This Mother's Day was fantastic. PJ started the day off superbly by making me breakfast in bed: delicious baked oatmeal (a recipe from my new sister-in-law) and an AMAZING omelette with red onions, tomatoes, avocados, mushrooms, and black olives. Delicious. Avery loved helping in the kitchen. Look how colorful!!
Then they gave me my "present" which was a fun Dollar Store gift of little sponges in the shapes of bugs that are in capsules---you submerse them in warm water and they "grow" before your eyes. Avery chose it, can you tell? My real present came later that night: a rice cooker/veggie steamer. We've been using it to make my friend Migi's famous rice---yum yum!
Later at church, all the women were given potted flowers for Mother's Day. Let me just say that I am not a fan of the potted plant as a gift in church. I appreciate the gesture, and find it very sweet. However, I cannot keep plants alive for the life of me!
Here's a classic example: first is the plant I was given on Mother's Day. So far, so good.
Next is a plant that I've had for about 2 months.... I've been watering it and giving it sun and everything, but it's clearly very dead.
I used to worry before I had kids that my lack of ability to keep a plant alive would translate into being a horrible mother too. But my mom reassured me that children cry when they're hungry. Thanks, mom. I appreciate the vote of confidence.
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I think the problem with those church flower gifts is that they need to be transplanted to a larger pot or put in the ground. And if you don't have a larger pot or a garden to plant it in, then you're just screwed. They shall die. I sneaked some extra flowers from church on Mother's day (6 total) and planted them in 2 large pots outside. They're doing very well. I don't do so well with indoor plants, though.
One year Warren was in charge of the mother's day "gift." He, too, thought chocolate was the best idea, but he decided to make flower shaped chocolate lolli pops. Needless to say, he was up till the wee hours of the morning finishing his project. I helped as much as I could but got tired.
Our new ward does all sorts of varieties of cheesecake and throws in a couple chocolate mousse cake, too. Not bad!
What a fabulous display of Mother's Day love!! Good luck with the potted plant...I don't have much luck either. Hopefully we will both find our inner 'green thumbs' some day.
In the meantime, it's nice to see you were given a special day. You certainly deserve the adoration!
Yay for Mother's Day! I can't keep plants alive either. You could probably suggest chocolate to your bishopric for next year and they'd be happy to do it...
I'm all for CHOCOLATE! (If you attend 2 wards, you get 2 chocolates!!)
I'm so with you about chocolate on Mother's Day. Come on, you can't eat a flower no matter how pretty it is (or if you do, it definitely does NOT taste like chocolate)! Happy belated mother's day!
I have the same issue with mothers day flowers. Don't they usually hand out african violets....the hardest plants to keep alive? I said "thanks, but no thanks" this year. Is that terrible? I like the chocolate idea!
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