Mother's Day 2021

Another year, another Mother's Day :) I got two very different gifts this year. I mean, I have my usual two gifts:

And they gave me colored cards with flowers and "I love you Mommy"s on them and it was great. But what I also got was sitting on the sidelines for 5 hours of sports. Yes yes I did. Starting at 7:30 am with Alex and flag football.

I was not the only mom to receive the precious gift of watching a team of 7 year olds being herded by a bunch of adults hoping that some semblance of a play would emerge. 

This is me, Katie and Corinne. At least it was sunny and we had coffee. 

After lunch the boys had back to back lacrosse games. 

#16 came and gave me a rose at halftime.

And then Alex had a game and *gasp* I got a rose from him too! 

My other gift was a photofacial. The sh*t is going down at age 40 everybody. I had the sun damaged spots zapped off my face and it's more exciting than I can tell you. Jason kind of incredulously couldn't believe that was what I wanted but he is smart and knows he couldn't really argue on Mother's Day. 

So that's post procedure, not too bad. The dark spots get darker initially. 

THEN we came home after lacrosse (the photofacial was actually the previous week) and had a nice  walk/rollerblade, a nice picture, and a nice dinner in front of my lacrosse roses.

And there you have it! Jason is usually not home for Mother's Day so that in and of itself was a huge treat. Well he did go to work in the morning and sent me this gem:

Psssh. Trying to steal my show ;) But he made it to the boys lacrosse games and it was great. I'll say, Ashton and Alex just keep getting bigger and bigger and we are having so much fun. They read me jokes and stories, tell me about what they are learning in school, and can never have too many hugs or kisses. They wear what I ask them to wear to school (this is NOT a small matter) and are kind, respectful boys. I get compliments on them all the time, which of course is the absolutely the biggest Mother's Day gift of all. They are the best yet!! :)