Mother's Day Weekend and Home Projects
Mother's Day weekend at home in San Marcos, and it turned into a working one. Two bouquets showed up — sunflowers and roses in one, stargazer lilies and white roses in the other, with a card from the kids tucked in among the stems.
The big project was our daughter's bedroom: the dark teal is finally coming off, primer going up in patches around the windows while the bed sat under a drift of boxes and blankets in the middle of the room. Somewhere in the same stretch the pink hair dye happened — hair, hands, most of the way up both forearms, and a shirt that already matched.
In between, a lot of nothing on the patio. One kid parked in the hanging hammock chair with a tablet, then asleep in it under the fur blanket, one bare foot hooked over the edge. An old print of the whole extended family, everyone lined up on the grass, went up on the corkboard.
After dark the string lights along the fence doubled themselves in the pool, and a red ball sat on the end of one of the loungers where somebody left it.
