Mother's Day

This was the BEST Mother's Day EVER. In the previous years...

2005: I picked up Burger King while Hubby supervised our carpet removal. We advertised our our first floor carpet FREE to any takers online from our three year old house, but it had to be removed by the recipients. A family came and took several hours carefully cutting our carpet and carpet pad in the dimensions of the rooms in their home with an exacto knife. Mother's Day came and went.

2006: Hubby was not in Hawaii. Our church had an enormous Mother's Day brunch outside. On the spur of the moment, a friend invited Son1 and me to a Mother's Day dinner with her family. I was so grateful not to be alone!

2007: I spent the day nursing a newborn , exhausted. I don't remember Mother's Day.

Which brings me to 2008!!!!

The night before, Hubby offered to get up with the kids on Mother's Day. I made out on the deal, for sure! Ohhh those little guys peeped their eyes open at 5:30AM. That's because I put them to bed so early the night before, but that is an entirely different blog post for later.

I slept awhile longer. My eyes popped open, and I stretched and savored my bed another few minutes, drinking in the quiet of my bedroom. This is a huge treat because Hubby leaves at 5:30 every morning. Extra minutes in bed don't usually happen for me. I headed downstairs, and Son1 ran toward me with his Mother's Day gift. He had been so patient waiting for Mother's Day. He wanted me to open his gift since Friday, when he brought it home from preschool, but I insisted he wait until Mother's Day. Secretly, I have waited three years for my first homemade Mother's Day gift, with great anticipation! The card read, "My love for you grows and grows." The folded card grew into a long stemmed flower. The teacher mounted a picture into a plastic picture frame . In case you can't tell, it's a post it note holder.I loved the box; it was so Hawaii. It was a recycled sushi container.A cookbook was slid under the pink ribbon, composed of the kids' favorite food mom cooks. This is a picture of him with a recipe for pasta below: "She puts it in a pot and cooks it really fast."Then came the gift from Hubby. He took Son1 to pick out my gift. Here is why I love it:

Since missing a member of our family, our floors aren't as clean as often. But my new third child cleans without falsely advertising he is free to good home. (You know who cost me BIG BUCKS.) This one does not bark, poop, or chew. He will not throw a fit if he is contained in a separate room when company comes. All that and he does his job!

While we were unpacking him, Son1 grabbed a filter, stood it on my head, and exclaimed, "YOU'RE THE QUEEN, MOMMY! HERE IS YOUR CROWN!" That melted me!
We went to church, and afterward, all of the ladies in the church, mothers or not, were served lunch by the men. Son1 ran toward me with a decorated Chinese take-out box. I laughed to myself....so Hawaii. Inside was a cupcake he decorated, just like Rachel's!! He is either a cupcake decorating prodigy, or someone helped steady his three year old hands!Finally, Hubby cooked a celebratory meal. My kids melt my heart, and my husband romances it!