Sunday Snapshots {Mother's Day 2018}

Mother's Day was a sweet finale to a busy week of "vacation"! On Sunday, we had twenty-two people around our table(s), chatting, feasting on a casual meal (chicken strips, my mom's awesome potato salad, fresh veggies and dip, and fruit salad) and, of course, honoring our mothers. Mother's Day is a "pretty" holiday, don't you think . . . an opportunity to embrace pink and roses and all things feminine.

Ooooo . . . dessert. Beautiful white cupcakes, strawberries, and a pavlova bar. Individual pavlovas could be topped with your choice of fresh whipped cream, chocolate whipped cream, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and chocolate chips.

We took lots of photos. We exchanged tokens of love. (This mama received three live plants! Again I ask, Can I keep them alive? I am going to try!) We had Wrapping Paper Antics. (Kristin received a unique Mother's Day dragon, a limited edition by Gavin created with Mother's Day tissue paper! Did I say "unique"? Yes!) We had a couple of musical selections and a skit. We laughed a lot! The children were singing a song they had learned in choir. It is sung as a round. Well, the first two began and something got them tickled. I mean, so tickled they had to stop singing. They regained their composure and began again. It was going well, and then Maddie's voice cracked and the laughing took over again. The third and fourth attempts also ended in a fit of giggles. You know how it is when the harder you try to stop laughing, the more you laugh? That was it! And the more they laughed, the more we all laughed! It was not the smoothest performance ever, but oh what fun we had! If "a merry heart does good, like medicine," then everyone left the party a little healthier! 

After (an incomplete) clean-up, the four of us went to visit to Ron's mom. Ron was the last of her eight children to pay her a Mother's Day visit, so she said that we "made her day." "Well, that is a pretty easy way to make someone's day," I said, but she insisted that it did. (Thinking it over later, I pondered that perhaps it can be just that easy to make someone's day. Note to self: Try more often to make someone's day.)

We arrived home just before 8 pm, in time to watch the new Little Women on Masterpiece. I had been so excited to watch it. Little Women was one of my favorite childhood books and we have watched every one of the movie/television versions of Little Women, so I was eager to see how this one compared. I loved this version, although it didn't top my favorite (the one with Winona Ryder as Jo).

(Would you like to take a quiz to see which Little Women sister you're most like?)

How did you spend your Mother's Day?