Mother's Day 2012!! Ollie has been sooooo excited since he came home from school on Thursday with some SECRET items that he stashed in the trunk of the car, then hid under his bed when he got home.... he was practically exploding with excitement by
this morning, when he and Daddy set up my surprises on the kitchen table. You'd think it was Christmas! When I finally came downstairs, to shouts of "Happy Mother's Day!" all around, I found the most fantastic handmade card from Ollie, along with a beautiful handmade decorated heart ornament... best of all was his happiness, bursting at the seams. Maddie was so full of smiles and happiness, too. Daddy and the kids had picked out a nice Gerber Daisy plant for me, and Daddy chose some Stonewall Kitchen dressings and a lovely candle for me as well. So nice! Then Daddy set off on a 6-hour, 110 mile bike ride. HA! When I mentioned that on Facebook, noting "I love you, but you owe me one!" I unknowingly set off a firestorm of indignation... loads of friends writing in disbelief that he would do that on Mother's Day. Then I had to write in and explain that he's training for a race and this was the only day he could get out on a big ride before the race next weekend, and that he always encourages me to have lots of "ladies time..." So yeah, he "owes me," but I would never say that if I didn't have complete faith that he would pay up!!
After that I think everyone understood (as I certainly do) that he would never normally go out like that on a special day, and it's just unfortunate bad timing. What I can't say on Facebook (because I hate using Facebook to blab on and on about my charmed life... but this blog is my space so I can write what I want!!) is that I am convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that I'm the luckiest mom on the planet, married to a man who supports me in every way possible and then some, who loves me to the moon and back, and I him -- AND we are bringing up, quite simply, the two most awesome small humans ever known! I don't think about this only on Mother's Day, I think of it just about every single day.
So! Then Andy called me mid-morning to say he wanted to cut his ride short! Just 70 miles or so (wimp! ha ha), because it was Mother's Day (awww) and because we had so much to get done during the day, including a nice lunch out together, and then a big proj-dyect at home -- putting up our new bunk bed!!! So I hauled the kids back to Bear Mountain, NY
(about an hour and 20 minutes away!) to pick him up, then we all had a really pretty drive to Warwick, NY for a nice lunch outside at an Italian resaurant. Back home, we took apart Ollie's old bed and built the bunk bed, which we'd just picked up yesterday (after finding it on Craigslist, yay!)... much excitement all around!! So Maddie has slept her last night in a crib, and now she's in her big-girl bed. My big girl. I heard them upstairs giggling and talking for a bit, but I think their fatigue got the better of them pretty quickly. Soon Maddie's room will be a playroom for them, and they'll have so much fun in it!! Can't wait. Such a nice day, such a happy mommy.
