Bienvenidos y feliz Cinco de Mayo, amigas!! Thank you for joining me for Currently 05.2021 and an update on my spring goals. With a little hodgepodge thrown in for good measure. Like sugar on the rim of your margarita glass. Today’s post is coming to you on the 5th of May which is actually a bigger celebration here in the U.S. than it is in Mexico!! Wherever you are celebrating, hope there’re tacos on your plate and tequila in your glass.
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Currently 05.2021
Our prompts for this month’s edition of currently are: consuming, exploring, getting, hoping, seeing. Here are my responses.
Consuming…
Republic Spirit Blends jalapeño lime mixer. Made in Texas. Nine unique flavors like prickly pear and green chile lime. Can’t wait to try them all. I mixed it once with tequila but have also been drinking it alone on ice. Really tasty and refreshing. Perfect for your Cinco de Mayo celebrations. Learn more here and here. Also plan to make these crab and shrimp enchiladas for Cinco de Mayo and will probably consume them, too!!
Exploring…
possible accommodations for our hopeful birthday trip to either South Padre Island here in Texas or Cancun, Mexico. We have one birthday in June and four birthdays in July. Several years we have gathered in Galveston, Texas for our festivities. I would be great with doing that again. Fingers crossed we can meet up at the beach somewhere.
Getting…
back on track with my Weight Watchers points, exercise, my routine here at home. There is a two-hour difference in the time between our house and our mothers’ homes. While in Ohio and Kentucky, we were waking up about 6:30 or 7:00 am EDT (4:30-5:00 am MDT) which was much earlier than we are used to get up here at home. Now that we are back on mountain time, I am getting up at 5:00 am and it isn’t hurting a bit! Of course, I begin to crash and burn about 7:00 pm now, though.
Hoping…
to take this little one to meet my mom who is her great grandmother and namesake. Lauren and Francisco have asked me to go with them to see “Honey” as 5 year-old Lucia calls my mom over Memorial Day weekend. Mom has never met 1 year-old Camila Jean who shares the same middle name with her great grandmother, Nira Jean.
Seeing…
and oohing and ahhing over this terrific art my granddaughter Lucia drew at school yesterday. How ’bout this haunted house, complete with black cat, ghost and witch on a broomstick. I love to draw. And apparently all 3 of my granddaughters have inherited that same gene.
Spring 2021 Goals Update
Revealed my spring 2021 goals in last month’s currently post. Haven’t made much progress.
- Spring cleaning: each room from top to bottom, including window washing and blinds, laundering bedding, curtains and drapes, and carpet cleaning. Mark my words, next week is the week. I am not helping with the babies, have zero appointments so it is going down.
- Finish mosaic: my #100DayProject. I have been working on it pretty regularly until the last week. Added black glass to the design and not crazy about it. Ugh. But discovered that a little too late!! I was able to get the black glass off my mosaic by using Q-tips soaked in water to loosen pieces so I could pop them off. It was slow going but I am so glad took it off. Have a couple of small areas to fill in and I am done. Just in time for the #100DayProject deadline of 05.10.2021.
- Begin side yard work: in an effort to be more environmentally friendly, we are going to replace the grass on the west side of the house with xeriscaping. Going to add a flagstone walk with rock landscaping around it. Something like the one in this pin from Pinterest, meandering around our Texas ash and peach trees and our oleander. We bought the supplies for reworking the sprinklers on the side yard. And they are still in the trunk of my car. Does that count as progress?
Hodgepodge
Joining my friend Joyce at From This Side of the Pond for the Mother May I edition of her weekly hodgepodge series.
May
1. What’s something you ‘may’ do this month? Travel to Lexington to visit my mom with Lauren, Francisco, Lucia and Camila.
2. Last time you literally or figuratively shouted mayday!? Yesterday. Trying to get help for my mom at her assisted living community. She is supposed to be receiving 3 showers a week but has not been helped with a shower by anyone at her apartment for ten days. While we were visiting her, I did help Mom shower a week ago this Thursday. With her history of UTIs and terrible hemorrhoids, this is unacceptable. I sent a mayday email to the director of the complex. I’m tellin’ ya, today she made things happen around there. Hallelujah. Prayers answered.
3. Let the chips fall where they may, come what may, maybe, Cape May, mayflies, devil may care, you may now kiss the bride, much to our dismay, mayhem, mayonnaise…choose a ‘may’ word or phrase from the list and tell us how it relates to your life in some way right now. Mayonnaise. Don’t think I have ever spelled that before. Or if I have, I had forgotten it has 2 Ns. Mayonnaise as in an ingredient in this chicken salad I made for dinner tonight. Subbed in fat free Greek yogurt for the mayo and it was delicious. And that’s why I didn’t know that mayonnaise is spelled with 2 Ns. I never say mayonnaise. I say mayo. Speaking of mayo, this post goes live on Cinco de Mayo. Not mayonnaise but the Spanish word for May.
