My Mother's Day Pic with the kids - this was as good as it got...
My grandma, Bri, me and my mother
Okay, so Mother's Day...here we go... I wish that I could say that it was a magical day this year but it proved to be quite the opposite - as much as I tried to enjoy the day the harder it worked against me. I woke up with a headache but the kids were very pleasant and Anthony gave me sweet things and a super sweet card...good start besides the headache...then Anthony had to leave for work and thus began the what-would-be torturous day. After Anthony left Sabrina's temper tantrums kicked in with a lovely ever-downward spiral effect (curse the designers of her baby doll's shoes). Jake went from sleep to screaming off and on which often correlated with the tantrums. I just wanted to get out of the house in one piece & I was trying to leave on time so that I could go to church with my mother so that I wouldn't have to go it alone for Mother's Day. Man, I will cut it short but let's just say the day continued with non-stop fun for me. The kids did not cooperate during church, but to their credit they did take turns for the most part...it was just non-stop for me. I forgot a bunch of things in my haste to leave including little things like diapers for the baby (I only had 2 in the diaper bag & of course, he went through those just at church), wipes, etc, etc, etc. I kept thinking to myself "What the heck Mother's Day - why are you being so cruel? Can't you just make my pounding head have some kind of relief?" And then my Anthony finally came and things got a little better. He drove the kids home and let me take the other car all by myself. There was silence in the car, it was beautiful...but I found myself trying to catch up with the other car. The car that had my wonderful husband and the two reasons I get to celebrate Mother's Day for myself as well as for my own wonderful mother and grandmothers. I kept thinking "that's the car I should be in, even after a day like today...because I would die if anything ever happened to any of them, I love my family and I am so grateful for them." So, thank you to Anthony for not just the moment of solitude that I needed but for the perspective that I needed even more :)
This week has been almost as crazy as Mother's Day and so to remind myself of the good times this week I include the following pics that make me smile...
