Mother's Day

I started to get out of bed when PK came into the room and told me they were setting up a surprise so I needed to pretend to be asleep until they were ready.  We started early morning celebrations when PK started working at the prison.  It seemed that many holidays or birthdays fell on days that he would be working late, so we celebrated before he left for work or the kids left for school.  Now that he is on a more traditional schedule, morning celebrations are just tradition.

 

I don't want expensive gifts, but a little forethought goes a long way.  Aaron was camping with the Scouts, but the girls and PK had the morning planned.  They bought some of my favorite treats, Swiss cake rolls and cream horns.  The roses were straight from our yard.  Love.

The girls made me cards.  Each of the ponies on Hannah's card represented a family member.  She even included Holly.

 

PK planned a menu for a brunch later in the day after Aaron had returned.  He researched recipes and made gravy!  I learned by watching my grandma make it, but I guess those Indian grandmas don't make too much white skillet gravy.  Ha!  There was also a planned dinner menu of pizzas, but we were all still too stuffed from breakfast and brunch. 

 

Aaron surprised me with a book about moms that he had purchased at the school book fair a few weeks before.  More forethought. 

 

It was a fabulous Mother's Day!