My Perfect Mother's Day!
My dream mother's day has me being able to sleep until at least 8am. And today, that was me - sleeping soundly in my kingsize bed to the sounds of silence until a bit past 8. Bonus: At 2:00am when she woke up needing to go potty, she called out for "Daddy" instead of "Mommy". The week of conditioning had worked :-) I have vague memories of Tim waking up, and no screaming ensuing so I assume the potty trip was successful. I was only slightly concious at 6:45am when the calls of "Good Morning!" rang through the baby monitor. I quickly resumed my slumber after Tim woke up, turned off the monitor, and went in to great the day with our little bright eyed bushy tailed munchkin. I slept blissfully until just after 8 when I was awakened by the sounds of someone desperately, but quietly, trying to open the door by herself. I remember her calling for help and then the next thing I knew, I was being gently (really!) awakened by my sweet little angel, smile on her face and two envelopes and a picture in her hand. A beautiful picture she had coloured herself, and two cards that she had helped decorate. (One had wax paper cleverly inserted inside to allow for the glitter glue to dry without sticking the pages together. Score a major arts and crafts point for Dad on that one!).
My perfect mother's day involves waking to aromas and sounds of bacon and eggs sizzling on the stove. And that's just what happened this morning. Bonus: Pancakes and warm maple syrup in addition to "spangled" (Bobbin's word for Scrambled) eggs and bacon. There was even cold orange juice to accompany the feast. AND... no dishes for me to clean up :-)
My perfect mother's day includes a nap at some point and I ended getting a nap shortly after breakfast when Bobbin decided to play "quiet time". See previous blog post. How cool is that?! I was thrilled :-)
My perfect mother's day has everyone using their polite voices and not having to remind about manners or admonish for tone of voice. And my mother's day was just that. Even while we were deep into glitter glue, scissors, scrap paper, and crayons during our rainy-day morning arts-and-crafts. It was absolutely amazing. And relaxing. And sooooo enjoyable. Thank you :-) Bonus: Bobbin even offered on her own to help clean up after we had finished our projects. Got out her little broom and everything. I went crazy and vacuumed, despite Tim's admonishment with questions of "What are you doing? Hello?" as he attempted to stare me down over the patch of carpet he was standing on that I desperately wanted to clean. It was totally sweet :-)
I was so rested from my playtime nap that when she went down for her real "quiet time" I found myself having ample energy and time to surf the internet, organize and upload photos, and just do stuff I generally don't have time for.
My perfect mother's day includes my favourite food for dinner. Tonight it was lasagna - my all time favourite. I actually felt so relaxed and full of time that I felt like cooking it myself! Bobbin and Tim helped - Bobbin was in charge of the ricotta and mozzerella. Tim got it all on video so expect some uploads soon. It was fabulous. I had two pieces and ate the mozzerella coated top off of a 3rd. Hey... it's Mother's day.
My perfect mother's day ends with me working out on my elliptical, burning 1000 calories. I'm way too lit from the 3 glasses of the fabulous red wine that we had with dinner to work out. It could be hazardous. Of course, I still sit here typing. Also potentially hazardous. However it is the lesser of the two evils. And as I said before, Hey... it's Mother's day.
Thank you Tim and Bobbin for the Mother's Day of my dreams. I love you both with all my heart :-)
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