purchased a trolley day pass; it was a guided tour around the city that allowed us to get on and off
were ever we wanted to on the trolley route. It also included a 45 min. harbor cruise, which was great in the afternoon when the rain came. One of our favorite areas was the beautiful gardens/park. There were so many beautiful churches and buildings in that area also. We went to the cemetery where Paul Revere, Ben Franklin's parents and Mother Goose were buried. I can't remember Mother Goose's real name but she is a real person and she wrote the rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" about the English government and the rhyme was published in Benjamin Franklin's newspaper. There were others in the cemetery that key roles during the revolutionary war also.
On Friday evening, when our husbands were done working, we walked over to little Italy for dinner. We went to a restaurant called G'Vanni's, it was incredible. We will have to go to a bigger city to have such savory Italian food again.
On Saturday morning, we walked around town and went to Paul Revere's home which was quaint and cute. He had 16 children from 2 different marriages, wow!! He was a jack of all trades and master of many. We walked to the US constitution and took a tour of the boat. We then returned back to our downtown hotel to check out and head down the coast. We stopped in Plymouth and had lunch at a nice restaurant on the beach. I decided to order a lighter meal so I ordered the lobster bisque and a tuna salad. The tuna salad was listed as Tuna tar-tar with soy and ginger seasoning. I thought that should taste good, a ginger and soy tarter sauce. When the salad arrived, there was a large gelatinous scoope on top of a salad. I was wondering where the tuna was when Eric told me, that is the tuna. I didn't believe him. I tasted it. It had a strong fishy flavor with some heavy ginger and soy seasoning. Eric again tried to convince me that was the tuna. It was raw tuna and that is the texture of raw tuna. Not quite what I expected, but hey, I tried something new. I was really unable to eat it. It didn't suit my palat. Eric tried it and said it was a little overly seasoned. Tamara shared some of her salad with me and with the soup and rolls I was plenty full.
We drove on to where we got on the ferry and headed over to Martha's Vineyard. What a beautiful little island. I want to move there and raise my kids. I don't know what we would do for work though, maybe housekeeping at the resorts. We didn't have lot of time onthe island just long enough to see the beauty and desire to go back. We walked along the beach saturday evening, had a wonderful dinner and enjoyed a night in a wonderful resort. The next morning we got up and going as we had to get on the ferry at noon. The resort manager took us on a little tour of Edmundtown and then took us into Vineyard Haven. There we ate breakfast at the "Black Dog". It is a famous restaurant, similar to Hard Rock Cafe or IN and Out Burger, however, we had never heard of it, but now we can say we have been there. We did a little more shopping and then headed back to Boston. While in Boston we made one more stop at Mike's Bakery, yummmmm, and then went to the airport. I flew by myself on Delta and arrived home about 8:30pm. Tammy and the kids picked me up and we headed home. I was supposed to work that night at 1am but when I got home, Jonah was not feeling well. He informed me he had thrown-up 5 times at Aunt Laura's house early that day. ( Poor Laura, I'm sure that was the highlight of her mother's day.) Jeff thought he would be stuck in Chicago that night due to late flights resulting in missed connections. Tammy said she would stay the night while I worked, but when I realized Jonah was sick, I called into work. I didn't feel it fair to my child when I had been gone for 4 days to leave him all night while he was so sick. ( I am glad that is an option with my job.) The kids were so cute when I came home but I am going to blog that under a mother's day heading. Jeff and I enjoyed our short 4 days together, it was fast, we saw a lot and yet left so much more to see. Jeff wants to move to Boston whent the kids are grown. We'll see.
On saturday, May 3rd, Jonah and Mason were baptized. We had many friends and family there to share their day with them. The spirit was very strong and there was a special feel all day. The boys got their new scriptures that day along with a scripture case, a small hymn book and some scripture stickers. Jonah spent most of the day looking up scriptures to put the transparent scripture stickers in place, his Aunt Lara spent a couple of hours helping him with this. Mason looked up many of his favorite scriptures to highlite them with his new scripture crayons. Mason had a talk in church the next day and spent the evening with his Uncle Justin writing his talk. It was such a beautiful pleasant day that we will all remember
Ellie went to the dentist yesterday 4/17 to have some little cavities filled. She refused to get out of bed that morning until I threatened I would take her to the dentist in her jammies, with her unbrushed teeth and stinky breath. She finally got up 10 min. before we needed to leave. Jessica and I watched the assistant put the "happy gas" and ear phones for a movie on Ellie. ( Jessica goes next month to have some work done and was nervous about the mask with the gas.) We then went to the waiting room so Jessica didn't see more things to scare her. When Ellie was done she walked out with big puffy lips and cheeks. She looked so cute. We stopped by Grandma Carol's office since we were close by. I then bought her a milkshake for lunch since her mouth was numb. We also got her an Arby's sandwich which was a good back up since she couldn't drink her shake. She tried 2 or 3 times to drink her shake and would get frustrated everytime because her lips were too numb and she couldn't get her lips to seal around the straw enough to suck. I got a kick out of that. I helped in her class that day and the teacher asked my why Ellie wasn't focusing on her work she was just spacing off. I told the teacher I think the "happy gas" still hadn't completely left her system. Ellie was so glad when her mouth "woke up" and she could be normal again.
Ellie has had a loose tooth for the last 3 or 4 months. It finally became wiggly enough to pull but she fought it. The picture with Jeff and the pliers is just posed. Her bottom right tooth finally came out on Sunday, April 6th. Jeff took some dental floss and wraped around the tooth. He said with hardly any effort the tooth just popped out into his hand. The new tooth is already through and on its way up to fill the gap. I have tried to get Ellie to let me take a picture but she refuses. The tooth fairy even remembered to come that very night and bring a dollar.
