That's great! Those flowers look gorgeous. Your boys must be very good getting you such a cool presie. It's always great to treat one's parents well and especially one's mum.


My little story, possibly more on the funny rather the moving side... Back in the days in Ireland, one of those days the week before Mother's Day, everyone was talking about what they were planning for their mums and reminding each other of the tradition. At the place where I was working at the time, I remember asking the new intern from Germany about Mother's Day. He told me that he'll be sending his mum a nice card. Fair enough good lad, I thought -- at a long bygone time when international calls were rather expensive and not as frequent.

A few days after Mother's Day, he mentioned that his mum had call him on the phone and was concerned about his well-being after having received his card. Puzzled, I asked him what did you write on the card. Just the usual stuff, he replied, but it was not the content that had disconcerted his mum, but the fact that she had received this card when there was actually no Mother's Day. They apparently celebrate the day at a completely different time of the year.

In the end his mum, was quite relieved that her son hadn't lost the plot or whatnot. She actually really liked the card, as this gesture of sending these types for greeting cards was not common over there.

The only woman who will ever love you, my mam.

Nine is a great age, my youngest turned nine not long ago. I am his best friend as with me he gets away with more than he gets away with his father. Bought him a quad copter drone thing, it's quite a sophisticated piece of machinery and you need a license to fly them here and there are restrictions on where you can fly them. FedEx is apparently using these things to deliver small packages in The USA.

Eldest has one similar he built from scratch, has laser pointers, camera and a claw which picks things up. The first flight of his rogue drone ended up smashing the back windscreen of his father's car and he of course blamed his brother. I've kidnapped it as it's really fun to fly ( you can program a flight path with co ordinates and operate it from the mobile phone) I'm a big kid at heart. I want one for my bday so we can have drone wars I told my boys 555.

I am getting a leaf blower, years ago my dad bought my mum a lawnmower.