over the moon

Happy Mothers Day! This am I woke up to my usual mothers day of breakfast in bed along with a smothering of little butterfly kisses from my little one. I received the most beautiful homemade card that explained why "my mom is the best" and in it my son had placed a $1.00 of his hard earned money he had made picking up all the pine cones last weekend, so that I might indulge in one of my favorite things, Dunkin Donuts coffee. Little did he know that the biggest joy it brought was watching his little face when we went to get the coffee later that morning. He had the most joyous excitement that he was buying his mom a coffee . I could hardly hold back the tears as he paid the woman behind the counter who also reportedly was holding back the tears. "How is it?" he asked anxious for me to answer I told him the truth- it was the "best cup of coffee I ever had".
Later that morning I got another surprise- I found out my younger sister is pregnant with her first child. Learning this was amazing and my own mothers reaction UNFORGETTABLE!!! But now I know why, not because she wants to be a grandmother, but because she wants for my sister to experience those moments much like I did this morning. She wants my sister to experience the joy of being a mother.
Happy mothers Day and Congratulations Liz and Steve!

Better luck next year

Spent time this am at the local fishing Derby for kids 16 and under. Alex caught a fish, yellow perch, but it came in at just under 8 inches and had to be thrown back in. You can barely see it in the picture of it being measured. Despite not placing he had a blast and in his own words "it was good to at least get out and practice for when the bigger fish comes along." I love how a child's mind puts it all together and he is right "the bigger one will come along someday".

birthday weekend

Loving my birthday cake this year, my one request for year number 35, just a plain old peanut butter cup, ah...........yum!!!

This weekend we had some of the best weather, or at least the best we have had in a LONG time. Spent Saturday hiking Bradbury Mountain.

To all my "peeps"..

Happy Easter

artwork

I was presented with this beautiful piece of artwork today, the work of my 8 year old in his second grade art class. Per his explanation it is a dinosaur drinking hot lava out of a volcano, below it is a baby dinosaur and that's a broken tree behind them. I was beaming with pride up until he joyfully told me "mom but that's not the best or funniest part", he then pointed to the detail of dinosaur dung he had also made sure to include. Yup.........mom sure is proud?

The cat stole my nose

8 year old antics are the best on April fools, I woke up this morning fully expecting fake spiders and crazy stories. As the saying goes a "the best defense is a good offense". I woke excited this morning to put on these crazy glasses and a big clown nose go in and kiss my son good morning however I awoke to find only the glasses, big mystery where was my nose?? Disappointed I scraped my plan and later in the day was telling my son about what I had planned to do. He started laughing all excited "that's the funny red ball the cat was playing with last night". Needless to say I have looked in all the cats haunts and my red nose is MIA but at least the mystery is solved.
Have a good April Fools!