Mother's Day is such a catch 22 - it's a day to celebrate ME but also our Mom's, and our Grandma's and.... how can we do it all? This year was definitely a year where I felt pretty overwhelmed. And tired! I just didn't know if I could "power through" and do it all, and so.... I didn't! I told Tyler I didn't want to have any plans, I just wanted to do what we wanted to, and see how the boys were (sleep issues lately... Wyatt and Wayne are sharing a room.) Tyler had been working a bunch of days straight, so it was nice just to be together. We went and saw his mom before church in the morning, and had a lovely visit and the boys were excited to bring her a hanging basket. Then we decided to go to church -not because we "had" to but because we WANTED to. We then came home to a rocky few hours of very big crabbiness, and decided we couldn't do the fishing trip to Silver Lake that we had planned - everyone needed a NAP instead. It was a good thing! After that we finally headed outside and enjoyed the beautiful weather and hung out in the backyard. The boys shot hoops (Weston made 3 in a row!) and eventually talked us into the first sprinkler run of the year. Now THAT'S a good Mother's Day!
The boys pulled out their gift for me - an ice cream machine!
At 5, we packed them up and headed up to Cedar Hill. It was a gorgeous night - and we didn't even need the sweatshirts that I brought! Tyler had charged up the tractors, so the kids were tearing up Grandma's backyard. Wayne practiced riding his bike WITHOUT training wheels, and was really whipping around before the end of the night. Crazy! The idea was to keep it simple and have hot dogs and smores, but Dad wanted steak so... we also roasted steak on a stick. DELISH! What a fabulous day.
