Mother's Day

Yesterday was a beautiful day! Cold and windy but beautiful. My day started at 5:25am, "Oh, give me just a few more minutes!!!" as I pushed the snooze till 6am. I was meeting my mom at Corporate Woods for the Mother's Day 5K (Our 2nd annual). It's KC's only "girls only" 5K! There's all sorts of daughters, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and aunts... I enjoy seeing the different families out there. Then the men come out (coffee in hand) standing on the side lines rooting for his lady.

Yawning, I donned my famous ball cap hair w/ pigtails and set out the door leaving the boys sleeping. Ahead of schedule; I stopped at Starbucks getting my usual Skinny Hazelnut Latte and one for my momma too! We met up and sat in my truck (sipping lattes) as long as we could; staying warm until the event started. We watched all kinds of girls walk by wearing everything from short to scarves & mittens! (example of how strong the wind was – it collapsed the tents were the before & after festivities were usually held, but they moved all that to a shelter house across the way.) Brrr! (Are we sure we still want to do this? A hot breakfast sounds so much better!)

We used the facilities before we had to line up. The port-o-potties are usually a huge highlight. Groups will sponsor a privy and decorate it to their delight. Then they have a panel of judges and one will be picked to when a prize of whatever it is. But it makes using the Johnnys not so bad. The one I used was covered in roses with roses adorned all around in side. While I waited for mom - this man came up and started trying to pry the door open to the one she was using! I told him someone was in there and he said "Well they are all 'red'!" (red meant they were in use) Um, hello!!! Hence the lines of women waiting to use them!!! Must have been too early in the morning for him. I told mom about it and she just thought it was the wind. Goodness, could you imagine if he successfully opened the door and there sat mom! lol!

They lined us up, were lead in some warm up exercises, then the national anthem. The race started on time; 8 am. It wasn't long after walking a while before we were warm again. Along the trail they have "momisms". "If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times" - "I brought you into this world, I can take you out" - "No dessert before dinner" etc. Because of the wind, a lot of them were blown down.

We were just a little past the 1 mile mark when mom's bladder started calling. I waited for her while she went back to relieve herself. We lost a little bit of time but that was ok. (I wanted to beat my time from last year but thought I could keep track on my own watch) Back on track we kept trucking along. We both spotted a black glove someone had lost - we walked past it. Soon after mom started obsessing about "I should have pick it up to turn it in". Luckily, the course wound back close to it. No one else picked it up either so mom hurried over to retrieve it. In the mean time, I'm slowing down waiting on her. And a course volunteer started to encourage me. "You can finish, don't give up..." I told him - "You bet I am going to finish!" He came to me and gave me a hug! (He didn't see mom so I think he thought I was done for). Mom, back on her way over, looked puzzled as to what I was doing. So I had the old man give her a hug too. At this point, I now remember that I forgot to look to see how much time mom took to pee and pick the glove up. Oops, so much for keeping track of my time!

We soon crossed the finish line, was handed our award and headed to the shelter. People were polite to stand in line for 'breakfast'. (Bagels, donuts, cookies, bananas, oranges, yogurt, coffee, pop, etc) I for one didn't have time besides there weren't lines last year. You just crowed your way in. (As how I did it this year.) Plus if I was going to stand in line - it was going to be for a chair massage!

That was time well spent! Ahh, I needed that. I could have set in the massage chair far longer than I did. (They offer these here at work, message to self - need to look back into them) Mom and I visited to Johnnys one last time and made way to our vehicles to say out goodbyes. Poor mom was going home to do laundry and I was off to the Royals game. Of course she did just get a new washer and dryer set - front loaders. So I told her just grab a chair and watch your laundry! ; )

The rest of the day was great! Met our friends, the Medina's, and caught a Royal's game. (Moms got a pink T) Royals scored in the 7th inning so we get an additional treat - A Sheridan's hot fudge sundae. (which Ty can't stand to wait to redeem.) Royals won 4-0! We ended the day with an early dinner at Fuddrucker's.

By the time we got home I was absolutely exhausted! I was in bed and asleep by 9:15 pm.

Tomorrow I'll write up re: the Bulldog's weekend tourney...