Awesome. And not.

Mother’s Day this year came with two really great flea market trips. That was awesome. Grants behavior at the second one was not awesome. 

We keep making pies - this strawberry cheesecake pie was awesome. 

Samantha’s art was selected for the district art fair. Also awesome. 

This is the earliest we’ve ever started swimming, which is awesome. But the boiling 100 degree heat is not. 

On the way home from the flea we took alien photos. Sam is obsessed with aliens. 

A random duck laid a single egg in my flowers, it’s been moved to An incubator to see if it hatches. Could be awesome? 

Mother’s Day with my girl. Awesome. 

The final orchestra concert for jack! Awesome. 

A misshapen butterfly I had to euthanize. Not awesome. 

 And an awesome Mother’s Day selfie with my kids - who are starting to dwarf me in photos - AWESOME! 

Not awesome - lest anyone think the world has returned to normal when reading this in years to come :

We are set to overturn roe v wade (and a whole host of other women's healthcare)

There is an extreme shortage of baby formula - scary

War is still raging in Ukraine 

Covid numbers rising again

American covid death toll reached one million this week 

Inflation hit 11%

Gas is over $4 a gallon 

And times, well, they are still hard. :(