Mother's Day

Ah, Mother's Day, the one day of the year where we set aside everything to pay homage to our moms. When I used to work retail I remember the single busiest day I ever remember working was the day before Mother's Day. People were hard core buying Garden Ridge stuff for their moms!

Most years on Mother's Day we pick a restaurant and all meet up for a nice lunch, but this year I thought it would be fun to host a Mother's Day brunch for my mom at our house. Isaac and I talked about how they have us out quite a bit for dinner, and we hardly have them over so Mother's Day seemed like the ideal day.

So tidy even my mom would approve!

After much deliberation we decided to do a late brunch. Basically just breakfast for lunch. Isaac made eggs (obviously), bacon, sausage, and I made French toast. Then like any good child who wore on their mother's last nerve when young, we also made mimosas. Really, booze is what all mom's want for Mother's Day, whether they realize it or not.

Eggs, sausage, french toast and strawberries!

Mimosa with strawberry and ice cube made of orange juice!

Everyone loves Mimosas!

It was a fun afternoon with my mom, step dad, John and my sister Rose. We ate, drank lots and sent my mom home with flowers, a bottle of wine and chocolate covered strawberries!

I'm already planning for next year's Mother's Day brunch, but I think I should up the food ante. Pancakes, crepes, waffles? So many options...


So happy Mother's Day Mom, to the woman who put up with and apparently loved me and my over dramatic, over emotional, smart ass because I watched too many sitcoms, waited until 30 to get married while both her sisters got to throw their daughters weddings and baby showers self.

Mom and John

May Day

Happy May Day everyone!

I admit, I'd never given much thought to May Day before, it's simply the first day of the month.  When the first of the month falls on a work day it's simply a very busy day of the week. I knew that it is more commonly celebrated in Europe for the coming of Spring and  I have of course heard of May Poles and knew that some people celebrated, but those were school children or...people who go to Renaissance Festivals.
People who have numerous reports to run and emails to send don't get to dance around a May pole on May 1st.

I started thinking there was more to it though when I was going through my day planner from Spain (a Christmas gift from Isaac and Carolina) and noticed that May first was shown as a holiday. Isaac has told me that Spain has numerous national holidays so I did a little investigating and May 1 in Spain is El Día Internacional de los Trabajadores or International Day of the the Worker. This fit with all the trending Twitter topics I saw related to May 1 which is apparently celebrated in many place around the world as Labor Day and a national holiday.

While doing my research I found a website called Holiday Insights and since I love calendars and holidays I enjoyed the list of all the holidays of May. A couple of my favorites are listed below.

First of all May is National Barbeque Month, National Hamburger Month and, interestingly National Salad Month. It is also Date Your Mate Month (insert shoulder shrug), and on a serious note Foster Care Month.
 
May houses, among others,  Wildflower Week, Nurses Week, Bicycle Week and Police Officer Week.

Besides May Day, May first is also Mother Goose Day.
May 2 is Brothers and Sisters Day
May 4 is International Tuba day for all you band geeks!
May 6 is No Diet Day which I can certainly get behind
May 8 is No Socks Day, easy enough to do
May 9 is Missing Sock Memorial Day (possibly my favorite named day ever)
May 12 is Birth Mother Day (I get the sentiment but it seems to be a bit redundant for many of us)
May 13 is Leprechaun Day ( a bit late maybe)
May 15 is National Chocolate Chip Day which I fully support
May 18 No Dirty Dishes Day which I guess also makes it Go Out to Eat day!

Those are just a few and my personal favorites. There are of course serious days as well as Mother's Day and you can check them all out here:  http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/may.htm


My May goals are simpler this month.

1.  Host Mother's Day at our house
2.  Focus on a couple work projects that I need to settle down and get done
3.  Read more for fun. It's something I miss doing and I'm going to try and make myself take   some time to start and here's the catch; finish a book!
4.  Get back on track with my dinner night; I've been a bit hit or miss recently

So hopefully everyone had a lovely May Day or Mother Goose Day if that's more your speed and Happy Brother and Sisters Day a few hours early!