May already!!!

How did this happen! How did I miss a whole month of blogging! I definitely have plenty of things to say -- so why didn't I? We finished up on the budget work at the library; now we wait. We've had some good training days for GIS and downloading eaudio and dvds. We've been bemused by the fluctuating spring weather. And I moved my mother from Arizona to Buffalo, WY.

Yep. I have become my mother's keeper. I have resisted -- and so has she -- but the time has come to bring her home to her birthplace. She has insisted that she would never leave Arizona -- she loves that summer heat. But last week she and I drove from Casper to Buffalo in on-and-off snow storms. I'm sure she must have been questioning her sanity. I was heaving a big sigh of relief -- we made it.

I think this is going to work. I think she is in a good place, and ready to be here. I think I can manage my work life and her retirement home life and my home life. I think I can because I have support from my family and my workplace.

May Day has long been my favorite holiday. It is usually a sane time of the year, but this year I forgot May Day. So I am already starting the month behind myself. As I leave work today, I will pick up flowers for my in-laws and good friends and deliver them en route. I started this tradition 20 years ago -- longer if I think about the years my little boys delivered baskets for me.

I like the soothing delivery of a little gift outside the norm. The "hi-how are ya" thinking of an unexpected greeting -- not Christmas, not Easter, not wedding. My sisters-in-law would miss my delivery -- they do call if I forget. So I will finish my day with a visit to them this year. Just as I have finished my visit with you.