In our house, we have an unwritten rule of sorts for Mother's Day, okay, let's be real, it's more than 1 rule. And by we, I mean my rule(s). 1. No cooking, cleaning, or housework. 2. I don't have to decide what we're going to do. 3. I get to spend the entire day with my husband and kids. Simply enough and my husband follows these rules and I love that. I'm selfish and I like Mother's Day to be all about me, but really, what mom doesn't?! He always does a great job with Mother's Day, last year we spent Mother's Day weekend in Duluth, but usually we go on what I like to call a "Mystery Trip". Back in the days when we could all fit in his 442, we'd go for a drive in that and always end up in a surprise location, usually the Coach outlet at Albertville. Then along came Stella and we no longer had enough room for all of us to ride in the 442.
This year for Mother's Day, the kids brought me breakfast in bed, which consisted of a brownie and a cup of coffee. Kevin successfully got all four kids ready for church himself so I could stay in bed as long as possible. When I was getting out of bed to take a shower and get ready myself, Adeline said "Get back in bed mom! It's Mother's Day, you can't get up yet!" I wish I could have listened to her and stayed in bed a little longer. Paul thought we should cancel church for Mother's Day. Then again, he thinks we should "cancel church" pretty much every Sunday, I think this is just a phase he's going through, at least I hope so, because 5-1/2 is too darn young to not want to go to church. He is fine once we get to church, just doesn't want to go, because it "takes too long." Kevin keeps trying to remind him, that God has time for us, we need to have time for him too. Boys.
Amelia and Paul enjoying their lunch!
My beautiful girls!
Even Vinny was allowed to come along for the ride!
Mr. Serious
Kicking back and relaxing!
We let the kids play for a bit on the playground after we had lunch and
then we got back in the Yukon and continued to head south to Kellogg and
we stopped at the
LARK Toy,
if you've never been there, I highly recommend checking it out,
especially if you have kids. The coolest thing about LARK is the
carousel, all of the animals on the carousel are hand carved. They also
have a small toy museum in the hallways, I think this was Paul's
favorite thing, he is still talking about it today and about all the
cool old toys. It was fun to see toys that my mom and aunt had that we
use to play with at my Grandparent's house when my sister and I were
young.
We can through Red Wing on our way home and decided to stop in Faribault at this great little Mexican joint and had dinner before we headed home. It was a great Mother's Day.
