Happy Mother's Day! I sure hope you're enjoying a beautiful day celebrating with your mom, calling your mom, remembering your mom or whoever might have filled that special role in your life. I know I've been blessed by mine.
Now, when I was growing up, my mom's favorite thing to do for Mother's Day was hang out with her kids. She's a pretty fun person and usually picked something awesome to do. She's like that... kind of hobbity in that she, like Tolkien's hobbits, like to have everybody have fun and feel loved on her day.
I'm a teensy weensy bit more selfish myself. I do love hanging out with my kids, especially on Mother's Day. In fact, I have some crafting with the kids and a lovely, tickle-y dog pile scheduled for sometime after the kids wake up from their nap.
There is nothing like being at the bottom of a squirmy, lovely, tickle-y, four-kid, one mom dog pile for remembering you're totally blessed. There are lots of ways to feel blessed, but it's easily one of the best.
However, I also will greedily snatch up and enjoy some well-needed grown-up time for regathering whatever tiny scraps of sanity I have left whenever I can, especially since they're rare as hen's teeth -- both the grown-up time and the scraps of sanity. So since my kids were elsewhere engaged on Saturday, my mom and I got to hang out and do grown-up stuff all day. It went beautifully. We didn't even have a real plan, but it just developed into one of the best mother-daughter days ever.
First order of business: Visit local awesome coffee shop and get french press to share of darkest french roast imaginable. This was a tiny bit of a mess-up since french press was not nearly as tasty as our usual pour-over choice where the hot water is slowly and deliciously seeping through ground coffee. But it was still good. My mom and I got to browse The Wall Street Journal at a leisurely place, which was very relaxing, though we ended up talking most of the time. See my section? I don't go for the shallow and silly world news or business reports. It's all book, food, and art reviews for me. It's the weekend. That's how I roll.
This is my mom talking about IPOs. I'm serious. Once again, I have to question our related-ness. What you can't see is me with my huh? okay... face. She couldn't either I hope. I was hiding behind my camera phone. She's got a math-y brain like I think Rose does.
I hope they're very happy together.
We did eventually get around to talking about concepts I more readily grasp, which I was thankful for.
Notice anything weird in this one? She looks almost the same. Look at the first picture and then look at this one. People always ask if we're sisters... actually, twins lately. At this rate, I'll look older than her in a decade.
Then we browsed the farmer's market, which I intend to do a post on in the next few weeks. We visited our favorite honey guys, produce guys, and cheese guys (Ooh, I love the cheese guys. For one thing I love good cheese. But for another, I'm pretty sure they know I've already tried every cheese, but they always let me try everything again. And I'm only too happy to.) Unfortunately, we forgot to visit our flower guy. Sorry, flower guy. But we've resolved to grab twice our usual flower bunches next week to make up for it.
Then being famished, we headed over to our local French-inspired cafe-bistro-bakery for lunch. I'd have taken a picture of eating there, but I was so hungry, my food disappeared rather rapidly, and I don't think you need a picture of my piggy face inhaling a sandwich and a piece of cake. I'm sure it wasn't pretty.
Really hoping my possible future husband wasn't sitting anywhere nearby. Pretty sure he's scared away now if he was.
Oh, well. Who needs him anyway...
Pedicures! I'll let you guess who's who. Sorry for the weird, grainy picture. It looks like someone just left some feet lying around.
This was the delicious sangria we made out of some terrible wine. It's really good now, all lemony and limey and orangey and refreshing. We sat out on the lanai talking about all the projects we wanted to take on in the near future.
These are the rosemary gin and tonics we made a little later. Oh, my goodness. Soooooo good! Please try these. Just muddle a a sprig of rosemary with some gin at the bottom of your glass, fill with ice and tonic water and enjoy. Lemon wedge optional, but much more complementary than lime I think.
We couldn't possibly pass up the opportunity to visit the craft store. Can't wait to use these new supplies! There are actually parts of about five projects here.
You may notice that I'm wildly delusional about the amount of crafting time I have. Feel free to keep it to yourself. I'm enjoying the delusion.
Once reunited with my beautiful monsters, I found that they, too, had been busy in a craft-minded kind of way. I now have two new jewelry boxes and two new frames! I love the use of color. And Lily and Ivy actually created art for the frames. So cool!
Sunday, of course, is church and hanging out with the kiddos. Best Mother's Day yet and they keep getting better. I hope yours is going just as well, and that you're feeling very blessed today.
Have a great weekend!
This is my mom back in the day shortly after I was born. Such a sweet picture, I think. Brand new mom. Now, I'm going to point out something weird that kind of makes me wonder. Ummm... was I kidnapped? Because she does not look like a woman who's recently given birth. Very Twilight Zone if you ask me or maybe America's Most Wanted. Who looks like that bringing a newborn home? Seriously. Did I look like that after having my first child? Uhhh, no.
