Mobile Mama

Time for a Mom update: She's doing great and, when I was dodging the scorpions and navigating hiking trails during the long holiday weekend, Mom ventured out for her first public outings since before her hospital stay. She went shopping with Jen & Amanda and found, among other treasures, a couple of new quilting magazines and clothes to wear to baby and wedding events (showers, etc.) in the next month or two.

She has a wheelchair that we can use when she's out and about, and she occasionally sits in it at home (as she is in this picture) because it helps her with her posture and is, in some ways, more comfortable to her than even the cushiest furniture in their house. When I saw her Sunday afternoon, she was dashing around the house without a cane and came outside for a brief period to sit on the front step and watch Kurtis run around the front yard with Toby, their new toy poodle (photo of the two-pound cutie to come soon).

Mom told goofy jokes during dinner and told Kurtis that she must be feeling better because she was putting up with his crap. She looks and acts more like her old self every day.