Happy Mother's Day!

Abigail is blessed to have one mommy, three grandmas, two great-grandmas, one great-great grandma and three aunts. One of which is also her Godmother. Which means I'm blessed to know all these wonderful women too! But as you can imagine it is absolutely impossible to visit all these ladies on one day. Plus I didn't really want to spend MY Mother's Day driving all over the tri-county area. So we do what we can and hope everyone understands.

A couple weeks ago Sarah and Eli came down to visit and we crafted these garden stepping stones for all the grandmas and ourselves. They didn't turn out as good as I had hoped, but I'm sure all the grandmas understood we were working with two 19 month olds and wet cement! They were a big hit regardless!

We started celebrating the middle of last week with Mamaw Deanna, Grandma Darlene and Aunt & Godmother Kristen with lunch at Stream Cliff Herb Farm. It is my absolute favorite place. The food is delicious and the gardens are beautiful.



I actually made reservations for Sunday lunch with the Megels at Stream Cliff also. Adam's mom loves to go there too. And since she raised four boys, she rarely gets to go to "cute" places as a family. Mother's Day ended up being rainy and cold which was disappointing. Considering our table was outside on the porch and we couldn't walk through any of the gardens. My visions of beautiful family photos went right out the window. Oh well.



Mommy & Abi at lunch



After lunch we went home and we napped and caught up on dvr while Abi napped. My only request to Adam for the day was that I didn't have to cook or prepare any food. He came through with flying colors. He made bacon and eggs for breakfast, Stream Cliff for lunch and we went to Panera for supper. After Panera we went to Rural King for some free popcorn, to look at the chicks left from Easter and generally roam the store.

In case you were wondering...no, I do not feel embarassed to whip out my camera at Rural King. I'm recording memories!

Even though the rain ruined our original plans, it was such a nice, relaxing day. I felt very spoiled. Plus, I always think Mother's Day is a little more special when you're pregnant.



The beautiful basket Adam and Abi got me



Sunday evening there was a gorgeous rainbow arching across the entire sky. I was standing in the middle of our street snapping pics thinking about how special it is to see a rainbow. And I couldn't help but think it sort of reminded me what motherhood is like. Somedays it rains (meltdowns in a restaurant, goldfish ground into freshly vacuumed carpet) but then there are rainbows (hugs and kisses, watching Abi learn something new, hysterical laughter). I absolutely love being a mom and am so grateful to all the women who have "mothered" me!