Sunday 10 March 2013

It Is Not Mothers Day...


... If you live in North America, or Australia, or many other places in the world. But it is Mothers Day if you live in the UK. And call me shallow, but I love it.

I don't ask for a lot for Mothers Day, in fact for me it is not about gifts that money can buy but about the small wonderful things that your kids can do that just make you smile all the more. Oh, and the fact that himself is ace at making me the best breakfast in bed going. I kid you not. I've blogged about it before, but his smoked salmon eggs benedict is amazing!


Then there are the homemade cards. My girls are funny because they can never make up their mind what design to go with so I get more than one from each of them. I like that.


Emily made me laugh particularly hard this year as she had typed this out on the computer and then taped it in one of her cards.


There was a lovely box of chocolates, and some homemade presents - a bracelet, a little pouch with handmade soaps in it and a dream catcher.


Best of all was the big family cuddle in bed, and the laughter. Which peaked when Helen got the trebuchet she made in school last year and used it to fire wet cotton balls at Emily. Between that and the party poppers they set off my bedroom is going to take some serious cleaning up tomorrow but I don't care because it was worth it.

The last gesture from the girls today is this cake that they made with absolutely no assistance from me at all. Their Auntie Francine is going to be sooooooo proud (my best friend in Canada is a professional cake maker and taught them all they know).

There's a chocolate cake hiding under that beautiful exterior.
Wherever you are - Mothers Day or not - I hope you have had as lovely and happy a Sunday as I have had.

Susan

39 comments:

  1. You know I actually think you do deserve it! Enjoy!

    I got breakfast in bed chosen from a menu with luxuries - hot water bottle, hugs, chat or flowers! Can you guess what I chose?

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  2. Brilliant - and that cake is really the icing on the cake as far as the pics go. Glad you got spoiled x

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  3. That is absolutely awesome. I love the multi-card approach. Enjoy every bit of it!

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  4. What a lovely Mother's day you have been treated to, and you definitely deserve it.
    xxxx

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  5. Lovely treats! I love that you get loads of cards from just two daughters!

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  6. I am so glad you have such a wonderful family, breakfast, food, treats, mayhem and cake. Perfect.

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  7. You are blessed with awesome children.

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  8. Happy mothers day sweetie, glad the girls and himself are spoiling you! x

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  9. I need to show my husband that first picture...he struggles to put 'man', 'cook' and 'kitchen' in the same sentence :-(

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  10. Happy Mother's Day! I thoroughly enjoyed your blog post. ♥

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  11. Aw man, what sweet girls!!! I love the cards and gifts (my heart melted a little) and being a breakfast-at-any-time sort those eggs look deee-vine.

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  12. Happy mothers day to you, you thoroughly deserved all your treats. And what a fabulous cake

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  13. What a fantastic mother's day haul! You are doing a great job raising very talented, big hearted mothers of the future (distant future). That cake is amazing!

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  14. Brilliant! I love having the big cuddle in bed!

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  15. Well deserved indeed! You are bringing those girls up to be generous souls! And hubby needs to take over the cooking duties more- he's obviously got some kitchen skills too!

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  16. Ooh, you did very well out of today, rather better than my mum did! And yes, you can never get rid of a man that knows how to make eggs benedict well...

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  17. What a day!!! Your girls are so talented; great cards, gifts and a glorious cake. Lucky mum you are! Happy day.

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  18. Sounds like a perfect day, love the cake and fab cards! :o)

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  19. That is so sweet - your girls are amazing - any chance you want to swap kids?

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  20. Tell the girls the cake looks awesome. I really like the bird.happy mothers day

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  21. Your girls are so sweet...and as thoughtful, generous and caring as their mam!

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  22. sounds like a perfect day. Your girls have some serious skills in the cake making department.

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  23. Happy Mothers Day Susan - looks like you were well deservedly spoilt! I need to show my family the pics of your yummy breakfast as I think that will do me just nicely in 2 months time:)

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  24. Your girls are so cute! That cake looks amazing. The fact that chocolate cake hides under the icing is making my mouth water!

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  25. Wow what a wonderful Mothers Day for you. You have awesome kids. Eggs Benedict is a winner as are the cards and the cake.

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  26. All wonderful!!! Especially love the typing and the gifts they made :)
    Happy Mother's Day!

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  27. Your kids rock. Everything looks designed to ensure you had the best Mother's Day ever .

    I love that you get multiple cards. So cute!

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  28. What a lucky mum you are, it's 10.30pm and the look of your eggs is making my mouth water! :o)

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  29. Aw! So glad you got spoiled today! These are the days that make sense of the insanity! Jxo

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  30. Looks like a perfect day with lots of loving. Di x

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  31. Absolutely perfect! And my goodness, look at that cake! They did goooooood! Happy Mother's Day Susan!

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  32. Oh Yum! You've shown them well. All your treats, time and loving energy come home to roost. Well done.

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  33. that's lovely! Happy Mother's day!!

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  34. Ooh that smoked salmon eggs benedict would make me declare EVERY day as Mother's Day - it looks so yum!
    Sounds like a truly special day with your girls (my furry babes didn't even get me a card!) and they should indeed be proud of that cake.
    Happy Monday,
    Xx

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  35. Wow! What a fantastic Mother's Day! Do you get to celebrate again in May?!

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  36. Hmmm...mine wasn't quite like this but lovely all the same. So happy you were spoilt rotten!

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  37. Wow, what an amazing array of goodies! Happy Mother's day, lovely x

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