Visions of Pancakes Dance in My Head
4. If someone were serving you breakfast in bed this weekend, what would you like to see on the menu? If calories and Weight Watchers points are of no concern, then lots of different types of pancakes! And crepes. And chicken and waffles. Biscuits and gravy. Eggs…just to keep things healthy.
Motherhood
5. Tell me one true thing you believe about motherhood. It is the hardest job you’ll ever love. One that’s not for the feint of heart. And one that you never really retire from.
6. Insert your own random thought here. I often try to shoulder the responsibility and worry for life’s struggles alone without asking for help. Often without even asking God to help me. Last night, I was in tears with worry for my mom. My mind raced as I tried to figure how to resolve issues in Mom’s life. Then it dawned on me to turn my concerns over to God. I prayed for His direction. For Him to wallop me upside the head with some kind of sign as to how to proceed in getting Mom the help she needs. And this morning my prayers were answered. I was walloped. Gently.
Your Turn
What would your responses be to the prompts for Currently 05.2021 or the questions for this week’s hodgepodge? You can play along by leaving them in a comment below. Or linking up your Currently 05.2021 post with Anne in Residence.
Hope your Cinco de Mayo involves something yummy to eat and drink. Off to mix up my enchiladas. Thank you for stopping by.
Abrazos y besos,
I love the new blog design! And I think it is so precious that your granddaughters are artsy like you! So mayonnaise…I was in the school spelling bee in elementary school and that was the word that got me – ha!!!
xo,
Kellyann
Thank you!! Guess what word got my daughter in the spelling bee? Librarian. She just got nervous and forgot the R that almost no one pronounces. She never said ‘libarian’ like so many do. But when she spelled it that way…there was an audible gasp in the audience as they knew Lauren’s mom (me) was a libRarian.
Thank you for sharing!
Thank you!!
Cannot wait for the big reveal on the finished mosaic! You’re so close to the end now. Looks like your baby girls have inherited your artistic gene, that picture is so impressive.
Pleased to hear that you have finally found the person who gets things done at your mum’s home, fingers crossed that she continues to get the care that she needs. I really hope that Camila gets to meet her as planned, it will lift everyone’s spirits.
We leave for Mom’s this weekend. I am exhausted and excited both. Cami doesn’t do well in a ride in the car. Can’t imagine how she will do flying. Should be interesting!!
Wow, your blog looks so ,,relaxed,,! Love that drawing, just up my sleeve!
Thank you so much!! I love to draw.
That’s great that you may take your granddaughter to meet her great grandmother! How sweet. I am glad your prayers were answered!
We leave this weekend for my mom’s. Can’t wait to introduce her to Camila. There will be tears and lots of picture taking!!
I can not wait to see you mosaic all finished! That drawing turned out great and I knew what all the pieces were without your description.
Woo hoo!! I loved doing my mosaic and loved the feeling of finishing it!!
Oh, that’s exciting that your granddaughter may get to meet her great-grandmother. And I’m so sorry that your mom didn’t get the care she needed. That’s so frustrating.
Thank you!! We head for Mom’s this weekend. I think it will be a memorable visit.
I think your mosaic looks great! In high school I used to make glass mosaics all the time (a real crafty phase of my life, ha), and this makes me want to dig up the supplies again. Hope you get to do the birthday trip – celebrating birthdays (well, anything really) at the beach is my ideal.
Look at you creating mosaics!! Wow!! Yes, dig up your supplies once baby is well settled in to the family and make a special piece for your home.
Your mosaic looks great. I can’t wait to see the final result. And your May prompt reminded me that it has been forever since I visited Cape May, NJ.
Hope you get a visit in to Cape May… and come back to visit me again, too!! Enjoyed working on the mosaic and it has given me a great sense of satisfaction finishing it.
So much going on at your place! I am so sorry your mom was being neglected. That’s horrible! My mom who still functions very well and lives on her own is only 10 minutes from me, and I am very thankful for that. I hope she gets to see her great grand babies soon! And I can’t wait to see that finished mosaic1
Michelle
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Oh, I am so thankful that your mom is a mere 10 minutes from you. If my mom was at least in the same city, even state, it would help.
The new blog is pretty.
I wish that I’d kept and framed my kids’ art when they were little. I still have a few pieces, but framing isn’t an option because they’re so worn now.
I think framing children’s art was not a thing when my babies were little. Like you, I have a few things they drew but the edges are so frayed I couldn’t frame them easily unless maybe in a floating frame. Love the idea of a art gallery for children’s art.
Leslie! The blog looks amazing!! I love these little updates that you do. And I’m sorry to have been MIA for so long. Things have been crazy busy but I’m happy to read that things are mostly good with you! xoxo
So glad to have you stop by anytime you can!! You have me calculating whether I have enough yard for chickens. XO
Oh, I sure hope there is a beach – and a birthday trip – in your future! Praying all the details work out!! And what a cutie there:) I know your mom will be excited to meet that sweet face and namesake!! Hope all goes well with that trip, too!!
Yay!! We made reservations for South Padre Island. Won’t be Cancun but there will be water, sand and FAMILY.