Happy belated Mommy's Day

Happy Mother's Day, one day late, to all the mommies out there -- to our mommies and grandmommies, for whom we now have a sudden and surprising amount of sympathy...and also to the mommies who currently put in all that effort raising babies and still live to blog about it.

My boys treated me to a lovely day. First, of course, we went out to breakfast...



...to the same place they took me last Mother's Day:


Kind of different now, doncha think? Why don't I even remember him being that bitty anymore?

To continue our Mother's Day fun, interspersed between two Isaac naps we went to the U-Village for some strolling and iced-tea sipping. And, of course, fountain molesting:



Fox was also showing Return of the Jedi, which I was able to watch in its entirety with my precious snuggly boy sleeping on my chest. I thus spent most of the day with my face buried in his beautiful silky wonderful-smelling blonde hair, though my rib cage paid dearly for supporting Lord Fattington for three hours solid.

I told the boys to let me buy my own presents. I got two CDs and a book about making the transition to stay-at-home-mom-dom from Barnes & Noble. I also got a small potted plant, an English lavender, which Isaac 'made' for me at school -- it says "Happy Mother's Day 2005, Isaac". As soon as I got it, my first reaction: "I didn't realize how much I loved English lavender before." My second reaction: "I can never throw this away, can I..."