My older son and his girlfriend came over at around 10:30 and we went to brunch at a local restaurant after about an hour. This place doesn't usually have brunch and it's a very casual place with great ribs, sandwiches, steaks, fish. My kids grew up going there a lot. The menu was excellent. I had blueberry pancakes and so did Josh. My husband and Ava had banana stuffed french toast, which was really good.
Josh gave me a really useful Burt's Bees "athletic" package, with road rash cream, soap, shampoo, lip balm. Ava made me a bracelet and earrings (she's an artist)
We left them here at the house and went off to ride with our friends, where we did a 21 mile hill ride (Oak Hill). It was really nice out. When we were descending a long hill, my other son called from Iraq, but Steve couldn't safely answer his phone. He had already called me Thursday night to wish me an early happy Mother's Day. I felt bad, but he left a message. When we got back to our friend's house, we started making tentative plans for a cycling trip in the late spring/summer 2009; maybe Sweden or Italy.