A very happy mother's day

Today is Mother's day. It's such a bitter sweet day. More sweet than bitter, though, because I've got a lot to be happy for. I miss my mom terribly, but I don't use mother's day to dwell on her passing. I have 364 other days in the year to reflect, remember, appreciate, reminisce and grieve. Mother's day shouldn't be a sad day because my mother is no longer with us. Rather, it should be a happy day because I have 2 beautiful, sweet little girls to celebrate. And, in a sense, they are here because of her.

An early morning snapshot

And, so, aside from the gift of being a maman to my sweet girls, I think I got the mac daddy of all gifts today. This gift will have to be my mother's day, Christmas, birthday, anniversary, Easter, and Valentine's day gifts for the next 25 years. But, first, I got a beautiful card signed, personally, by Carys and my favourite gigantic chocolate bar -it's 400g of pure Belgian almond decadence. I could eat the whole thing in a day. That was all I needed. It's definitely less about material things and more about quality time to spend with my girls. But then... something unexpected happened. Something a little more material than I could ever have imagined.

Let's rewind a little.

My morning began with a cup of coffee (mmmm, I love weekend coffee) and by feeding Paisley. I, then, coloured with Carys and played with Play-Doh. Then, what would be a Sunday without a trip to the grocery store? So, our little family of 4 headed out for some much needed groceries, then back home. Carys napped and papa took Paisley out for a walk so I could sneek in a nap too. Darren then BBQed some steaks and we had a great dinner. We put the kids to bed, ate some chocolate fudge cake and waited (im)patiently for the *deal* to go through. That's right, we had put in an offer on a gorgeous, wonderful, beautiful dream of a house the day before. At 11 pm, I got the (3rd) best mother's day present ever: a brand new home. By 12:45 a.m that night, all was signed and ready to go. It was a happy mother's day indeed !

Maman and little C, who is not so keen on looking at the camera. She did a good job, here.

Maman and her little P. Always such a photogenic little pal.

End of day snapshot.

Oh, happy day!