mother's day

It was a great Mother's Day weekend. It has occurred to me that the girls are at the perfect age to really make Mother's Day a lot of fun. They are old enough to understand the concept of honoring mom on her special day yet still young enough to wholeheartedly jump in and participate.

Sydney had spotted a gift she wanted to give me at a local store several weeks ago, and after several cryptic phone calls between our house and grandma's she managed to secure the desired item by sending her grandmother to purchase it for her. Tess was less sneaky but nevertheless arranged a shopping trip for herself with her grandma to select and purchase the perfect gift. Apparently when they got to the store my mom discovered Tess had $30 of her own money wadded up in her pocket. Imagine her delight when the lotion set she wanted to buy turned out to be on sale for only $8!

The three of them (my mom and my daughters) returned to my house and holed up in the girls' bedroom wrapping the treasures. I think the girls were more excited for me to open them than I was! And so I received a lovely coffee mug filled with chocolates and a body wash/lotion set in a beautiful tropical print cosmetic bag. And the absolute gift of seeing the girls' true delight at giving me things they picked out and paid for themselves.

The things I received are lovely, but the feeling of being so loved by my daughters is priceless.