Neighbours and Mom

I really like my neighbours. The two old ladies that flank our house are very nice and today Lady E (our right - if you look from the street) asked me if she could give my kids a treat. Of course I said yes when I found out that it was frozen strawberries on a stick. MmmmMmmm. Lady I on the left is the one who is moving and today she gave me a bird bath. I don't really have a need for a bird bath so I think I am going to see if my Mother wants it. She does a lot more bird watching at her house and I think she'd appreciate it more. Also the kids are currently playing at Little H's house. We ended up sharing one of the frozen strawberry treats with her. Today she ended up at my house for snack. Again. Which makes me happy for some weird reason. When I was growing up everybody wanted to come to my house for snacks or to play and I think it was because of my Mom.

I know she has her faults and I see them at lot more as I grow older, but at the same time I look back and see how much she did for us kids and our friends. You know how there always seems to be the house where all the neighbour kids gravitate towards it for one reason or another. Looking back I realize that my Mom made our house like that our neighbourhood. She made it a cool spot where we kids could hang out and not be judged or told to be quiet. Okay maybe if Dad was on shift work and worked that night, but she would merely send us to another part of the house or to the outside where he wouldn't be able to hear us. We had almost an acre and a half in that small town so it wasn't hard to find a place where we could be loud. Hehe.

Anyways one other small thing I wanted share was this morning after we dropped Bear off at school, Smiles and I stopped to watch this tiny bird eat a grub. The bird was so small that when it went into the grass I could barely see. It was literally smaller than my fist and I have small hands. Okay small for my body, but still I can wear ladies gloves sized small and that should tell you something.

1. I did housework today.
2. I cleared some of the boxes out.
3. I hosted Little H for snack again.
4. I cuddled with Smiles and played with her.
5. I called the Kidney Car Foundation to take away our beast of a van. At least this way we'll have a tax deductible receipt for it. Yeah!