Happy Mother's Day - 2008

Sunday - May 11, 2008

I stayed up all night with Maddy and put together a scrapbook to Mam from my children. It started off with a toddler snapshot of me and a few pictures of all of us at my wedding and then it went into different shots of all nine grandchildren in order of age. She loved it. Her gift from me and Rodney was a gift certificate to Bedford Camera. She used it to purchase a mega camera that is an upgrade from the Nikon D40 that Rodney got for Christmas. Is is the first digital camera she has ever actually read the instruction manual for and plans to use - it's the D60. Some of the pictures today were taken with the new camera. We are all excited about the new addition.

Max is appropriately dressed!Three generations of women, mothers, and future mothers.
James, Jr. was in the house for dinner. He brought Mama a nice jewelry box. He always forgets I am a mother!
The kids were playing around after dinner.
By noon today, I had created a scrapbook, wrapped mother's day gifts and birthday gifts, cooked dinner, bathed two children and myself, cooked and served breakfast and then cleaned up after. Oh, and fed, changed diapers, and pumped breast milk in between. By 2, I was exhausted. I had planned dinner for 3 and sent a text, but when I didn't hear from anyone, I took a nap. Of course they showed up around 3. We didn't have dinner until 5:30 PM
Dinner was inspired by Sunny Anderson, the new spunky black chick on food network. We had Pan-fried meatloaf in tri-color pepper rings with spicy macaroni and cheese. It was really good. Everyone was expecting more. I was trying to keep it simple, but elegant, and different. They said they felt like they were in a restaurant - I think I achieved my goal!
For dessert we had a triple berry shortcake - inspired by Aryshona. Sunny's dessert was a Shake Shot - vanilla ice cream with spices and vodka. I made it and we, well I had the whole pitcher instead of Kisha's birthday cake. My first alcohol in almost a year! SMILE!!
Maddy had a special dish - formula warmed in a fancy mug and served in an Avent bottle.