I Love Mom!

I missed posting a Mother's Day message on Mother's Day, but I wanted to say that I am lucky to have the BEST MOM in the whole world!!! Mom and I have so many good times together. I've almost lost track of how many times we've driven across the country together. Thank you for all of the fun adventures, Mom! I am especially excited for Mom's visit one week from tomorrow! It will be so wonderful to have her here. I am also very lucky to have the most wonderful grandmas! And, both of my sisters are wonderful moms as well!

It has been a busy week back at work. The school kids just keep on coming--they never stop, and they even seem to multiply in numbers. I'm always happy when I get to lead a regular public tour instead of a school group tour. The big difference is that people on the public tour want to be there, while the school kids have to be there. There have been some cute little kids on the public tours lately. The other day when I was in Abraham Lincoln's bedroom with one group, I saw something moving out of the corner of my eye. It turned out to be a binky which one of the babies had thrown onto Mr. Lincoln's bed :-) It was really funny. Then later that same day I found a mysterious blue plastic hippo on the floor in the Lincolns' bedroom. The babies must get pretty bored by that point of the tour.

We have started something new at the park called "Lot Talks." Every hour during the day, one of the rangers is stationed at a house or vacant lot in the neighborhood, and we do a special presentation about the Lincolns' neighbors. I was skeptical when they first proposed the idea, but it has turned out to be a lot of fun, and the visitors seem to really enjoy it. Speaking of the neighborhood, the cell phone tour is progressing splendidly! I finished the script, it has been approved, and now the Presidential Museum is going to help us get it recorded. They are also going to produce the signs that will be placed along the street at the different tour stops. I am very excited to see the completed product--hopefully sometime in June.

Yesterday my friend Angie from school came to the Lincoln Home! She and her family were in town for our EIU graduation on Saturday, so while they were in the state they came up to Springfield. It was great to see her, and I am very sad that I wasn't able to go to graduation. There was just no way Greg and I could have made it. We're both feeling a little bit better now, but we really needed some rest over the weekend. We actually still need more rest, but that is hard to come by during the week. Tomorrow we're supposed to have really bad, scary weather here. I think it would be kind of exciting if the tornado sirens went off while I was at work, but actually not really. It's never a good sign when the hours from 3:00 p.m. until midnight are all outlined in red on weather.com. I'll let you know if anything exciting happens tomorrow.