Mother's Day

A week after my mother's brief, but somewhat traumatic stay at the hospital, was Mother's Day weekend. Emily still came home at the beginning of the weekend. The last day to get our online home inspection done was that Saturday. You have to do it using some third party app on your phone, so we told Emily to do it for us. She had trouble getting the app to work on Christian's older phone so we had to do it again on mine. It still didn't work, but this time it was saying that our link was expired, which isn't true. The paperwork clearly said that we had until that day to do it. She had to call them to get them to fix it manually for us, giving them information on our home that we were told that we shouldn't give them because now this third party company has our address and video footage of the inside and outside of our home! Anyway, the whole thing was a nightmare and a half. 

While Emily was still mucking around with the phone trying to get it to work, Christian was exhausted and went in to get a nap. When we were finally done, we decided to go out. One of the questions on the inspection was to ask if we had live stock. We didn't, but the chickens that Emily wanted came back to mind. We decided to go to the feed store to look at the chicks again. We found a nice little feed store that had all kinds of chicks. I decided to just get the chicks for Emily for all her help. They would let us get only two chicks but they recommended an extra one in case something happened to one of them. They are very social birds and one typically does not survive very well without a friend, so in the end, we ended up with three chicks!

They are so cute and surprisingly cuddly. We didn't have a coop for them yet, so they are basically in a box at this point. 

The next day was Mother's Day and my sister planned a "high tea" for her. Emily made little cucumber sandwiches. I made scones, clotted cream and shortbread cookies.

My sister made salmon finger sandwiches and had fresh fruit. Christopher made us a matcha latte. Jared had made some dumplings with my mom and they had some leftover stuffing, so after lunch, she set us back up to work on making the rest.

We actually brought the chicks with us, since they are small and portable right now. Everyone got to play with them.

My mom is mostly feeling better but she still seems to have a low grade constant headache. They had adjusted her medication and it helps but doesn't really solve the problem, so we will see. She doesn't want to bother with any extreme measures that might fix the problem because of her age. There is a lot of risk in all of the possibilities anyway so everyone is keeping an eye on her for now. She still doesn't have a lot of energy but I think it is better than before and she has more of an appetite and is eating normally again...well, at least what is normal for her.

We took the opportunity to do some group pictures with my mom while so many of us are in town. We are only missing Caitlyn and Collin. Caitlyn, of course is still up at school finishing her last semester and Collin skipped out on us to study for his finals or something...but it didn't stop him from getting together with his cousins for Korean BBQ on Friday night! Caitlyn didn't want to be left out so she drew herself into the group photo. Wendy wanted us to photoshop them in but I liked Caitlyn's version so much,  I added Collin in as well!