Today was a lovely day. It really was. I had my breakfast shake in bed (not a big breakfast eater) and all of my children took me aside sometime during the morning to give me special little presents and cards they had made for me (Nina had actually hid her present for me under the ottoman in the family room and when I came downstairs reached under with flourish and said "THIS is for YOU!!"). As I was getting ready my i-Pod, set to shuffle, seemed to play all my favoritest songs, and Adrian got all the kids dressed and ready (aside from hair which I did) and we got to church only about 5 minutes late which is kind of a record for Mother's Day. I'll be the first to admit that sometimes Mother's Day is not my favorite holiday. I love the special treatment from my family and hugs and kisses and "happy Mother's day Mom!" in the morning, but I do not love it when it feels like a guilt-fest at church. And guess what, today was not a guilt-fest or even guilt-twinged at church. It was really nice. I got to go to Relief Society. I got a big cookie and 3 Musketeers bar and all of my children went up front to sing Mother's Day songs (a first since Nina is a Sunbeam now). Then I came home and took a nap. Ahhhh.... Adrian made dinner and a fantastic chocolate mousse for dessert and I got to open presents (America's Test Kitchen Baking Cookbook and See's chocolates). And now tonight I am blogging and watching America The Story of Us and the kids have been happy and generally non-whiny. I can't image a nicer day.Oh and I didn't even mention how my Mother's Day weekend actually started on Friday when I went to see Babies (which was the cutest movie!!) and out to dinner with Jenny. It was awesome and I love our girls nights! Then on Saturday after a primary activity which I was partially in charge of with the rest of the primary presidency, we had a day where I got to do "whatever I wanted" as Adrian put it. So we went to See's Chocolates in Denver of course and then window shopped at The Cherry Creek Mall which is the coolest mall. I am in LOVE with the store Sur La Table. It is my mecca. I used to think The Container Store was my mecca, but I was wrong. I loved Sur La Table even more. BUT it is an incredibly over-priced mecca so I just soaked in all the wonderful cookeriness without buying anything. The kids got to play in the same play area that Sophie played in almost 10 years ago when she was a little under a year old and we lived in Colorado. This play area is so cool - it looks like a big breakfast spread with softish-sculptury-things of bacon, eggs, sausage, strawberries, and a big bowl of shredded wheat cereal. Super super cute play area and Nina and Ben had a blast! Sophie is now too tall and old for play lands so she had as much fun as Adrian and I had watching Ben and Nina treat the sausage links like balance beams. Then after window shopping and frozen yogurt we went home and the babysitter came and Adrian and I went on a date. We had Chinese and saw Iron Man 2 (which just may be the loudest movie I've ever seen - man I'm getting old) and it was great. All great and fun and lovely.
Big thanks to my family for making me feel special and pampering me all weekend with all my favorite things including snuggles and hugs and kisses. I love you all so much and am so grateful to be a woman and a mom. Happy Mother's Day!
