I feel lazy right now and I don’t know why. I should feel energetic since I got up this morning at six for a walk. My poor Koko can’t go for long walks anymore. It’s his hips. Now we can only walk down the street and back. But not Scotty he could walk for miles. I hate when dogs get old.

I hung out with my mom this weekend and she didn’t bring up Memorial Day. Yay! We were supposed to go to the Botanical Gardens in Green Bay. However it rained all morning so we decided not to go. They took me out for breakfast and we went to Julie’s Cafe. It was so good! The pancakes are as big as the plate. After that we went to check out Meijer which is like a Walmart layout. It’s new so I said I wanted to know what was it like in there.

I have to say I was disappointed the food is expensive compared to Woodman’s. The stuff they had wasn’t that impressive either. They had a section of clothes for big people but they weren’t in my opinion great clothes. I did buy a plant. It’s laughable that is the only thing I bought there.

After that we went to Hobby Lobby. I haven’t been there in ages. I was excited to go there. I love crafts! I bought some yarn and some hoops that I have looked everywhere for. I want to try and make dream catchers for the dads for Father’s Day.

We did go to some others stores but found nothing. Then we went swimming that was fun since it was in the eighties outside. I spent literally all day there but it was fun! See now that is how our relationship should be. I come to see her because I want too.

I thought my relationship with my mom was going smoothly lately but this weekend it changed….again. Ugh! Yesterday was Memorial Day and I told mom we may or may not come to their house. We decided not to go to their house and stay home. I got the third degree from her and she even was trying to tell me that dad was guilt tripping me.  Ridiculous!

I don’t understand why we have to go to everything. It’s not like anyone talks to us or cares what we have to say.  All mom does is care what the grandkids are doing. I have tried over the years to talk to her and all she is says “When the grandkids aren’t around, I’ll listen. Okay?” or “Not when so many people are around.” So….why should we go? Just to sit around and do nothing? Dumb.

Also when my mom called we had just gotten done ripping off the siding of our house and it was hard! There was these nuts that were stripped on to the house. I had to use my whole body and strength to get the board off. I was so tried and exhausted so I wasn’t in the mood to argue with my mom. I plainly told her we are not coming and all she does is hangout with the grandkids. She said my siblings are all going to be there. I told her they if they want to see me they know where we live. Ha! I was in no mood to be sympathetic to her. Also Jeff said he has never heard me talk to her like that. I told him when your exhausted things happen. Ha!

I watch people on TV and see how close some families are. They don’t know what my mom is like. Sometimes people say family is important. But does anyone have to put up with guilt trip after another. Then go to family functions to be ignored?! That is ridiculous! I bend over backwards for my mom but my siblings don’t. It’s because I don’t have kids. I get treated so differently because of that reason. It’s unfair.

Take Corey for example his family rarely comes to their house unless it’s to drop of their kid. Sure mom complains about it but doesn’t guilt trip him like me. She definitely sees me more than him. SO why do I have to be guilt tripped into seeing them. And it’s not like we don’t go over there or go to family functions ever. We go all the time. So what? We don’t go this one time and it isn’t even this one time. We didn’t go over there last Memorial Day. We didn’t get hassled like we did this year.

I am just mad. It’s dumb how she has to guilt trip me to do things with her. Since we go see them a lot. I would saw we see them more that they are only 45 minutes away than hour since they moved. And that is another thing we helped them move. We do all kinds things for them and they get angry at me because we didn’t go on Monday. On top of that I  will be spending all Saturday with my mom. How many of her another kids are going to spend all day with her? I do it because I want to not because have to lay down guilt.

I vented now I feel better.

I finally made some slipper socks. They were hard and I decided I don’t like making them. The heel part is the hardest.

Koko wouldn’t move so he got in my sock picture.

On Saturday we went to celebrate my Aunt Joanne’s birthday she turned 60. I was a little surprised that we were invited to her party and I thought there were going to be a whole lot of people.

This is the aunt who never has enough food on Thanksgiving but for some reason had so much food for her birthday! It’s ironic because there was so much food and not that many people were eating yet at Thanksgiving we always complain there isn’t enough food. Ha!

She rented out a hall for her birthday and I was surprised that there wasn’t that many people there. I thought for sure there would be a ton of people that I didn’t know. There were people I didn’t know but not as many as I thought.

When we got there and when we left she was very happy for us to be there. I thought that was strange. Is she getting more sentimental as she gets older?

Now I can’t prove it but I always thought that my aunt thought I was either really lazy or a bit stupid. Really! I only think that because I get this look when she asks Jeff if I have a job yet. And she talks in this tone to me somethings like I wouldn’t understand what she is saying. I don’t know why she does that. Like when she invited us to her birthday party it was Easter at my parent’s house. Her tone on letting her know through my parents it was like do you understand? Like yes I got it, I am not dumb.

Well anyway we showed up and stayed for a couple of hours. And she liked our gift we got her a Kwip trip gift card. She even gave me a kiss when we left?! What is going on? Strange.

On Thursday while on the computer, I had two visitors come near the window. It was so amazing!

I love the wildlife near our home.

Sunday is Mother’s Day. I was so hoping that Mother’s day would be at my mom’s house but I didn’t get lucky. It’s going to be at Kim’s house. Strange!

What’s the difference this year, I wonder? She never celebrates Mother’s day and now she wants to with us? It’s at her house and her house is small. A lot smaller than our house. My mom has a boot and a scooter not sure how she is going to get around in that house. It’s supposed to be nice out so we will be outside but still. Blog you know how I dislike Kim. I know it’s not about me but still not going to be great time. *Sigh*

I am still making my mom’s present. I will share when on Monday and how Mother’s day went.

Finally it was a nice weekend where it didn’t rain. That means outside projects.

We wanted someone to come over and take our porch but the guy was a no show. I hate that on classifies. If you can’t make it just say so however that will be gone soon. We had some of our trees removed in the front yard.

Unfortunately after this really bad wind storm it killed one of the trees and it was leaning towards the road. The other tree died and we didn’t want it to fall on our house. It’s sad like I said before I hate cutting down trees. 

I learned something new on my loom. I learned how to make bracelets.

They are called dragon scales. They are cool.

I thought this was thoughtful my niece Bree sent Jeff and I a thank you card. We have never gotten one before so I thought it was special. She is seven now.