FLOWER POWER

Look what you "made" me for Mother's Day.  It's just what I needed...a plastic flower bouquet.

Julie knows me all too well.  That little seedling you gave me last year only lasted a few weeks.  How can I possibly kill this?  If not me, it'll be you or the dogs. 

GREEN THUMB

Thanks for my Mother's Day gift.  It's a little geranium that you "made" at Julie's.  Between you and my lack of a green thumb, I give this doomed sprout about 30 more days to live. 

MOMMIE DEAREST

Mother's Day celebrates that ideal of love and sacrifice, otherwise known as motherhood.  This year I got to celebrate my first Mother's Day because of you.  32 hours of labor?  Yeah, I'd say I more than earned this day.

That's why I turned it into a whole weekend.  Well, it kind of worked out that way due to scheduling.  Thanks to you and your dad for being good sports and accompanying me to Bend to visit some good girlfriends. 

Maybe one day you, Aerilyn, and Adeleine will be as good of friends as me, Kathleen and Rachelle are.  I'm sure you won't hold it against them that they spent all weekend trying to feed you with their doll's plastic baby bottle.