A Sunflower Sunday

Sunday is my favorite day...I call it my "dining room table" day meaning today is the day I clean off the dining room table of all of the stuff that has accumulated during the week...plus, of course, I do the wash, the bills, the food shopping and on and on. In the winter I am usually doing these jobs in the house spending time with my husband and in the warm weather I often go outside with him and friends and neighbors. A sunflower kind of day, no matter the weather. Usually I see my KT at sometime on Sunday but as you all know she is in Colorado and I am not...and you all know that I miss her...especially on Sunday. She might help me in the garden, or walk with me at the college or even go food shopping with me just to spend time with me...good times.
But today turned into a very special Sunday because my Buddy, my youngest, was home from college for the day AND he spent almost all of it with me! I know my boy was missing his sister almost as much as I was and we were happy to have each other...and OMG, we had fun. We did the wash, ran errands, went to KT's house and picked up the mail, played with the cats and watered the plants, came home and watched JUNO and cried a little, watched some football, went food shopping for him and me, and bought some great burritos for dinner. Fabulous day for him and I. Had some great conversations and learned a few things about my freshman in college...interesting things...food for thought for me!
As I begin my reinvention of myself I know there is one thing I would never change nor give up ...my relationship with my children. My children fill my heart in a way no other person I know can...As they reveal themselves to me, whether their age is 19, 36, or 37 I find the most incredible human beings underneath their beautiful exteriors...warm, funny, sensitive, oh I could go on and on...after all, they are MY children!
My point here is to focus on the very positive aspects of my relationships with these 3...the good times, the happy moments, the sweet bedtimes...sooner or later the rougher times with my kids will probably be talked about...but not tonight, not when I am on such a natural high from the afternoon, not at the end of a Sunflower Sunday...what about you...happy stories of you and your Mother??