Happy Mother's Day

Today is the day that England celebrates Mothering Sunday. I feel I am uniquely positioned to celebrate 2 Mother's Days - England's (since this is where I have given birth to both boys) and America's (well, since I am American). Celebrating to me would mean that I get to sleep in these two Sundays. But this Mothering Sunday turned into Mothering Weekend where Charles and the boys spoiled me with lots of fun treats. It started on Friday night with Charles and I having a date which consisted of him making homemade nachos and listening to Mizzou play on the Internet.

On Saturday morning Charles took both boys off to the Brent Cross Shopping Centre to do a little shopping. He did a great job of explaining to Jack that they should keep what they bought a secret. I joked that Theo was going to tell me and Jack informed me that they had told Theo that they had bought me a birthday cake so he was sure Theo wasn't going to let the surprise out of the bag. Charles joked that I actually got two gifts: Saturday morning off and the actual bought present.

We decided to go out for dinner on Saturday night. I got to choose and I chose one of our favourites - Pizza Hut, or as Jack calls it The Hut. It is one of those restaurants that we rarely would eat at in America but some how has become special to us here in England.

On Sunday morning I did get my sleep-in, well if sleeping until 8:15 (after nursing a baby at 7:00) counts! It was a great extra hour of sleep and I was awoken by cinnamon toast in bed along with two cards, one from Charles and one from Jack and Theo. They also had picked out four really cute serving dishes that I have been wanting since we moved to England! :) It was a great day. I am truly blessed to be married to Charles and get to mother these two little spit-fires that we call sons.