True story: Upon visiting Rose in the NICU about a week after she was born, I was in an elevator with a lovely older woman and her granddaughter. The little girl must have pointed at me, because her grandmother explained lovingly, "She's going in to have a baby."
Sigh.
Genetics, ya done me wrong on this one.
Now, when I was growing up, my mom's favorite thing to do for Mother's Day was hang out with her kids. She's a pretty fun person and usually picked something awesome to do. She's like that... kind of hobbity in that she, like Tolkien's hobbits, like to have everybody have fun and feel loved on her day.
I'm a teensy weensy bit more selfish myself. I do love hanging out with my kids, especially on Mother's Day. In fact, I have some crafting with the kids and a lovely, tickle-y dog pile scheduled for sometime after the kids wake up from their nap.
There is nothing like being at the bottom of a squirmy, lovely, tickle-y, four-kid, one mom dog pile for remembering you're totally blessed. There are lots of ways to feel blessed, but it's easily one of the best.
However, I also will greedily snatch up and enjoy some well-needed grown-up time for regathering whatever tiny scraps of sanity I have left whenever I can, especially since they're rare as hen's teeth -- both the grown-up time and the scraps of sanity. So since my kids were elsewhere engaged on Saturday, my mom and I got to hang out and do grown-up stuff all day. It went beautifully. We didn't even have a real plan, but it just developed into one of the best mother-daughter days ever.
First order of business: Visit local awesome coffee shop and get french press to share of darkest french roast imaginable. This was a tiny bit of a mess-up since french press was not nearly as tasty as our usual pour-over choice where the hot water is slowly and deliciously seeping through ground coffee. But it was still good. My mom and I got to browse The Wall Street Journal at a leisurely place, which was very relaxing, though we ended up talking most of the time. See my section? I don't go for the shallow and silly world news or business reports. It's all book, food, and art reviews for me. It's the weekend. That's how I roll.
This is my mom talking about IPOs. I'm serious. Once again, I have to question our related-ness. What you can't see is me with my huh? okay... face. She couldn't either I hope. I was hiding behind my camera phone. She's got a math-y brain like I think Rose does. I hope they're very happy together.
We did eventually get around to talking about concepts I more readily grasp, which I was thankful for.
Notice anything weird in this one? She looks almost the same. Look at the first picture and then look at this one. People always ask if we're sisters... actually, twins lately. At this rate, I'll look older than her in a decade.
Then we browsed the farmer's market, which I intend to do a post on in the next few weeks. We visited our favorite honey guys, produce guys, and cheese guys (Ooh, I love the cheese guys. For one thing I love good cheese. But for another, I'm pretty sure they know I've already tried every cheese, but they always let me try everything again. And I'm only too happy to.) Unfortunately, we forgot to visit our flower guy. Sorry, flower guy. But we've resolved to grab twice our usual flower bunches next week to make up for it.
Then being famished, we headed over to our local French-inspired cafe-bistro-bakery for lunch. I'd have taken a picture of eating there, but I was so hungry, my food disappeared rather rapidly, and I don't think you need a picture of my piggy face inhaling a sandwich and a piece of cake. I'm sure it wasn't pretty.
Really hoping my possible future husband wasn't sitting anywhere nearby. Pretty sure he's scared away now if he was.
Oh, well. Who needs him anyway...
Pedicures! I'll let you guess who's who. Sorry for the weird, grainy picture. It looks like someone just left some feet lying around.
This was the delicious sangria we made out of some terrible wine. It's really good now, all lemony and limey and orangey and refreshing. We sat out on the lanai talking about all the projects we wanted to take on in the near future.
These are the rosemary gin and tonics we made a little later. Oh, my goodness. Soooooo good! Please try these. Just muddle a a sprig of rosemary with some gin at the bottom of your glass, fill with ice and tonic water and enjoy. Lemon wedge optional, but much more complementary than lime I think.
We couldn't possibly pass up the opportunity to visit the craft store. Can't wait to use these new supplies! There are actually parts of about five projects here.
You may notice that I'm wildly delusional about the amount of crafting time I have. Feel free to keep it to yourself. I'm enjoying the delusion.
Once reunited with my beautiful monsters, I found that they, too, had been busy in a craft-minded kind of way. I now have two new jewelry boxes and two new frames! I love the use of color. And Lily and Ivy actually created art for the frames. So cool!
Sunday, of course, is church and hanging out with the kiddos. Best Mother's Day yet and they keep getting better. I hope yours is going just as well, and that you're feeling very blessed today.
Have a great weekend!
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