Mother's day

Mother's Day weekend was eventful.  First I found a peacock wandering around by the bank.  

Jer started taking apart our bathroom.  I'm excited to have this done.  I hate making all the decisions about remodeling, but I love knowing when it's done.  Our toilet has stopped working, the tile is cracked and the grout is coming out... the mirror falls off the hinges if you open it and the tub door won't stay on it's track.  The shower drips constantly, the fan doesn't work and apparently they didn't use the right stuff behind the tub (which we found out as we took it out). Jer and the kids are amazing.  They did all the heavy stuff and a couple neighbors helped Jer get the tub out and to the trailer.  Jer pulled something in his back. We had been waiting for the missionaries to come by at 3:30, but they had tried to reset the appointment for 4:30.  My phone keeps randomly deleting texts since the last system update and this one had gotten deleted.  Jer was moving the tub at 4:30.  They ended up coming at 6:30.  They were whitewashing into our area and wanted to meet all the members.  The younger companion had only been out a couple weeks and looks so much like our own Elder Joseph Brasher.  They gave a message about the Book of Mormon and asked if there was anything that they could do for us.  I had tried to make sure that Jer had meds, ice and a tens unit.... and I asked if he wanted them to give him a blessing.  The younger missionary had never done a healing blessing and it was sweet to watch his companion teach him the steps.  Jer said that he immediately felt his back relaxing and has healed a lot faster than I've seen him heal with back things in the past.

For dinner I made "fancy ramen". I fried up green onions, garlic and beef. I got kimchi and boiled our last egg to slice on top.  Everyone liked it and filled up a lot faster than just with noodles.  I think it cost about $15 for all 6 of us.  It was fun too.  We've had a national egg shortage because a lot of chickens have died with the bird flu.  Our grocery stores didn't have eggs for about two weeks, but I found some on Saturday.  We're just being a little more cautious when we use them. 

My conspiracy side thinks it's suspicious that the week that the US promises weapons to the Ukraine (which we should have done a lot sooner) is the same week that 5 of our meat packaging plants burn down and over 30 million chickens catch the bird flu.  

Sam made my mother's day really sweet.  He did two batches of dishes, hand washed all the big dishes, swept the floor, cuddled with me and made me wacky cake. He really does have a big heart.