Mothering Sunday

It's great to be home after a long and eventful day! The kids brought me breakfast in bed, and that was great. However, I couldn't quite eat without wondering who (or how) the dishes would get done considering the fact that the counter tops (sink included) were removed yesterday. Hhhmmm. Sam and Sophy wrote a song for me and presented it to me along with a various assortment of other artwork. Seriously cute.
Jack gave me a little potted flower that he made at school. After the morning festivities, we arrived at church about 10 minutes late. The day was fairly overcast as the morning wore on, but we headed out to the airshow after church anyway. When we got there, we heard that all of the demonstration planes were grounded due to the overcast conditions. We walked around and saw hot rods, jets, planes, helicopters, etc. Jack was on Cloud 9 just viewing those sights.
Pop showed Jack the type of plane that one of his cousins died in during the Ploesti bombing raids in Romania in 1944. (My grandfather's brother lost 2 sons during a 6 month period in 1944. He received their purple hearts on the same day.)
As the afternoon wore on, the weather cleared up a bit and the aerial acts started up, and the show started. The Marine Corps, of course, makes you earn everything. No freebies, so Jack had to do 3 pull-ups, 2 different times, to earn a set of dog tags. One for himself, and one for Sam. Of all the things we saw today, I think Jack enjoyed the WWII reenactment the most--troop drop (skydivers) reenacted the way troops were dropped in Europe, then a P51 (one of Jack's fav planes) did a mock dogfight with a Japanese Zero. Very cool. We were able to see the Canadian Snowbirds and the Blue Angels. I don't care who you are, or if you like planes, it's just an amazing thing to see...so very glad we got to go. And I'm even happier that the air show that I went to so often as a younger person is still the same air show of today. At one point, we anticipated my daddy being thrown in jail for insulting a wagon load full of police officers who were doing crowd security. Oy. Luckily, his joke about their donut eating ways didn't strike a nerve with any of them. Again. Oy.
After the show, we ate bbq chicken and tater salad at my folks'. The kids decorated a chocolate Mother's Day cake and rode their bikes until almost dark. The kids were exhausted, so we put them down a bit early. Luckily, I don't have school tomorrow due to the counters being delivered.
Fingers crossed.