Do you have a ritual...

I don't know that Roger and I have a real set ritual when it is just us...we usually get up and Roger turns the coffee on.  Coffee making is his department.  I don't know how or why it turned out that way, but he makes it 99% of the time.  Sometimes we are both hungry and want breakfast right away, other times we want to be up a while.

But the summer ritual that doesn't change is when Lorelei is here.  She gets up and gives us hugs, and maybe pets the cats a minute...maybe not.  Then, she gets her shoes on and we all go see the flowers.  It is like a whole new world every morning.  She sees each flower and checks for insects, and then maybe has to water some of them.  But the part that doesn't change is she wants to go see them.  I don't know what we will do when it is cold outside and no flowers to look at.  I guess we will concentrate on the birds.

Anyway, I figure all of us have something that is a ritual...and some more than others.  What is the one thing you do every morning/day?
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I have to tell one fresh story on her, though there are two or three that are highly entertaining.  Just hard to put them in words.  This one I did not witness, but can sure imagine.

The other day Sarah had been out...I don't know if she had actually been gone or was just outside and came in just in time to hear Jeremy tell Lorelei she better lose the attitude.  (Yes, at four years old she has an attitude sometimes.)  Quick as a wink, Lorelei came over and said, 'Here, Mommy.'  Sarah ask what it was...Lorelei said 'my bad attitude.'  Then she had her mean face on and asked her mommy to give her something...Sarah asked her what she wanted...she said a good attitude...so Sarah pretended to give her something and her face changed instantly to a big smile.

Another year has come and gone...

Another year has come and gone since Roger and I were married...yesterday was our anniversary.   Roger has a bad cold so the celebrating will have to happen later.

Our daughter on the west coast brightened our day by sending us flowers.

Sarah brightened our weekend by letting us have Lorelei....and then she came and spent Sunday afternoon with us.  And they gave us gift cards--for restaurants!  I must say our kids know us well.

You would never guess by looking at these that Lorelei was sick...as long as she had her cough syrup and tylenol in her, she could get to feeling pretty good.

She's happy!

She was thrilled to get her card!

And she's coming again tomorrow.  I told Roger we would be busy this time tomorrow night...well, hopefully, we will be winding down.  I keep watching the weather and now rain is in the forecast for tomorrow evening and for Saturday.

She told me before she left Tuesday that she might stay 4 days or 3 days...but she told her mom that she might stay two 5 days.

You have to understand that the 5 days represents the fingers on one hand.  When she came last weekend, she designated a finger for a day and each day had activities planned.  the first day was designated as the day she gets here, the next finger was for going to the park, and the next was CREEK day....and she said it just light that...you could tell it was a big deal...and the 4th finger was 'staying home and shooting bad guys with Papaw!'  (An Xbox game...she wants Papaw to play, and me to be in here doing something, and she just messes around and plays with her toys.)  Again, a lot of excitement in her voice for just staying home.  And the fifth day was for going home.

It rained so much we did not go to the park or the daylily gardens...I think we will go to the gardens even if it is wet and messy this time...
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 I captured this on the way home Tuesday...between here and Terre Haute.  And I saw two others but there was no place to pull off the road, plus they were too far off.