May is my month!

Mother’s Day has been now a couple of weeks ago and now that the flowers were all planted and hopefully didn’t freeze too bad last week, it’s time for Mom to enjoy her other part of her gift. 

The gift is a ‘Mom’ book that has the upcoming months until the end of the year and with each month each of us kids book a month. Now what am I talking about? Well we’ve done this before and it’s a cool thing to do. To try to explain it better, May is my month to do a road trip, dinner, just about anything that you would want to do. So what did we do? Check it out! 

We started around 10:00 on Saturday and headed North to Decorah to our first stop at Seed Savers. If you’ve never heard of Seed Savers out of Decorah Iowa you really need to check it out! What they do there is to preserve heirloom seeds for future generations. Now until I actually started to read up on this, I thought well there are a lot of people who sell seeds. But these people go to extreme lengths to ensure that the seed that you are buying is  truly that seed and is not mixed with anything else. 

So like I said we headed North to find the place and I realized that I took the long way there. But the scenery was beautiful and how can you go wrong on such a great day like today?

We finally got the business and after we checked it out it was time to keep moving and see what was up next. And if you live around Decorah you probably know that there is a winery almost right next door. SCORE!

Now I could hear my stomach growling and I’m sure Ma could hear it too, so we went back into town and headed down the gravel road to McCaffery’s Dolce Vita & Twin Springs Bakery. It’s a great place to eat and if you like pizza from a stone oven – it can’t be beat!

While we were having dinner, we were talking about a cousin of mine that lives in town, so a quick call to her and after dinner we went to her house for a nice visit and to see all her projects that she’s been working on.

And you can’t hardly be in Decorah without stopping at Walmart now can you? I didn’t know what Ma needed there, but I found out that she wanted MORE flowers to plant. I’m not sure where these are going but I guess she has a spot picked out for them.

While we were in a shopping mode, we then headed uptown to check into what some of the local stores had for sales. We had pretty good luck if I say so myself, and with our bags in our hands we decided that we should start back home.

But first we wanted to check out a country locker that we weren’t sure where it was. So off to the gravel roads we go and when we found it – it was closed 🙁

At the end of the day, and all of Ma’s new flowers were brought up to the house along with her shopping bags, it was a full and really fun day! 

Next month will be one of my brother’s turn and it’ll be fun to see what they end up doing for June’s Special day with Ma!