So many on my flist are moms...but special wishes go out to emmagrant01 upon her celebration of her very first Mother's Day! ***HUGS***

I, myself, am quite stuffed. Four scrambled eggs by Karl, twelve pieces of Canadian bacon by Jayne, Cheerios, milk, coffee by Katie. No, I couldn't finish it; Roy did, though. :D Got to see the bookmark Jayne made for me (I helped with those for the rest of her classmates; they hid mine very well so I wouldn't see it!) and Katie had made me a MOM card in class - open it and it says WOW MOM. Too cute. Karl's teacher doesn't do stuff for Mother's Day - it's always up to the teacher. I'll forgive her, because she loves DMB, too. *G*

We're off to either the zoo or OMSI to see an Imax show featuring DMB music. Depends on the weather this afternoon - MIL will confirm which one after church. And I got a phone call at 9am from a Barack Obama campaigner, which amused me because I cut her off at the pass: "He's my man! Does that help you?" I didn't think until after we'd hung up to ask her how the heck to get stickers/signs, because I'm having a hard time finding items - they're always sold out! Maybe I need to make my own and stick it in my van window.

Had dinner at Olive Garden last night for my friend's daughter's 14th birthday, which is actually today. She'd had five friends staying over the night before and her mom and stepdad were pretty bleary, lol. One of the friends was my niece - as my sister likes to say, "They potty trained together." It's true! I helped, even, when I watched them for a short while after Katie was born.

Hey, it's my grandparents' 61st wedding anniversary today, too. May 11 is a big deal this year.

I haven't gotten my mother a card yet. I meant to last night when we went to the bookstore so Katie could spend the gift card she'd received from Take your Kid to Work day. I ended up buying Karl a Star Wars book (all three written stories of the prequels scripts; he wants the other one, too - hey, if it gets him reading, I'll buy it) and Jayne a crafty thing and a fairy book, helped Katie with the few dollars her purchases went over her gift card, and a mini LED book light for me. Spaced the card completely.

*yawn* I think I'll crawl back in bed awhile.

After my breakfast in bed, I was merrily chatting with enednoviel when Roy tells me when we're expected at his parents' house. Forty-five minutes, neither of us had showered yet. Good thing the IL's are in town with us now, lol. In the end, after two phone calls, we got there just before noon and headed out to OMSI, whereupon Laura had a rather fantastic day.

OMSI is our Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, and houses an IMAX theater. Our plan was to see Grand Canyon Adventure, with music by THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND. Already a squeeful thing. Narrated by Robert Redford, who ain't hard on the ears, yanno? Thoroughly enjoyed that; film was not quite an hour long. Whoever the fella was above my seat at one point was consistently tap-tap-tapping the back of my seat with his toe - I just reached up and put my hand on his shin - that got his attention. I wasn't tapped again, lol!

DMB! YAY! I was singing along when there were lyrics, lol.

We stopped at the cafeteria and had a very light lunch - pasta salad and chips that Roy and I shared, while the kids had melons cubes and chips, too.

Then off to see the dinosaurs from China exhibit - some real fossils, some replications, all fascinating. Karl really enjoyed the fossils in rocks, and we're making tentative plans to go over to the John Day Fossil Beds in Central Oregon this summer.

Oh! It's time for our Planetarium show! Black Holes, oooooo! Get in, settled, and the narrator begins. ROY recognizes him before I do, shamefully, but I plead accent adjustment. Mr. Neeson used Qui-Gon accent! But sure enough, it was him. Dave Matthews AND Liam Neeson in one day? Laura's in HEAVENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN....

Then on to the rest of the dinosaurs and science exhibits. I find the reproduction exhibit and Karl and I have a discussion of procreation, sexual organs, and sex. He's a cool kid when it comes to that. I told him that maybe he'd already felt this way, but if not yet, to know that his penis would get hard. He admits to me that that's already happened, so he knows what that feels like. I explain the rest of the basic science of it - penis goes in woman here, here's the egg, he's got the sperm, voila, baby. Very matter of fact and without getting into too terribly much detail. Roy and I are in agreement - be candid now and hopefully they'll be candid later. I didn't think it was quite the place to discuss the "feels really good" part of sex, so we'll cover that later.

Finally, we close down the museum and head for dinner - oh, yeah, it's Mother's Day. Popular restaurants are packed. We finally end up back in our own town at the Sunset Grill (which always sends Roy and I into bad imitations of Don Henley), which we enjoy. And finally, home.

I've had a low-grade headache all day, but it was survivable. Called my grandparents briefly while waiting for the slower walkers of MIL, SIL and Spouse at the car. It's their 61st anniversary, as well as Mother's Day, so it was a happy pleasant call.

I'm tired! Hope today was a good day for everyone.

Chasing Cars tipped over 30K views today. If I had a dollar for every view.... *LOL*