{"id":595,"date":"2014-05-11T17:51:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T22:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/?p=595"},"modified":"2014-05-11T17:51:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T22:51:09","slug":"happy-birthday-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/11\/happy-birthday-mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Mother’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OLYMPUS<\/p>\n

After a week of sick kids+husband, what I was really looking forward to this Mother’s Day was the possibility of a healthy family. No-one yelling “Snot! SNOT!” at me. No feverish kids. No couch-bound husband. Actually getting more than four or five hours of sleep.<\/p>\n

And not cooking.<\/p>\n

The not cooking thing worked out for the most part. The rest … not so much.<\/p>\n

Although the “Snot! Snot” shouts have been less frequent, there were still a few middle of the night wakeup calls last night, and the pugs and cats had me up at 6:16am, although technically it was the brief power outage that occurred a few minutes prior which knocked out the baby monitor, which then made it beep incessantly, which made Paco whine, which set the cats off … that got me up. But since it’s hard to get upset at a power outage, I simply let the dogs out, and then curled up on the couch until five minutes later when Abby wandered downstairs and started her non-stop chat stream. At least the\u00c2\u00a0first words in her one-sided dialogue were “Happy Mother’s Day!”.<\/p>\n

But, I still had a great Mother’s Day. The “Happy Mother’s Day” refrain was repeated when Evelyn came down and again at a few other points during the day, sometimes morphing into “Happy Birthday Mother’s Day!” which made me smile. At school Abby made me the mini garden above, as well as a “bouquet” of flowers, and then I received another bouquet of flowers from my brother and sister-in-law.<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS \"OLYMPUS \"OLYMPUS<\/p>\n

And\u00c2\u00a0my garden gnome collection grew again by one. It’s a good thing that we have a big garden \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

My favourite gift of all though was the start of a lovely Mother’s Day book<\/a>, forgoing store-bought cards from the kids in favour of a book of pictures and notes. Of course, since the kids are small the notes were short (and Ev’s was written by Abby\/Charles) but it was still lovely!<\/p>\n

*After a filling brunch out, I did have to make and serve dinner, but technically I didn’t “cook” it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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