Free therapy

I know I'm 31 years old, but that doesn't mean that I don't feel like I need my mom every once in awhile. I made a Facebook status recently that stated, "I need my mommy!" And with the exception of one person who thought I was strange, or rather that she was strange because she never feels that way, my friends seemed to understand. Because really, no matter how old you are, if you had a good mom then you just feel like you need her sometimes. And after all that's gone on recently with our house I have really NEEDED my mom.

Last night she flew into Denver. And if you're either in the Colorado area or are a total weather nerd (F.Y.I. I'm both) then you know that Denver was probably one of the worst places to fly into last night. The massive quantity of snow that fell both there and down here (I'm a ways south of there) was pretty impressive, especially for it only being October.

So anyway, I couldn't pick her up. I felt bad, but it just wasn't safe. So my mom, the woman who I've needed so badly, was stuck taking a shuttle to a hotel to spend the night. Sigh...

But things cleared up late, late, late last night and the sun was out and shining bright this morning, melting the snow away. Sure, it was still wet and there was plenty of the nearly foot and a half of snow that we got. But it was melting and that was joyous!

So into the car we went, the girls and I. We drove to Pueblo, shocked at how little they got (like...NONE!) and on to Colorado Springs, again shocked and the mere dusting they received. Then we got a little north of there and HOLY COW! There was so much! It was also melting, a bit. But the sun was hiding behind the gray clouds and the traffic was BAD and people were driving like idiots! I saw accidents and let me say...they were NOT pretty! So white knuckled I became and we drove on.

Seeing my mom walk out of that hotel was awesome! It was like a huge wave of relief poured over me. We headed back down south, through the traffic full of foolish drivers (hey Mr. Honda driver who cut me off...you're a friggin' moron!) and into the nearly snow free Colorado Springs. We stopped for lunch and a little retail therapy. No, I didn't make the stores use their barcode scanners much, but my mom did. After all, here she was with her only 2 grandchildren. The spoiling had to be done.

And then we were off to home. It was great, like free therapy, seeing my mom. She's here until Sunday and then she's off...but she's off with ME! My husband will stay home with the kids while I take a quick 2 day trip to Utah to visit my ailing grandparents. Oh yes, this will be more free therapy.