from Mothers Day - a snapshot (snapshots!!)

a plant and hand painted pot from Carly

oh, the puke bucket that saw A LOT of action this past weekend and AGAIN today!

A few of my gifts. Motherhood magnets for poetry on the fridge, really fun postcards about motherhood! And, a lime that Cameron found in the fruit container that had a bruise in the shape of a heart!! Isn't nature beautiful! And a stack of magazines to read when I want to!

A Daddy that holds babies is GOOD!

on the left is a cool laminated bookmark from Cameron (which reads: Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, but the best Mom is you!) and on the right words of love from Carly. Beautiful.

A hand painted dish, and soap from Claire on the left (of course done in my fave colour!) And, on the right a card from all the kids.

a card from Cameron

from Carly

from Claire (this is Cliff and I)

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I had a great day. After nice night out last night for our 10th anniversary, and this morning I got up and went for a run, which turned into more of a long walk in the rain and wind. And then home and a drive for bagels, treats for the kids. A new jacket for me! A trip to the nursery to get plants for our garden. Ice cream, shopping, and then take out Chinese food. It was a great day. I had a beautiful day with my kids and I was so pleased to have gorgeous sunshine this evening!

Happy Mothers Day!

Mothers Day 2008 - Once a Year!

The boy who surprised me with a breakfast!

The kids getting ready to give me my presents and gifts for Mothers Day!

The gang is all here (hhmmm how does Courtney know how to stand already??! LOL)

Our last baby Courtney, and the wonderful man who made this all possible :D

All week Cameron has told me there would be a great surprise, and here it was this morning. All on his own he wrote me this note that reads:

To: Mommy

From: the person who said you will have a surprise!

Well, the surprise was that he made my breakfast before I got up. My Kashi (portion controlled 1 cup LOL) 3 breakfast sausages, and my low cal, high fibre grain bread with natural peanut butter!

Mothers Day 2008

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone


Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. ~John Wilmot

Mothers Day - Hey a day just for me?!

I remember asking my Mom when I was little why kids never got a 'special day.' And my Mom responded to me 'because every day is a kids day!' Ain't that the truth! Every day is kids day! Couldn't ring more true today! Or how well that statement fits into my life!

Anyways! It is first thing in the morning of Mothers Day. I am tired after a night out with my hubby. But, I wanted to wish all of the Mom's and soon to be Mom's a happy Mothers Day today. I hope you all enjoy your day doing whatever the heck you want to do! (but that never seems to happen does it?!) Oh well. We found some neat motherhood magnetic poetry that I am excited to try out on the fridge, and some really funny postcards! I will have to scan and share! I am going to scan them and post them when I am having 'a day!!' they are really funny! I was cracking up in Wendels tonight! Just laughing my head off! Perhaps it was the bellini or two I had at Milestones?

I know our kids are REALLY excited about tomorrow. I know the three big kids have gifts waiting for me for tomorrow morning. I am excited to see their treasures they have created at school. I am excited to get kisses and hugs from six treasures in my life.

I told Cliff tonight that I am going to have a room just for all of the little treasures I will receive each year!

My wish for all of you is to enjoy your day, and hopefully take a bit of time to do something just for you! And for all of the new Moms out there! Hold those babies tight and kiss them OFTEN! They grow up WAY TOOOOO fast.

I am HOPING to get out for a run tomorrow morning (well in about 8 hours really) but I will have to see what the morning has in store for me. I need to burn off the goodies I had tonight! Delish!

Happy Mothers Day!