Mother's Day

My very first Mother's Day. I can't believe it!! I spent the morning with Toby and Makenna and we went out to breakfast at IHOP along with what seemed like all of the other mom's in the Redlands area:-) Oh well...it was tasty food and while we waited everyone commented on how cute Makenna was. As a mom I love that, so I didn't mind the wait too much. I had set in my mind what I was going to order when I got there but now they have the calories listed on the menu. I don't know if I like that because it made me feel guilty getting what I wanted to and swayed my decision on what to eat. It is probably for the better, but it was still yummy food.

In the evening my sister's and I set up a surprise for my mom on Mother's Day. She was going to be returning from a weekend with her sister's family and was thinking that all of our family was going to celebrate Mother's Day on a different day. Since we now all have our husband's family, and in Alycia's case fiancé's family, to visit also my mom was graciously telling us that we could celebrate another day so that we didn't have to run all over the place. She was so surprised when she walked in to our house and everyone was there to celebrate Mother's Day with her. We made a special dinner and dessert for her. We had stuffed pork chops, rice, green beans, and for dessert we had Raspberry Napoleans. Thanks to Rebecca the dinner and dessert turned out great! If I was left to cook for everyone by myself who knows how dinner would have turned out. Basically I worked on making the boxed rice, green beans, and the instant pudding while Rebecca was in charge of making the pork chops and puff pastry (the difficult things). I was so excited too because it was the first time that I got to use my china dishes, tablecloth, and cloth napkins. I guess I didn't look too carefully at the napkins though because I had forgotten to take off the tags...hehe. It was fun to get everyone together just to hang out and talk because it is getting more and more difficult to have that time together.