Kathy missed her breakfast in bed routine last year because of a soccer tournament, so she was particularly looking forward to the special treatment this year. The two girls took care of writing up a menu and shuttling up Kathy’s requests. Clyde and Stout brought her the paper. She received many flowers, both for inside and out.

Spring Hill got out in time for Mother’s day, so Danny was in, and Nicole drove in to celebrate the day. After church, I took advantage of having us all together and dressed up for a backyard photo session.

Kathy got a lot of flowers as gifts for both inside and outside of the house. But the heaviest gift she got was the river-rock path that Danny and I made for her garden. This is another project that Bob would be proud of. We dug out the path, put in a 4″ plastic edge, tamped the dirt, laid down weed cloth, then poured in about 600 pounds of river rock. The ends of the path are capped with some abandoned rocks we found in the Holly Lake woods. I’d like to put some larger stepping stones along the middle.

She is quite happy with her new path. (View from bedroom window.)