May 10, 2026

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• Robby left before I crawled out of bed this morning. He ran to let Dana's dogs out this morning. I took my shower and then came to the kitchen. The kids had me a frame with their pictures in it along with cards for everyone, and Robby had a note and a few candles so that was a good start to this Mother's Day.
• I made sure that Campbell was awake because she had to leave early for her chicken duty. Keaton rode with her so they could both get there early. I quickly took my shower and woke up the boys so they could get ready.
• We all squeezed in Reagan's car on the way to church-plus we had flowers for Nonna, a case of gatorade and a tray of breakfast things for Graham's Sunday school class, and cookies for Whitman's Sunday school class. It was a full car.
• It was nice having the row full of all of the kids today during big church. When church was over, we met back up at Nonna and Pops's house for Sunday lunch. She had spaghetti and all of the fixings. We ate and then visited for a little bit. Keaton and Reagan left a bit before everyone else because Reagan needed to go shopping for some things for camp.
• The rest of us came home-Robby started mowing, and his lawnmower belt broke. This has happened before; however, that means we have to push the lawnmower back to the garage. It is heavy and of course, it was at the bottom of the yard so we had to go up.
• I do keep saying "We," and I did help. However, I didn't help much. I just had to pull one bolt as the pushed to disengage something or another. I tried to help some, but this mostly just involved me trying to keep up with Anderson and Robby as they pushed the lawnmower while holding the bolt at an awkward angle (Graham would have helped too, but he was sleeping soundly.
• After this, I put Marley to bed and took my nap-and it was wonderful! Absolutely wonderful! We then left to go to the Wilson's house for supper. Anderson and Graham stayed for only about 10 minutes, but they were there long enough to have some spaghetti (notice a theme). 
• The rest of us stayed for a while before heading home. Campbell went to meet her friends for ice cream so Reagan drove me to put up Campbell's chickens-again, I have reaffirmed to myself that I do not ever want chickens!