Happy Mother's Day! No, really!

My husband loves holidays and birthdays. He loves anticipation of holidays. It's very sweet. And, a little odd to me. Yeah, I'm *that* person. I like holidays, sure. Just maybe not as enthusiastically. He thinks I'm a curmudgeon. Yeah, a little.

This week he kept mentioning mother's day. What would make it the best mother's day ever? I mentioned a few things. Top of the list is peace and quiet...

We went out to lunch/brunch on Saturday to a place that let kids paint flowerpots. The kids had a blast.

We hit our neighborhood's shopping district for Kids in the Square, where the kids got their faces painted -- a dog for M-man and a kitty for C-girl -- and play games. It ended with M-man announcing he did not like the cupcake at the cupcake store and smashing it (it's still edible, whew...) That infuriated me, even though that is the kind of behavior M-man has when he's overtired or overstimulated. Then my husband was frustrated with me for being so frustrated.

That's kind of how the rest of the day went. I could tell a lot of it was just me and my attitude. I've had trouble relaxing lately. When you're "on" a lot of the time, it's hard to turn "off", sometimes more than others.

However, by last night, with Thai food and a nice bottle of red, we cozied up with DVR'ed Daily Shows and Colbert and it was all good.

Mother's day began at 1:30 a.m. for us, nice and early, with C-girl howling in her bed.

She had barfed all over herself and her bed.

Daddy and I are pros at this. He scoops up the bedding and anything else nailed with kiddie puke. I cuddle and clean up the kid.

Then we crashed, all of us.

This morning I got up early. The house was quiet, the sun shining. It was warm enough to open the windows.

I felt happy, if a little tired.

I didn't even wig out that there was only two scoops of coffee left. Which I'm drinking. Oh honey...

C-girl woke up and said "mommy!" softly. I asked her how she felt.

"I just want to play princess castle, mommy."

Which she did.

Now she is playing with the flower vase and asking a million questions.

"Why do you have these flowers?"

"Why do they smell?"

"I'm blowing on them."

"Can I pick them up?"

"Why are they in water?"

"We need to buy more (sidewalk) chalk."

"Can we go outside?"

Happy Mother's Day. :-)