It's a Mom Thing-Kerry's Birthday

I have to wake the kid up in a few minutes. We have to get to the airport on time for her to catch her flight back to Notre Dame. Crap!!!! She's leaving again. Just when I get really used to having her around she leaves again. I hate it!

It was a great Thanksgiving/Kerry's birthday visit. I picked her up at the airport last Wednesday and her boyfriend, Frank came over within an hour of her landing. They seem extremely happy together and he is a very nice guy. Pat and I were able to get to know him a little better this trip and we like him very much. I'm all about Kerry's happiness. If she's happy then I am too. It's hard for her to be living so far away from him. He's finishing up his PhD at UF in Florida while she is working on her PhD at Notre Dame in Indiana.

Kerry and Frank

Jon and Cousin Stevie came over for Thanksgiving dinner and we ate way more than we should have. Kerry wanted Frank to meet the family and I think it went well. I made Kerry's holiday favorite Tofurky. Dinner was served early so the kids could pack up and go to Frank's parents house for their second dinner. His parents live about an hour north of us so Kerry and Frank stayed there on Thanksgiving night.

Black Friday came and Kerry and I went shopping. So what else is new? :) I should have known that she was plotting a purchase but I was in my own world and I didn't pick up on it. Unfortunately while we were in the mall Kerry got a really bad migraine but refused to leave the mall. We went out to my car which has very dark tinted windows and she closed her eyes for a while and started to feel better so we went back into the mall. That was when I realized that she was on a mission.

After lots of pouting and making me feel guilty because it was her birthday and I only got her earrings (yep, only) she squeezed me for an Ipad. She said she would split the cost with me but I know I will never see that money. It didn't matter because she was so happy with her new acquisition that nothing else mattered...even the migraine. Amazingly it went away. :)

Frank met us back at the house and they hung out with her old boyfriend and friend Scott who I call Nerdly. LOL. He came by and it was great to see him. Just like the old days. Pat and I hit the sack early because I was whipped and the kids went to see Harry Potter.

Frank left to go back to UF on Sunday morning and Kerry was very upset knowing she would not be seeing him for a while. With tears being shed at the thought of being without Frank she looked up at me all pathetic and said "Do you want to go to the mall?" LOL. Needless to say we went to the mall.

It's amazing how easy it is to fall back into the old patterns. I do realize that she is no longer "a kid" but now I get what my mom was trying to tell me when I was Kerry's age. She used to say " You can't just stop. It's the "Mom thing". Now I understand what she was trying to tell me because now it's my "Mom thing".