Mother's Day Weekend 2012

A quick re-cap because I'm tired and we leave for Germany in less than 3 days!!  Yikes (and I just started packing TONIGHT!)


Friday morning, Grandmommy and Papa took Tate to swim lessons because I was working 8-2.  They dropped him off at daycare and continued on with their day.  I made a couple of stops on the way to pick up sweet Tate at 3 for his 3:30 barber appointment!


As always, Tate did just great and this time he even got his hair edged (or edge trimmed).  I'm not real sure what this is called or even what it is, but apparently it's a big deal at the barbershop.  Mr. Kirk was very impressed that Tate was able to stay still and get it done.  He does look awfully sharp and put together around his ears and along his nape!  Such a big boy...hanging out with the men at the barbershop!


We ran a couple more errands and came home to prepare for some company Friday evening.  Two fellow SMCs...A who is from Austin who has a little girl one month younger than Tate and J from here with a 4 1/2 year old son.  A was in town for business, so didn't have her daughter with her.  It was our first time to meet.  J and I had met about 18 months ago when I went to my first and so far only local SMC gathering.  We had a great, great evening.  It so seems to me that A and I are raising our kids together though we had never met.  We are both part of the national SMC listserve, so we communicate on there alot in our Toddler Forum.  And we're FB friends, so we have virtual playdates for our kids all the time :) We hung out, the boys played (Tate has some sharing issues), Tate got a bath and put down for the night at 8 while they hung out downstairs.  We ordered pizza and enjoyed a yummy bottle of wine and some great conversation.  By the time they left around 10 I was full, happy and proud to call them my friends.


Saturday Tate and I went off to our music together class.  He just loves it.  And he's so sweet during class.  He insists on sitting in my lap the entire time with the exception of when it's time to play instruments.  When we have to stand up and dance around (think exhaustion for the adults) he insists upon me holding him.  I don't want to call him shy because he will talk; he just loves his mommy time I suppose :)  


We along with my sister Lindsey took my mom to lunch Saturday afternoon as we find Sunday to be crazy crazy.  She chose Barnaby's so the 4 of us had a lovely casual lunch.  She was generous enough to take Tate home with her, so I could do some shopping for myself for our trip to Germany.  I bought not one winter item this year.  It was never cool enough to need anything warm to wear for myself.  Tate of course had some fabulous new outfits, but I made do with what I already had.  And honestly it was chilly here for maybe 6 weeks, and those 6 weeks were off and on.


I picked him around 430 and we headed home for the evening.


I had planned on going to church on Sunday morning, but I was exhausted and opted to spend the morning in bed with my little guy.  Ok I dozed while he watched Thomas on my phone for about 45 minutes.  We lazily got out day started and then headed out to Hermann Park to ride the train.  Honestly, where else would we be on a gorgeous Mother's Day morning...the weather was just perfect.

We picked up Lindsey on our way home for lunch, then the 3 of us headed back down to my parents' house to surprise my mother for Mother's Day.  She was thrilled to see us.  We actually just laid about on the couch and talked and relaxed.  We came back into town a couple of hours later.  Tate and I then headed out to Chuy's for some dinner.  He enjoyed some chips while I enjoyed a yummy margarita.  Some queso, chicken nuggets and fajitas later we were on our way home.


So a nice quiet Mother's Day weekend.  Nothing spectacular, yet still amazing.  Amazing that I have the privilege of raising this sweet soul.  This absolute gift from God.  My life's wish has been granted.