This year, my Mother's Day started out at 8am, when I heard the front door slam three times, and then 15 minutes later I heard noises from the kitchen. But it's Mother's Day, so you gotta stay in bed and pretend to be asleep. Apparently the boys were picking flowers outside and making breakfast. Blueberry muffins, yum!
This is so funny because he really did trick me!
M did his best making blueberry muffins, but unfortunately blueberry muffins are not a traditional breakfast in Pakistan, so he was a bit out of his level, here. He didn't realize that the paper muffin liners couldn't just be used on their own, they instead needed to actually line something. Like, say, a muffin pan. So instead of muffins, they were more like pancakes with paper liners stuck to the bottom. I stacked three up next to my tea cup for scale.
Tastes a little....flat? (Just as yummy, though!)
My present was a necklace. M made it himself - he's a "hobby" woodworker, but in reality he spends far more time on that than almost anything else in his life. Recently, a friend called me a "Woodworking Widow" and I thought that was a fantastic description. So the necklace is a wooden heart, hand carved from rosewood with a copper wire twisted to make it a pendant. It's beautiful and I loved it. Especially because that meant he'd been working on it for many, many days!
All in all a lovely start to the day. Unfortunately the morning turned into the daytime, and I was forced to do yardwork. And I saw a snake! And freaked out! A quit doing yardwork! So not a perfect Mother's Day after all.
How was YOUR Mother's Day?
