Mother’s Day May 8,2011

Well I did it. I slept in until the sky was light. I didn’t even wake up until 5:30. Maybe I shouldn’t use the term wake up because I don’t think that really happened until Monday morning. It was a big day at Seabury yesterday and then I threw an after event party at my house. Thank goodness it was small. Before retiring last night I got out the “big guns”, AKA heating pad, tennis balls, and stretchy thing. Maybe that’s why I made it to daybreak. Welcome to Mother’s Day. My rent-a-daughter, Amy Puz, was the first of my kids to wish me a Happy Mother’s Day. Albeit, she lives right next to the kitchen and could hear when I got up. I had no idea what we would have for breakfast. I was a little exhausted from yesterday, but not enough to skip church (it takes something like a 104 temperature to keep me from church). I looked in the fridge and was so grateful to find a container with grated cheese, a container with crab and cauliflower, eggs, spinach, and  a leftover pork chop. Those were some good scrambled eggs. The pork chop was served separately with some leftover dipping sauce. For desert we split the leftover chocolate covered strawberry. Who says you can’t have desert with breakfast?

Church was amazing. Pastor Marocco shared a great message entitled “Empowering the Next Generation” from Second Timothy about the importance of being a mom and passing down our faith and heritage to our children. Then it was off to Whole Foods for a shopping spree. Had to stock up on veggies and stuff so I don’t have to shop for a few days. Last stop before home was getting our weekly supply of wheat grass.

We had thawed out a couple of bison rib eyes and picked up a humongous lobster tail at Costco. How unusual for us to enjoy surf and turf. We have some leftover cole slaw and kale salad so no need to fix anything else. While we were waiting for lunch to be ready, we took out some “Humbolt Fog” cheese and snacked on it with some crackers. Rhonda came by for our reflexology session (I don’t know if I ever needed it more than after an all day craft’s fair) and pulled all the tension out of our bodies. Got calls from all 4 of my children, watched the sunset from the jacuzzi, then made an amazing coconut curry leek soup for dinner.  Light, refreshing and satisfying.