Mother's Day

This was the first mother's day as a mom of two. Ethan cooked the breakfast I requested - buttermilk biscuits, lean pockets and strawberries with Godiva chocolate coffee. Being a mom, I planned this and bought the ingredients the day before and put in my cooking request. I figured it was an easy meal to make and make everyone happy. We went to a playground in the morning and looking for another single light weight stroller. Unsuccessful with the stroller, but Sophia had fun climbing the rock wall all by herself in the playground. I hit Home Depot and spent a bunch of my birthday money on plants (see www.cindycindyland.blogspot.com ). Who would have thought I would WANT to spend b-day money at home depot?!



After lunch I dug in the dirt (not a good idea for my knee, but there were plants to be planted!) Made a new flower bed on the East side of the house and planted more flowers in the front. After the naps I took the kids on a short walk with the jogger, came home and made an easy dinner of chicken nuggets, baked potato and corn on the cob. After dinner we went to Houghton's Pond playground and were accosted by a bunch of kids (around 10?) They were all wanting to play with the kids. Started with Dylan. They kept wanting to play with him - asked a million times to take him down the slide (ok, I don't think I am being over protective by saying no as one of the kids couldn't even land on his feet WITHOUT Dylan on his lap. Another girl kept asking, even asked if I could put him down the slide and she would "catch" him at the bottom. She was also so eager that she practically took him from my fingers to have him walk holding onto her. I like that the kids were interested in our kids, but they were very aggressive and persistent in trying to take them away from us to play with them. Kind of ruined the fun of it for us.

So that was mother's day. Here is a mother's day photo- guess we should have tried at the BEGINNING of the day rather than the end. Best "still" shot we could get.