Ok well my sneaky “have other things to do post” was so out of the norm that I guess I nearly gave myself away!

I took the girls up to Chicago for a surprise Mother’s Day weekend visit to see my mom. My bestest buddy was also in town to surprise her mom, so we got to meet up a couple of times which was so very cool! I haven’t seen her in almost 7 years!

We left Friday morning in the midst of a horrible thunderstorm, but we drove out of it about 40 miles outside of town. The rest of the trip was smooth sailing, the girls were fabulous, we stayed at my Aunt’s house, we visited, hung out with my Mom (yea, she was surprised, but she says she knew something was going on because of my last entry!), and even got lucky enough to be there when my Aunt & Uncle arrived from Colorado! Yahoo!

It was a beautiful weekend. I dropped off my film (6 rolls!) today so I should have it back by the end of the week.

My tulip painting is no longer available, either. I pulled it from auction and now it is with my Aunt. I’m so sneaky! ;D

Mark and I chatted for several hours today! ::biggest grins:: That was very very cool because I missed him terribly while we were gone. I’m spoiled, talking to him just about every day now. He’s spoiled too, since he asked me not to go out of town too often anymore. :P~~

So here I am, and I need to get caught up on a ton of stuff, and then I need to do yardwork (the youngins’ have summoned the pool…rut-row..) and then, paint!!!

I hope you are all doing well and had a great weekend, too!
xoxoxo