Fête des Meres

Mothers day is getting confusing.  When I went to pick out cards I wasn’t sure how Gaga factored in, whether she was to receive a card from Sarah and myself or one from the grandkids as well.  Hallmark of course had cards from the grandkid, but none from the grandkids as there is little market for such people as they don’t have time to go buy cards.  I am not sure what I ended up doing but Phoebe and Ellie got a nice present for their mom.   The weather was fantastic and I took the kids out to watch the road race in the morning.  We got to see a bunch of races because they have a kid race, a toddler race, and a regular 5K and all of them run by the house twice in what is the most convoluted route ever designed.  During the previous year the kids race was badly marked and the leader went the wrong way and they ended up doing double the distance.  This year there was a rabbit leading them with a flag and plenty of gates and cones.  The toddler race was great as there was very little straight line running.  The kids really enjoyed it with the exception of a young girl way in the back who was running with a very fit mom who happened to have her right lower leg in a hard cast.  The mom was determined not to be last and the little girl did not seem to have quite the drive that her gimping mom did.   After the race Puppa and Gaga showed up after spending 40 minutes stuck in Sagamore construction and we toured the boat, opened gifts, and had pancakes.  After lunch we walked to the boatyard and played on the docks and then went to the lighthouse.  I don’t think the weather could have been any nicer.  Above:  Puppa is more or less reproducing how I’ll have to drive the boat this summer.  Going to be very interesting.  I might as well start drinking now.  Below:  Ellie is too busy with her crumbles to notice that nobody pays any attention to her.  Or, she is plotting revenge. Above: Somehow Puppa always ends up holding Ellie.  It might be a second child sympathy thing.  Luckily she held back tears for the most part.  Below:  Gaga with the girls. Below:  I am not sure what Puppa is discussing with Phoebe but there is a 99.76% chance that the main topic is boats.