{"id":1363,"date":"2009-05-11T16:08:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T21:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2009-05-11T16:08:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T21:08:36","slug":"my-sweet-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=1363","title":{"rendered":"My Sweet Mother’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I took my own advice and kept my expectations low for Sunday.\u00a0 And you know what?\u00a0 It was a fabulous day.\u00a0 I got to sleep in (albeit a tiny bit, since we were going to early church).\u00a0 At church, they gave the moms huge, chocolate dipped strawberries.\u00a0 Our lunch plans with Toones were scrapped because they were a little worried about Josiah’s germs (though he was 100% by Saturday morning).\u00a0 Oh well… that meant I didn’t have to cook and clean for company \ud83d\ude42 Brian scrapped his plans to ride home from church, and joined us to go to the mall to ride the escalator, elevator and the carousel and let the kids get Happy Meals while we had Panera.\u00a0 Fun for all!\u00a0\u00a0 Brian helped the kids cut flowers from the yardfor me and paint canvases I’ve wanted to hang in the entryway with their handprints.\u00a0 They aren’t exactly what I had imagined, but hey… the kids did it, and I didn’t have to clean up, so they’re beautiful \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0 It was just a lovely, relaxed day with my beautiful, much beloved family.<\/p>\n

Funny story… Saturday while Brian was riding, I was trying to figure out something to do to break up the day.\u00a0 I’d seen a sign at the grocery store that kids could decorate cookies for mom, so we headed over there.\u00a0 Analise and I had a long discussion about who the decorated cookies would be for.\u00a0 She was NOT into the idea of decorating them for me or Grandma.\u00a0 We had a bit of a heated discussion about “giving”, and I ended up telling her she could find a cookie for herself when we were done.<\/p>\n

When we arrived, we found it was not cookies, but CAKES to decorate for $7.50 .\u00a0 Huh.\u00a0 Well, before I could stop her… and really, how could I stop her?\u00a0 She was so gung-ho to decorate something!\u00a0 (And I was going to get $7 worth of coupons with the cake, so that sold me!)\u00a0 She ran on up, picked the little sign for her cake, and grabbed a huge, unwieldy frosting bag.\u00a0 The tips were so tiny, it was nearly impossible for even me to get anything to come out.\u00a0 And the young guy running the show was asking, “What do you want to write for your mommy?\u00a0 How about ‘I love you’?”\u00a0 I’m thinking, hm… she is just now writing her name with a pencil, and you’re expecting ‘I Love You’ with a frosting bag?!?<\/p>\n

She squeezes out a tiny little bit before the head bakery guy comes and swaps the tips so it comes out a bit more easily.\u00a0 A crowd gathered to watch her intense work at making little squiggles and lines with comments like, “They’ll put you to work in the bakery, you’re doing so well!”\u00a0 I had my hands full keeping an energetic Josiah from knocking over the long table of cakes, poking the frosting on Analise’s cake, and touching all the tips on the other frosting bags.\u00a0 What a boy!\u00a0 I had to laugh as we checked out and the kids were dancing around, feeling all the puffy bags of chips, pretending to eat the treats in the checkout line.\u00a0 Here I was, juggling the kids to make my own Mother’s Day cake.\u00a0 How funny!<\/p>\n

The cake was YUMMY and my sweeties gave me a good photo to remember my lovely day!<\/p>\n

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All the sweetness I need! How blessed I am!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I took my own advice and kept my expectations low for Sunday.\u00a0 And you know what?\u00a0 It was a fabulous day.\u00a0 I got to sleep in (albeit a tiny bit, since we were going to early church).\u00a0 At church, they gave the moms huge, chocolate dipped strawberries.\u00a0 Our lunch plans with Toones were scrapped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-grind","tag-mothers-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-lZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}