Mother's Day came in like a beautiful breeze of love through our home. I am so glad to tell you that although we didn't go out on an extensive weekend get away, we did have a lovely tea here at the house. I have to tell you we did this for literally close to 60.00 we got a few things we needed for a full tea here at the house and some Ribs for the guys and dessert for later on in the evening.
Every Mother's Day is special BUT! we went all out to make this particular Mother's Day Special. It is our first year being married so we wanted to celebrate it by having my Mom over to our house which is literally across the street from my parents house. It is so nice. We bought a fun exciting white apron and then my Brother, my Husband and I picked out colors that we liked and put out hand prints on the new apron. We decided to start a new tradition! it's a fun one. We decided rather than hand prints in the ground that you can't see, or hand prints on the wall incased under glass that we would give my mom hand prints that she could wear.
I placed my hand prints in pink of course because you know how it is my favorite color. Garret placed his hands in Navy Blue and my Brother dark green. We printed the date on the apron and it is machine washable. The new tradition is that when my Brother get's married than my Sister in law will place her hands on the apron and when we have kids their kids and so forth. Every new hand print will dated so we can see how long we have been placing hands all over her artful apron.
We also gave her an encouragement jar. This jar was painted and then we took pieced of color paper, Navy Blue, Dark green and Pink with pieces of taffy and placed them inside the jar. So when she opens up the encouragement jar which is for only (MOM) no one else she can grab a piece of color taffy and a paper with a written word of encouragement and love.
I threw together a fancy tea filled with cup cakes, an assortment of fancy sandwiches and muffins along with little fruit candies and Turkish Delight, clotted cream which I whipped up from what I had on hand, cranberry scones and jam, raisin and nut bars so yummy, it was certainly a yummy feast to remember forever. Along with some fancy feast English Tea. We feasted all day long, rested in the late afternoon after all our feasting and celebrating and then played a fun family round of Phase 10. We really loved the game of Phase 10. In-fact we could play that game all day and all night long it catches you where you want to play until you finish all 10 phases. Once we had played a few phases it was 6:00 and time for Dinner as a family.
Garret made Ribs that had been in the crock pot all morning and all afternoon. The ribs were treat. We don't do ribs all the time so you can imagine it was a meal worth celebrating on Mother's Day. It certainly was a gift to the men in the room who had to sit at the tea with us ladies. We also had some really good beans with our meal. It was very! very! filling! After that we had some Dessert Angel Food cake with my homemade whip cream and frozen strawberries. While we were in the process of finishing up our Dessert we had Mother open up her gifts. She really liked her gifts a lot! I always try to go all out for her because I love her so much.
After that we played a few more rounds of Phase 10 and then we had to stop because the Bible A.D was coming on and we did not want to miss what we had already been recording for an hour. It was great! We had God time to finish up our lovely evening. It was a blessed day. The spirit of the Lord was all around and we could feel His love near.
We also wanted to celebrate this year and make it special because we didn't want to take this year for granted. After all each year is always different as my mother always told me and so you never know in which direction your road will take you so if you have the chance to celebrate, celebrate because time is ticking and it's never stopping. You don't get a do over and there is no second chances. You can never go back so celebrate everything while you can! Make every celebration count! After all parents aren't getting younger. I say let's cherish them while we can.
You never know how the road will twist and turn from one direction to the next. I celebrated countless Mother and Father's Day's with my Grandparents and now they are with the Lord. We can't take that time back but we sure can do everything we can to recapture the moment by looking back on what wonderful celebrations we did have. I have to think now that is why I don't want to lose the moment's I could be having while I could be having it. Once it's gone. You can't reach back and grab it again. Never take for Granted the joy of celebrating Mom and Dad while you still can no matter where you are in your journey with them.
Make memories. Create something you can look back on with a spirit of fondness.
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