Life as a Mother is Adventurous!

  I have been blessed with the Mother's Day gifts from my kids.  My oldest son and his lovely wife a got a subscription to a delightful magazine for me.  It is full of pictures and articles about antiques.  The magazine has information on shops, collectibles and even recipes from days past!  While this is all interesting, my favorite thing about the magazine is the fact that each picture shows organized collections.  I need this.  I want this.  I have stuff...stuff that is stuffed....stuff that is stuffed in any nook and cranny and not organized in neat collections. With the inspiration of the magazine, I shall now have collections!  I, hopefully, will remain inspired long enough to get the Little Bayou House in some semblance of order.  My collections shall be properly displayed!  Maybe...hopefully.  

  Then there comes the gift from my daughter and son-in-law.  Since Darling Daughter usually chooses the gift for me, I receive some rather unorthodox gifts.  This is fine by me as I find quirky things fit me to a T. The gift from these two?....oh, she chose a zoetrope!  Yep, I am the proud owner of a zoetrope!  A lot of folks have no idea just what this contraption is but I have to admit, I am tickled pink with it.  Just so you will know, a zoetrope is a nineteenth century toy that has a cylinder containing a strip drawn with a series of figures.  When the cylinder spins, the figures appear animated if you peer through a slot in the cylinder.  The zoetrope is sort of a pre-film animation system.  So, I can now have endless hours of fun watching a little guy riding a unicycle or a bird flapping its wings!  

  My youngest son has decided that once all the hubbub of the holiday dies down, he will treat me to the traditional "Mother's Day Pizza" that he always gets for me.  This tradition is a grand one as usually the pizza is ordered when I am just too tired to cook.  He figures that a meal is something that is useful and, therefore, will be appreciated.  It is....and did I mention?  I will not have to cook!

  This evening as I sat with magazine in hand and the zoetrope on the desk next to me, I had to giggle a bit.  That magazine came just in the nick of time!  I will now know just how to display my zoetrope and all of the other quirky items all while eating pizza!   I love my kids!  I hope each mother out there had an equally adventurous Mother's Day!