Sunday, May 10, 2009

Sunday...It's good to the the mother

It's Mother's Day. As I sit here this morning thinking about my experiences as a mother, I know I am blessed. Some days it feels challenging raising a ten year old girl with raging mood swings and a son with his own set of challenges, but I wouldn't trade a minute of it for anything. I can't imagine my life without my children. They help to round me out as a person and without them, I wouldn't have learned half the things about life, love and compassion that I know today. This year feels especially wonderful. Since Breen and I got married in March, we are a family unit and I have the privilege of being a step mother to his children. Life is so damn good.

Yesterday, I had some "me time". I went to Borders and sat with a pile of books around my feet. I told Breen that if money were no consideration, I could easily drop hundreds of dollars in one visit to the book store. Primarily, I sat close to the cookbook section. I had no paper in my big handbag, so I ended up writing names of books for my wish list and recipes on the backs of old grocery receipts. I decided to buy myself two Mother's Day gifts.

A sushi kit with mat, book and CD (these will be awesome in my Bento Box).

A silk hand painted glasses case:


Breen surprised me with one of my wish list books. This book so completely ROCKS!


Kendall got me some plants for the front of the house:


4 comments:

  1. Happy Mother's Day Jane! Beautiful gifts! I too wish I had unlimited funds to buy books to my heart's content. Bookstores are like temples, aren't they? :)

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  2. Awww...such great gifts!
    Happy Mothers Day to you hawt mama!!!

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  3. Let me know who you like the cookbook. My husband is going vegetarian... and I try to cook a meatless dish on Monday and Thursdays... but I'm running out of ideas...and I want to made sure everyone is getting the right amount of protein, etc.

    Happy Mother's Day

    Angie

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  4. Those look like awesome gifts and how cool it is to give them to an awesome mom!!


    peace and hugs

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