Mom's Day Review

Mother's Day here and gone, darn it. Every Sunday should be Mother's Day :)

My friend Karrie and I went out Saturday night to kick off our Mother's Day. We started at our neighborhood pool hall, moved on down to the Dubliner, an Irish Pub. After one small beer there we went down to the Square to listen to a Blues Band. The bars here are so small that if you want to sit at a table you're better off paying a few dollars and reserving a table a few days in advance. Karrie had already done this so we were lucky enough to have our little table to hang out and people watch while the band played. Of course we enjoyed ourselves, as we always do when we go to this particular bar, The Lizard King.

Sunday morning Erik woke with the kids at about 0730. I put in ear plugs and went back to sleep until about 0900. I laid in bed for another 30min enjoying the feeling of no responsibility and having the bed to myself. I really was just listening to the kids and Erik play in the living room. Daddy loves his babies and enjoys playing with them all the time anyway. I came out of the room and he had all the breakfast foods ready to cook. So I was greeted with breakfast, a very special homemade card and a beautiful natual emerald bracelet. Emeralds are the kids birthstone :). He did good, very good, I love the bracelet. It's very earthy looking, natural looking stone. Oh, and he also bought me some perfume (that I got to pick out).

Anyhow, after getting over feeling bad about forgetting my own Mothers and making her a sign, I put in a new video. It had good reviews online so I figured since Kenna likes to dance all the time I would get it. For us adults it's kind of annoying but Kenna lit up. She jumped up and started imitating all the motions they were directing us to do. Daddy and Deegan sat on the couch rolling their eyes and got bored. Kenna and I danced together etc. It was fun to listen to her giggle and see that big smile.

We had our sitter come over for three hours in the middle of the day. It's no big deal really about the timing because I have her come over during their nap anyway. So she gets paid to do her studies while the kids nap. Erik and I jumped on the local tram system and headed down to the Square for lunch and whatever we wanted to do. We found a nice cafe, only 50+ to choose from, and had a coffee. We then ate lunch at a different more pubby type place. We enjoyed ourselves and dreamed about all the things we could do to customize our house in San Antonio. Not saying we'll ever do them but it was fun to talk about and wonder how incredibly expensive it would be. You know kind of like dreaming about "if you won the lottery what would you do?"

For the evening we just took the kids to the store and walked around the mall to get their little legs tired. They also get to ride all those toddler rides they have scattered about. They like riding carasouls. Just before bed I got lucky enough to get a nice foot massage :)) I can never have enough of those!

So as you read it was a nice relaxing Mother's Day. It was just so nice that Erik took charge of everything the entire day concerning the kids. When it was time for them to eat, I left the room. That itself was a huge break.