Mother's Day

So last year was kinda sorta my first Mother's Day. We had met N, but wouldn't be her parents for 4 more months.

My hubby works under the philosophy that I'm not his mother, so why should he do anything for me? But he did send me a thank you e-mail "from N", fixed dinner that night, and bought some really beautiful roses for me "on behalf of N". I'll take what I can get, LOL! In the end, just being N's mama is the greatest Mother's Day gift I've ever had and as tired and frustrated as I get sometimes (she is, after all, every bit of almost 2), I can't take motherhood for granted. Every day I am amazed that she is here in our lives and I feel so lucky to have been given the privilege of being her mama. There are days when I feel so sad for her birth mother. She will never have the opportunity to get to know the great little person she created. I just hope that because of the paperwork we had to obtain from N's birth grandmother last summer, N's birth mother knows that N now has a family and is very much loved and well cared for.

My own mom was in Florida visiting my brother's family, so it was really weird not having her here and I missed her. We always have them over for dinner, either one I fix or out at a restaurant. C was on the hook this year as I told him I didn't plan to spend my first real Mother's Day cooking and any "restaurant" where we can't get our food immediately is still not a good option right now, so we were staying home. In the end, he only had to fix steak, salad, and corn on the cob for the two of us, something he does occasionally anyway because he is a man and feels the call of the grill in his blood.

I spent a few hours Sunday in my craft room, trying to clean and organize it because it has been a growing disaster ever since we brought N home and it's been frustrating to me. It's amazing how much stuff I have for all my hobbies and how quickly it can all get out of hand. I still ended up cleaning the kitchen that day and doing laundry. Not really a day off for me, but a special day all the same because our daughter is here with us.

The day before Mother's Day, we both took N to the park. She tried out the big sandbox there for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed having both of us to follow her around. We have a really great park near our house with lots of things to climb and see.

And here she is today. Sweetness personified, very agreeable after a long afternoon nap.