Tony wanted to take me out to dinner for Mother's Day, and I suggested going out on Saturday night, to avoid the crazy crowds that would probably be out and about on Mother's Day. IHOP was my choice since I was craving their chocolate chips pancakes. Ari was fairly well-behaved--I mean, you can't really expect a toddler to be a perfect, polite dinner companion, can you? My dinner was delicious, though.
Today was church, of course, and all the busyness that went with that. In the afternoon we came home, had a quick lunch, and put Ari down for her nap. Tony and I watched some TV, but I fell asleep on his shoulder.
When Ari and I woke up from our naps, we headed to Pastor and Dawn's house for dinner. My mom is out of town (visiting my sister on her first Mother's Day), so Dawn invited us to come share her Mother's Day dinner. Meagan (her daughter) made lasagna, and Pastor ordered salad and breadsticks from Olive Garden. Meagan also made chocolate-chip cookie bars and bought a carrot cake for dessert. We ate until we were stuffed and then went for a nice, long walk in the cool evening air, stopping to let Ari play at a nearby playground.
I did get flowers for Mother's Day, but not from Tony. When we were at Dawn's sister's flower shop, she had a small bunch of flowers she was getting ready to throw out, but Dawn insisted on taking them. We split them, and I ended up with this lovely bouquet. (The purple rose in the center is the one I got at church today, but all the others are from the flower shop.)
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And then I got my cards. Tony got me 2 because he's a nut like that--one is serious, and one is funny (I think you can figure out which is which). Notice on the card on the left, how a bunch of the words are underlined? That's Tony's special touch--he always does that with cards, and I love it. Inside the 2nd card, it ends with the words, "Happy Mother's Day, Sexy!" So I read it out loud because I thought it was funny, and as soon as I did, Ari carefully repeated, "Sexy?" I really have to watch what I say around her now.
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And then there was the card from Ari. She helped decorate the envelope...
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Here's the card itself...
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And she added her special touch on the inside.
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She absolutely loves coloring all of a sudden, so I'm sure she had a great time playing with this card.
So that was my Mother's Day--simple and sweet.
Happy Mother's Day to all you moms out there!
2 comments:
Matthew got me a corsage for Mother's Day. Wasn't that so thoughtful of him? ;) I like Ari's card that she gave you, especially her added touch--very cute :)
Happy Mother's Day!! Sounds like you had a good day, and night before. Yummm, chocolate chip pancakes. I love them and blueberry. Hmm, I think Baby wants blueberry pancakes...DAAAAVE?!? :)
Anyway, you got some very cute cards and Ari is an artist-in-the-making.
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